Refugees and concentration camp victims return to Czechoslovakia after the World War II. Destroyed buildings and houses in a village in Czechoslovakia. Woman concentration camp victims, probably most of them Jewish Holocaust victims, leaning out of the windows of a bus after arrival in town. Close up of chalk written sign on bus reads, "Ravensbrück" to denote it as containing women from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Woman are greeted by their family members, who help them out of the bus. Several of those gathered are still wearing their striped concentration camp uniforms. A woman tearfully hugs a man. A steam locomotive with coal car reading, "U.S.A." moving slowly on train track. A Czechoslovakian soldier with rifle inspects tamper evident wire latch on train car. A man opens the door of a railroad train car, revealing bags of grain inside. Hand of inspector examining grain from shipment. Another railroad car door opened to reveal cotton or wool batting. Hand inspects wool or cotton fibers. Truck convoy through city streets. Man carrying crate marked "UNRRA" into building. Crate marked "Czechoslovakia" is placed on table. Hand shows small box of penicillin. Man walking with crutches enters building and is given warm coats. External view of "LAMPLOTA" building with "UNRRA" signs in windows, now set up as an UNRRA distribution center. A smiling Czechoslovakian girl hands a ration ticket to a woman behind the counter at an UNRRA distribution center. The woman cuts a part of the ration ticket off with scissors. Close up of UNRRA food supplies. View of a large wall of "UNRRA" crates.
Jewish resident in Ungvar (Uzhhorod), Province of Ruthenia, in Hungary (Carpatho-Ukraine). Jewish synagogue and other buildings along the sides of the street in the town. Jews walking on the street. Closeup views of Jewish people including a orthodox Jew teenage boy with side curls (payos). Other Orthodox Jewish men and boys with various hats and payos. The exterior of a building. Men discussing amongst themselves. A man bringing a hen to a Rabbi. Names on the stores including Adolf Mermelstein Textic. Closeup view of Jewish man smoking a pipe. (Footage is just before outbreak of World War 2.)
Parachute training in the German army early during World War II. A German soldier stands wearing a parachute. An airplane parked on a field. They are taught proper landing techniques by the instructors. Soldiers lying on the ground wearing parachutes. Men packing the parachutes. Other men learn the parachute packing techniques. An airplane in flight. A soldiers jumps and lands with the help of a parachute. Via loudspeaker, the instructor tells him not to wriggle while descending. A German airplane parked on the airfield.
Liberated slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. U.S. Army soldier walking on light cover of snow approaches a 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" (Translation: Work sets you free). Another nearby sign on a fence reads, "Vorsicht - hochspannung lebensgefahr" (Translation: Caution - High voltage. Will cause death.) Close-up view of electrified razor 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.
Revealing of Nazi atrocities at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, soon after its liberation in World War II. Soldiers and civilians standing on the field. They take out corpses different areas. Mutilated corpses on the field. Soldiers and civilians discuss amongst themselves. Bayonet and bullet wounds in the chest of the bodies of victims.
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