Scenes of Nazi brutality at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. View of small children at the camp showing the numbers on their arms. Procession of children moves in barbed wire enclosure. Close up of charred heads and remains of bodied in cremation oven. View of cans of Zyclon gas and other chemicals and drugs in a wooden box used to kill the victims. Bodies in deep trench, one dead woman with an unborn fetus beside her. The Russian commission examines deep grave filled with bodies after surrender of Nazi German SS guards in World War II.
View of the prisoners at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Prisoners demonstrate a scaffold, including the trap and noose. Close ups of prisoners who were professors and doctors. (World War II period).
Russian soldiers examine a warehouse at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland, soon after its liberation in World War 2. In the store house is evidence of Nazi German atrocities against prisoners. Images shown include high stacked bundles containing human hair, including braided locks; piles of false teeth and gold dental crowns, tools used for removing teeth from victims, a huge pile of thousands of pairs of eyeglasses, high piles of prisoner clothing, including clothing of young children such as a small shirt that is held and examined by Soviet soldiers; elevated view from ceiling of a giant warehouse room filled with clothing from prisoners; a giant pile of shoes from thousands of prisoners; piles of toothbrushes, hair brushes, and shaving brushes. View of a giant pile of suitcases and luggage from bearing stickers of residents from many European countries.
Common burial ceremony of the victims of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Women weep beside grave. A band plays the funeral march. Choir boys follow the band. Many coffins are carried to large mass grave as hundreds attend ceremonies. Priests and flag bearers attend. Women weep as the huge grave is covered. Doctors examine some of the victims and survivors. An emaciated young man who had been a prisoner of the Nazi Germans. A young boy liberated prisoner with a severely injured right foot.
Scenes of Nazi brutality among atrocity victims at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. View of picture books of healthy children. Then views of sickly and injured infants and children from atrocities at the hands of Nazi Germans. Doctors examine sickly children. A young girl with leg injuries. A group of men with swollen ankles, all evidences of brutality. A young woman who is emaciated. A young boy with a head wound and walking disability. Film ends with photographs of the Nazi officers and concentration camp personnel who are responsible for conditions at the camp.
Events related the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Flashbacks of a variety of Nazi crimes against humanity during World War II. Europe during 1945. War devastation: buildings and cities laid in waste, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters searching for the causes of the war and of the immediate human suffering. Deprived children and adults weep, starve and beg on the streets. November 21, 1945, Nuremberg, Palace of Justice, seat of the International Military Tribunal. List shows the names of the convicted Nazi criminals. Chief prosecutor from the United States, Robert Houghwout Jackson, makes the opening statement of the prosecution. He presents Count 1 of the indictment a conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against peace and humanity. He makes the statement that criminals who have done injustice to the laws of humanity must be brought to justice. Stenographers wearing headphones take down notes. Defendants stand in their dock including Herman Goring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel. Faces of the convicted criminals. Scenes from mass burial of victims from German bombing of Coventry, England. Scenes from the end of World War 2, with women weeping and civilian victims of war in Europe, including Germany, seen scavenging on streets for food. Women and hungry children scrape out trash cans and metal lids for bites of food. Desperate civilians cut down remaining tree stumps from formerly tree-lined streets to use for fuel. A group of men and women struggle in a food relief line in Italy.
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