Scenes at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, 4 days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Prisoners demonstrate atrocities committed by Nazi German captors: Three prisoners stand. A bench placed nearby. One man climbs on a stool and demonstrates the tying of a double looped rope around a victim's neck, designed to strangle the prisoner. The man demonstrating the victim then falls to the ground. Another liberated prisoner then demonstrates the use of a wooden club to hit the head of the fallen victim. A damaged club. Elevated view of Buchenwald Concentration Camp buildings as seen from a tower or high gate. View of some of the mounted searchlights at the camp.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany. Footage from 5 days after the camp's liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Elevated view of crowd around a band playing in the prison courtyard. A captive German SS (Schutzstaffel) soldier with a battered face. Another German Nazi SS soldier prisoner held by the Allies. Mrs Walter Warnstedt, wife of the camp hangman. A Ukrainian SS man.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany in World War 2, soon after its liberation in World War II. Hungarian prisoner Max Diamond. A Bavarian political prisoner. Liberated French prisoners stand in front of the prison. A German political prisoner. Prisoners wear black cap with red, white and black band. Red triangle mark on shirts indicates political prisoners. Prisoner with red triangle badge and number 43175. Wired pillar in front of prison.
Elevated view of bomb damaged buildings and wreckage of the Carl Zeiss Factory, in Jena, Germany, near Weimar. Bombed out factory buildings and interiors. Landscape shows many bombed out buildings in Jena ara following Allied air raids during World War 2
The Dachau Concentration Camp in Bavaria, Germany. Prisoners mill the camp street. Numerous prisoners walk in the premises. Building in the background. Trees on either side of the street. (World War II period).
The Dachau Concentration Camp in Bavaria, Germany. U.S. soldiers and prisoners stand in front of the prison gate. A sign on the gate reads 'ARBEIT MACHT FREI'. The gates open and a car enter. Prisoners watch as a goods truck enters the prison gates. View from inside guard tower of mounted German machine gun in foreground pointed out toward camp yard. Prisoners move about in the camp. (World War II period).
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