French civilians gather outside the Notre Dame Cathedral after the liberation of Paris during World War 2. The Notre Dame de Paris (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France). People around the building. A few small buildings are seen near the Cathedral. A crowd at the entrance and the area in front of the Cathedral. M4 Sherman tanks move in a line. A tank has the letters ' Franche-Comte' on it. Soldiers on the tanks. People gathered around to welcome the soldiers.
During liberation of France in World War 2: As General Charles De Gaulle reaches the Hotel DeVille in Paris, France, snipers begin firing from the rooftops. The crowd takes cover as the soldiers return tank fire aimed at the snipers. A motorcade arrives on the road. A motorcycle in the front followed by two motor vehicles. People on either side of the road. People on the buildings on the side of the road. General Charles De Gaulle with other officers. The crowd on the side of the road takes cover as the soldiers with guns fire at snipers. Several soldiers and officers in uniform on the road. Men and women on the roadside watch. Few men and women go outside through the entrance gate. Armed men at the entrance gate. Soldiers on the road. A woman with a French flag. Motorcycles on the road. Officers and soldiers watch. Stains of blood on the road. (World War II period).
Evidence of holocaust atrocities in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. German civilians in Gardelegen Germany carrying crosses for 1,100 fresh graves for victims of the holocaust at Gardelegen. The German citizens walking on the streets carrying the crosses. Buildings in view. Scenes from various liberated concentration camps in Germany. A crowd around a liberated concentration camp building. The Allied army soldiers enter a gate of a camp. Soldiers enter through gates of several different camps with sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on Dachau Concentration Camp gate. Scenes of happy liberated inmates at various camps. Two men walk in front of a crowd entering a liberated camp. Liberated concentration camp inmates in striped prison uniforms smile and some wave. Some of them appear to be very young men or older boys. Men cheering. U.S. Army soldier leans head out of watch tower and looks down on concentration camp field and barracks. Freed inmates around and on top of a concentration camp barracks building. Allied soldiers escort horse drawn wagon with potatoes in it through camp as inmates scramble to gather food. Starved man on a street scraping spilled food of some kind from the ground and eating it. Soldiers bring out body of liberated prisoners from barracks and dungeons. A soldier carries an injured person in a stretcher. Men carry emaciated and injured victims into a vehicle. A victim man lying on the ground. Physicians provide medical aid to victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Doctors examine a man, a woman, and several starving child victims.
Various concentration camps after liberation in Germany during World War 2. A few U.S. officials interrogate the commander and chief medical officer at the Hadamar Mental facility. Evidence of patient abuse, experiments, and extermination is reviewed. The bodies of the victims of the murder. The body of a woman. Soldiers carry bodies and place them on the ground. The bodies of prisoners who were starved to death and those tortured to death. Bodies piled up near a building. Bodies of victims at Dachau. Narrator accounts and scenes show murdered prisoners at many camps. The bodies of prisoners in Landsberg Concentration Camp. The dead bodies of prisoners in various concentration camps who were killed by burning, shooting, starvation or poison gas. The dead body of a mature human infant embyro. The dead bodies of prisoners who were shot or starved to death in concentration camps including Landsberg, Dachau, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, Leipzig, Auschwitz. Piles of dead prisoners who were burnt to death by high voltage wires. A few women are seen who survived the torture in the camps.
Gravely wounded and sick liberated concentration camp victims in Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Several wounded women in a camp after liberation being attended to by physicians. At Auschwitz, children who lost their parents walk along a fenced corridor. The children show tattoos on their arms that are marks for identification. At other camps, two men who were survivors, one man whose eye was gouged out by the Nazis. Men behind barbed wire. Tortured men who could not walk or crawl being helped by soldiers. Naked, starved liberated victims stand in a line to receive aid. Man helps a starved man to walk. A man crawls. Bodies of prisoners who died . Officials beside the bodies.
German people compelled by Allied forces to visit liberated concentration camps in Germany during World War 2. Citizens enter camp facilities and see horrors of holocaust. They emerge visibly shaken. View of some survivors of the camp. The Nazi leaders and officials made to visit the camp. The officials visit the dungeons where the prisoners were tortured. Heaps of bodies in a dungeon. The officials cover their noses with their hands and come out of the dungeon. German citizens of Weimar in lines waiting to visit nearby Buchenwald Concentration Camp. German citizens walking on roads, passing a sign board for "Adolf Hitler Strasse" (Adolf Hitler Street). Citizens walk toward the camp and are seen entering through the gates of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The corpses laid in coffins arranged in a line. German men, women, and children walk in a line by the side of the coffins. Children hold their noses. Men and women come out of the camp shaken by the experience. The people are made to walk by piles of dead bodies of atrocity victims loaded in trucks . Dead bodies of children and men in piles. People walk along the side of a road past a long row of the bodies of camp victims. Flashback scene to German crowd cheering the Nazi Party at a rally in Nuremberg, and various rallies hailing Adolf Hitler. Scene of large group of Germans marching and carrying crosses for graves.
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