In accordance with secret orders for the Military Technical Institute at Peenemunde, development of the A-4 guided missile (V-2) was undertaken in 1942. Entrance to the large assembly hanger building. Large doors slide open showing German missile on a stand. A-4 is moved to firing position by a large crane. Two German scientists work on the steering section of A-4. Technicians work on the uncovered fuel section of A-4 missile. Live static firing of the missile rocket engine while it is constrained vertically in a stand. Intense fire and smoke. (World War II period).
Removal of bodies from Dachau concentration camp after Allied liberation in World War II. Funeral ceremony of the victims of the camp. Civilian men walking in front of horse carts carrying dead bodies. Carts carry dead bodies for a funeral ceremony. Piles of dead bodies in some of the carts are covered by clothes. Several carts on the road.
Aerial view of a German town Regensburg in Bavaria. The houses and buildings of the town surrounded by a river. Railway yard and marshaling area destroyed by bombing from the Allied bombers. Wrecked wagons and freight cars, shattered railway tracks. Harbor at Regensburg with sunken boats. Buildings on banks of river, bridge on the river. (World War II period).
Leipzig concentration camp of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Surviving inmates of the camp talk to Allied military soldiers. Dead bodies of prisoners shot by guards. Dead bodies of prisoners burnt alive. Dead bodies of those who managed to escape the burning chamber and were thrown into barb wires carrying current. German civilians carrying Holy Cross and shovels, moving for the burial of the dead by the orders of Allied military commanders. Russian women freed from a camp, watch from outside the camp.
Munster concentration camp for Belgian prisoners during World War II. The buildings, prisons in the compound of this camp. Man gives a demonstration of torturing methods adopted by the Nazi German guards at the camp. A man tied from arms with a pole and then beaten with a barbed wire wrapped stick. Another man bound by chains and barbed wires and beaten. Impressions of chains and barbed wires on the prisoners. Use of a screw driven two part pressing device to crush the hands and fingers of a prisoner. Survivors show scars of repeated beatings and tortures. Wounds of beating and cigarette burns on thighs and lower body portions of Belgian men and women liberated from the prison camp.
Nordhausen concentration camp used as slave labor camp by the Nazis during World War II. The camp after Allied forces arrive. Corpses lying all over the ground. More dead bodies kept under miserable conditions. The leaned, starved and brutally tortured dead bodies full of wounds and scars. Allied soldiers and Red Cross men take survivors for relief and medical aid to Allied hospitals. Most of them are too weak to move. Weeping inmates eat food. Seriously injured carried in ambulances. More dead bodies, all brutally killed. German civilians carry dead bodies. Civilians move with shovels to dig common graves and mass burials of the 2500 victims of this camp. Dead bodies in mass graves.
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