Shows emaciated prisoners seated amidst rubble at a concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany. Scenes of freed prisoners eating and talking. Prisoners and corpses inside prison barracks. A starved prisoner eats an egg. Decaying cadavers of victims on filthy prison floors. Prisoners laying down on makeshift bedding or bunk areas. (World War II period).
German civilians carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen,Germany. Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. A Catholic chaplain conducts burial rites at an altar set up on the hood of an U.S. Army jeep. Sick and dying prisoners are carried on stretcher to ambulances by U.S. medics and military police of the 3rd Infantry Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. (World War II period).
Shows Major General J Lawton Collins, Commander of U.S. VII Corps and U.S. Third Army soldiers at a Nazi German Vergeltungswaffe V- weapon plant (V-1 and V-2 missiles) in Nordhausen, Germany. General Collins and the soldiers examine dead bodies of the slave laborers and inspect the ruins of the rocket weapons plant in their jeeps. Shows a young slave worker victim's corpse with name and nationality written on his chest. (World War II period).
U.S. Army soldiers inquire Russian civilians near a wrecked M24 Chaffee light tank of the U.S. 13th Armored Division at Ellerstrabe in Hilden,Germany. The soldiers interview a Russian eyewitness. (World War II period).
A U.S. Army Captain examines bodies of American soldiers of the 46th Tank Battalion, 13th Armored Division, killed when their Sherman M4 tank was struck by panzerfaust anti-tank weapons and 20mm fire, on April 17, 1945, in the final days of World War 2, in Europe. The wrecked tank and human remains are seen at the intersection of Ellerstraße & Hülsenstraße, in Hilden Germany. Closeup of the Captain looking closely at the dog tags of one dead soldier. Next, he is seen checking the dog tags of other dead tank crew members, as local German townspeople watch from nearby. He and another officer cover the bodies with a large tarpaulin.
View of a huge German Swastika emblem carved in stone at the top of the Tribune at Zeppelinfeld (Zeppelin Field) in Nuremberg, Germany. U.S. Army engineers place demolition charges on the Swastika emblem in order to destroy it. A big explosion blows the emblem into pieces.
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