Post-liberation views of Nazi atrocities at the Hadamar Institute (Hadamar Euthanasia Centre) in Hadamar, Germany towards the end of World War II. American officers visit the building where, under the guise of an insane asylum, 35,000 people were murdered. The visitors examine emaciated patients. Head of the American War Crimes Investigation Team, Major Herman Bolker, leads the examination. In the graveyard attached to the institution, bodies are exhumed for autopsies. Men wear gas masks as they lift corpses out of holes and line up bodies. Major Bolker list data. The head of the institute, Dr. Adolf Wahlmann and the head male nurse, Karl Willig, are questioned about the use of morphine, before being led off to await a trial.
Comite Francais d'Assistance aux refugees in France after annexation of Austria by Germany prior to World War II. Relief being given to Austrian refugees in the form of cash. The refugees sign receipts. They wait in a lobby and show papers to officials of the committee. A meeting of the committee's council shows former commanding officer of the Republican Guards Colonel Duriex, President of the Committee Albert Levy, Managing Director of the Committee Gaston Kahn and the Secretary General Raymond Raoul Lambert. The committee discusses the problem of Jewish settlement in the world over a map.
Austrian refugees arrive at a center run by a relief committee in Amsterdam, Netherlands after the annexation of Austria by Germany prior to World War II. The refugees enter the Amsterdam Headquarters. Refugees eating at a table. Refugees showing Austrian passports to a porter. A refugee shows a Jewish passport with a 'J' on it. Secretary of the Committee, Miss Pereira, examines the passports. The refugees enter the relief headquarters.
A Dutch Jewish hospital in Amsterdam, Netherlands prior to World War II. Victims of Nazi German brutality lying on beds in a hospital ward. Nurses treat the patients. A nurse bathing a patient's head. A sign of Dutch Jewish Hospital.
A Jewish settlement camp near the Zuiderzee, Netherlands prior to World War II. The Jewish settlement camp is on reclaimed land near the Zuiderzee where the Jews learn carpentry, cabinet making and farming to equip them for life in Palestine. Jewish men in a wash room. Jewish men eating in a community restaurant. Men walk out of the community building. Men working in a greenhouse. Cooks in a kitchen. Women peeling potatoes. The Jews working in a carpentry shop.
U.S. infantry soldiers and trucks advance in Regensburg, Germany during World War II. Infantrymen and trucks of U.S. 65th Infantry Division cross a bridge, drive along streets and outskirts of the town. Close-up views of soldiers crossing the bridge, some smiling for the camera.
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