An officer of the British Royal Artillery, in charge of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany at Lower Saxony, Germany. The officer speaks after liberation about the conditions at the camp when Allied forces reached there. Seventeen thousand prisoners buried by them. The prisoners had no food for six days and they ate turnips. The officer informs about the cook house since organized at the camp. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230. (World War II period).
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany in Lower Saxony, Germany after liberation by British Army during World War II. Narrator identifies Nazi officer by the name Kramer, as the camp commander, who is taken into custody by British troops. Guards of camp arrested by British Army. Prisoners inside the camp starved and sick, including some in a bunk house. Liberated woman weeps and kisses hand of a British soldier. Dead bodies of atrocity victims lie on grounds. Dead bodies of young women. Tortured and severely beaten dead bodies. Prisoner numbers tattooed on the arms of dead bodies. SS guards ordered to toss corpses in trucks. Immense number of dead bodies kept on open ground. SS guards toss dead bodies in a large open mass grave. German women guards at the camp walk out of a barracks, ordered to bury the dead. They drag dead bodies and throw them in a mass grave. A bulldozer sweeps piles of dead bodies in mass grave. Its operator covers his face. Pile of dead bodies swept into a mass grave. A U.S. Navy signed affidavit of authenticity of the footage concludes the clip. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230
Allied military and some civilians gather for a ceremony at the ruins of Saint Martin's Cathedral, in Ypres Belgium, destroyed by Germany in World War 1. Scots Guards in kilts are seen among the assembled military. A ladder is seen and something is being raised by a hoist in the background,as preliminary cleanup is being undertaken. Scene shifts to point of view footage from a moving rail car on the Suspension Railway (Schwebebahn) in Barmen-Elberfeld Germany. At first it travels above a street in the city. Then it is seen moving over the Wupper River, in the Elberfeld region, as another suspension rail train approaches from the opposite direction. It continues traveling along (above) the waterway. (Note: Barmen-Elberfeld was re-named Wuppertal in 1930. The Schwebebahn is still in operation today, and is the oldest operating transportation monorail in the world. It is now called the Wuppertal Suspension Railway. Its original full name is: "Electric Elevated Railway (Suspension Railway) Installation, Eugen Langen System" (Anlage einer elektrischen Hochbahn (Schwebebahn), System Eugen Langen)).
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Operations. APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) cross Main River in Germany. Wooded area in the background. Men aboard the Armored Personnel Carrier. The APC climb riverbank and move across field. Trees in the foreground.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Operations. Mobile assault bridge vehicles move into position to form bridge over Main River in Germany. Wooded area in the background. Vehicles cross bridge. Men loaded on the vehicles. The vehicles move towards enemy held hill. Men stand in the foreground.
Famous tourist destinations and architecture in Thuringia, Germany, before World War 2. Various buildings seen in Erfurt, the principal city of Thuringia. View of the Former Governor’s Residence, now the Thuringia State Chancellery building, in Hirschgarten (Thüringer Staatskanzlei Regierungsstraße 73, 99084 Erfurt, Germany). People and vehicles move outside the palace. Views of the Erfurt Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of St. Mary (Dom St. Marien Domstufen 1 99084 Erfurt). Maria Gloriosa bell hangs in the central tower of the Cathedral. View of the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen (Meissen Albrechtsburg Castle Domplatz 1 01662 Meißen).
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