Arnstadt Concentration Camp in Germany captured by American forces in April, 1945 near the end of World War II. Prisoners were mainly Poles and Russians. View from the camp gate to tents which were used to house prisoners. Dogs were used to guard the prisoners. Shown is A dog kennel for a watch dog. Local German citizens had exhumed he bodies of concentration camp victims from their original mass grave, and reburied them in a trench further away from the town because of the stench. Now they were disinterring them again under supervision of United States Army soldiers. A corpse with crushed head. Corpses lying outside the graves from which they have just been exhumed. Bodies laid out on the ground are viewed by several U.S. soldiers
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. The group includes Frances E. Walters from Pennsylvania, Eugene Worley from Texas, Carter Manasco and Albert Rains from Alabama, Henry W. Jackson from Washington, Earl Wilson from Indiana, Marion Bennet from Missouri, Gordon Canfield from New Jersey, Major General Vanier of the Canadian Army and Major Walter Mosmiller of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces) who is in charge of the tour. The group views piles of dead bodies and crematoriums. The group poses in front of a memorial.
The 102nd Work Hungarian Regiment after its surrender and United States troops in Cham, Germany towards the end of World War II. 102nd Work Hungarian Regiment soldiers with a large number of horse-drawn vehicles move along a road. A Hungarian officer enters the headquarters of U.S. Brigadier General William Holbrook and comes out with him.
United States troops in Cham, Germany towards the end of World War II. Several U.S. soldiers who were formerly prisoners of the Germans are given rations and cigarettes by the passing Americans. One of the soldiers offers a German guard a cigarette.
German General Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt in Weilheim, Germany after his capture by the U.S. Army towards the end of World War II in Europe. General Field Marshal Rundstedt speaks with Commander of U.S. XXI Corps Major General Frank W. Milburn. General Field Marshal Rundstedt steps from a car and enters a building. Interiors of a room shows General Field Marshal Rundstedt smoking. He walks out of the building followed by U.S. officials.
The Dachau concentration camp in Germany towards the end of World War II.. A U.S. soldier removes a German sign 'Strasse der SS' from a doorway. A statue of a Nazi soldier in the camp.
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