Penig concentration camp of the Nazis in Germany during World War II. Soldiers of the 6th armored division of the United States Army at rescue and liberation operation. Hungarian women inmates at the camp. American doctors examine wounds of the women inmates. Emaciated, starved inmates in unhygienic conditions suffer from various diseases. Soldiers carry and escort victims by ambulance and military vehicles to a nearby hospital of the German Air Force. German doctors and nurses forced by Allied soldiers to attend the inmates. Smiling women inmates
Hadamar concentration camp in Germany visited after World War II. Major Herman Bolker and his sub-ordinates step out of a U.S. military truck and move into the camp. Disease-stricken, weak and starved prisoners at the camp. Guards dig a common grave and pull out corpses of the victims of this concentration camp. Doctors and priests at the place. Guards make notes about the dead. Chief physician of the camp, Adolf Wahlmann, with head nurse, Karl Willig, are interrogated by Major Walker. He shows a bottle of morphine, as morphine injection was commonly used to murder the inmates. Soldiers arrest Wahlmann.
Paderborn concentration camp in Germany visited after World War II. The 2nd division of the 9th Army of the Allied military forces arrive at the camp with their tanks and weapons. The liberated Russian prisoners raid food stores for stealing baking flour kept at the stores. Prisoners break the door of store. Man eating baking flour. Men fight over a little flour. Soldiers control the prisoners.
Munster concentration camp in Germany after World War II. The 9th Army of the Allied military forces arrives at the camp with their tanks and weapons and liberates prisoners of the camp. An inmate washes his wounds. Inmates cook food for them, supplied by the Allied troops. The liberated French and Belgian prisoners. Water tanker for prisoners. A happy old man smiles.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. Motorcade of President Truman returning after visit to the damaged city of Berlin in Germany. A continuous line of refugees walking along the express highway from Berlin. Man and woman carry their luggage on a cart, their small children push the cart from behind. Signboard indicating 'Zehlendorf 1000 m'. Another signboard indicating the region of the 'US Berlin District'.
Alsos operation in Germany. Brandenburg gate in Berlin soon after the end of World War 2. Soviet Russian motorized unit passes on road. Views of Berlin main areas as seen from a moving vehicle. Ruins of bombing seen in city and crowd lined up on roadside. Citizens clearing rubble of buildings. American unit passes through Brandenburg gate near citizens in a black market area. Troops and crowd gathered outside a building. American officers walk out of a building at conclusion of the Alsos mission.
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