More than 200 political prisoners burnt alive whereas some shot dead or electrocuted as they ran to welcome American troops at Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. The camp comprised of mainly Russian, Czech and Polish prisoners. Dead prisoners near the barbed wires. Russian slave women look at them from across barbed wire fence. (World War II period).
Hungarian women prisoners examined by doctors at Penig concentration camp in Germany in World War 2. Doctors examine patients with gangrenous wounds. Prisoners taken away on litters to a former German Air Force hospital by Red Cross. Nazi forced to look after the victims. Patients treated by American doctors in a hospital.
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Military policemen guard the area as civilians and military personnel enter the court house. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence reads from a document. Justice Francis Biddle and Henri D de Vabres speak. Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess and other defendants in prisoner's dock. Russian justices and justice Brikett at the bench. Robert H Jackson, American prosecutor at the table. (World War II period).
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Kietel sit in prisoners docks as judge sentences them. Wilhelm Kietel, Alfred Rosenberg, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Wilheim Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. Chief Russian prosecutor General RA Rudenko at the prosecution table. Thomas J Dodd and Sir Hartley Shawcross at the prosecution table. Alfred Jodl, Franz Von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Hans Fritzsche and Constantin Von Neurath. A door closed by a military police. (World War II period).
Life in the city of Cologne , Germany after Allied occupation during World War II. A sign reads ' Koln' Damaged Cathedral in cologne as a result of Allied bombings. Interiors of the Cathedral. A severely damaged rail road station in the city. Hohenzollernbrucke bridge across the river Rhine. German civilians around a bulletin board as thy read news about the war. A man waits for a street car. A damaged street car. People gathered outside a shelter. Women cook food at a community kitchen. Allied armies supply water to the people. Water being filled in containers. Women wash clothes. Food being looted from Nazi Army kitchen. People carry food crates and bags from the kitchen.
A salt mine in Merkers, Germany. A sign in German outside the salt mine. An American soldier guards the gates of the mine. One hundred tons of Nazi gold bullion, jewels, stolen paintings and art, silver and currency discovered at the mine. Soldiers look at silver spoons, gold bullion and rare and expensive paintings. Bags full of currency from European countries. Two million dollars of American currency in boxes. Cash bags piled up at the mine.
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