Liberated slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. Sign at the gate of the Flossenbürg Concentration camp. The sign reads: "Prisoners Happy End. Welcome" (setup after liberation). Electrified wire fences. Guard towers and steel gates. Stone plaque on gate with German text "Arbeit macht frei". Close-up view of electrified wire fence. Long view inside gate looking up toward edge of camp. Soldiers stand at the gate of the building. A horse-cart arrives.
Atrocities at slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. Interior of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp soon after its liberation. Four naked, starved prisoners. Two prisoners are Jewish, one is French and one is Polish. Numbers tattooed on their chests. Camera captures extreme emaciated condition of liberated prisoners.
Slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. Former French prisoner at the camp shows a soldier through the underground crematorium at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. Former prisoners in crematorium carry out bones and ashes from the furnace. They dump the bones and ashes in the nearby pit. Sign over the crematorium reads: 'Disinfection'.
Slave labor camps in Flossenburg, Germany, soon after liberation during World War II. U.S. soldiers and civilians stand on the field. They take out corpses from different areas of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. Mutilated corpses on the field. Bayonet and bullet wounds on the heads and chest of the bodies. A cross pendant on a dead body, a victim of Nazi atrocities.
View from an overlooking hillside of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, in the closing days of World War 2. Camera pans over rows of large barracks in the distance. A water supply pond is in the foreground. Scene shifts to Brigadier General Milton B. Halsey, of the U.S. 97th Infantry Division, as he strides into the camp, accompanied by a full Colonel and other officers on his staff. A civilian photographer stands near the iron gates of the camp. The General pauses to speak with another officer, who had arrived at the camp earlier (possibly with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment). Halsey and staff, now accompanied by several more officers and soldiers, walks past an area from which white smoke is rising. They pass clothing and equipment piled on the ground. An officer leads them and points out features of the camp. They descend steps beneath steel grating and look at a wooden cell with bunks in it. Next, they are seen, outdoors, conversing near a fence line. Several civilians are now with them. Halsey and his staff retrace their path underground and ascend steps from under the steel gratings. They pause near a wooden barracks building and then continue across a camp yard, where several vehicles are parked, and board waiting jeeps, in which they drive away. General Halsey's jeep displays a star on its bumper. (His driver has been identified as Glen E. Miller of Calhoun, Illinois.)
Slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. Soldiers and civilians stand on a field. They take out corpses from different areas. Mutilated corpses on the field. They dig out the bodies of the slave laborers, killed during the evacuation of camp.
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