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 guards at the camp. A man tied from arms with a pole and then beaten with a barbed stick. Another man bound by chains and barbed wires and beaten. Impressions of chains and barbed wires on the prisoners. Pressing 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.
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.
Hanover concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Allied forces arrive at the camp. Inmates given food and clothes by Allied soldiers. Inmates lined for soup. Leaned starved inmates eat the soup, some of them weep. Inmates too weak to stand or move, lying sick in their barracks. Men take out dead bodies from the barracks. A Sergeant of the AMG (Allied Military Government) checks the list and the inmates at the camp. Photographs of starved and tortured inmates taken.
The Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Red Cross trucks and relief from Switzerland reach the concentration camp. Among the 2000 survivors of this camp, almost a 1000 are boys of age fourteen or less. The weak, starved and tortured inmates from various European countries, at the camp. Old men and children at the camp. Stacks of dead bodies at crematory, in a truck and at the experimental building. All have prisoner number and nationality tattooed on their stomach. A weapon used for torturing. Crematory ovens with bones and remains of dead inside the ovens. 1200 civilians of a town Weimar nearby the camp sent on a forced tour of the camp. A group of smiling civilians, men and women walk towards the camp. Civilians enter the camp and see the display of articles made of human skin. Lampshades, paintings and articles of human skin and bones. Human heads shrunk to one fifth of their normal size. Women faint and are carried out. Civilians visit the ill-conditions of prisoners at surviving sections of the camp. Truckloads of dead bodies of the victims of this camp.
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