Views of Nazi facilities that had been used by the Gestapo to torture and kill prisoners during the German occupation of Paris, France, in World War 2. A long low tunnel is seen (that had been a rifle range for the Ministry of Aviation). French soldiers and Partisans examine wooden stakes and hand prints of victims on the walls. Closeup of the uniformed French officers examining the wooden stakes where prisoners were executed by firing squads. Numerous bullet holes and damage is evident in the stakes. A blindfold and rosary are found on one stake. In another area, the officers examine wooden coffins ready for use. In the courtyard, a large excavation is shown where numerous bodies were dug up. Wooden boxes are seen that contained bodies.
U.S. Airmen killed by Nazis in France during World War II. Dead bodies of U.S. Airmen, all shot in head lying on the road to Gambsheim, in France. Pocket diaries and Holy Cross on an airman's dead body. White cloth with spots of blood covers the face of dead. Dead bodies scattered, all over a ground.
A sign identifies the village of Bande, in Belgium, during World War 2. View of snow-covered village rooftops from a distance. Closeup of a cafe in the village. Bodies of 34 young men from the village are seen lying in the cellar of the cafe. All had been executed on Christmas Eve, by a unit of the Nazi SD (Sicherheitsdienst) affiliated with the SS (Schutzstaffel) in retribution for the deaths of three German soldiers killed by Belgian maquis (Resistance fighters) on September 5, 1944. (Bande had been occupied by U.S. forces soon thereafter, but was retaken by German forces in the December Ardennes offensive, setting the stage for the massacre.) British troops that re-occupied the village on January 10th, 1945, are seen removing the bodies from the cellar and placing them on the snow-covered street. Wooden coffins are stacked up at the side of the building. Some closeups of the victims are seen. Scene shifts to a snowy field where the bodies are on the ground and men wrap them in sheets and place them in coffins. Closeup of British soldiers placing cover on a coffin and affixing an identification tag on it. Next, the Village Priest presides over a mass funeral for the victims, as villagers stand along the line of coffins. Women in black grieve over the victims. British soldiers carry the coffins to army trucks.The villagers follow behind the trucks as they proceed to the graveyard for burial. The coffins are placed on the ground at the cemetery.
Civilians including men, women and children killed by Nazi soldiers in Stavelot, Belgium during World War II. Caskets with the dead bodies. Lumps of dead bodies at a place of shelter blown by Nazis (the civilians had taken refuge in basements and the Nazi soldiers had thrown grenades into the basements). Frozen dead bodies of women and small children. A woman weeps. Common grave for burial of all victims. Man brings stiffened dead body of a small child. A man checks names of the dead and priest says last prayers before burial.
Arnsdadt concentration camp which housed Russian and Polish prisoners of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Tents and fenced boundaries at the camp. German civilians dig common grave and bury the dead. U.S. soldiers guard them. Dead body of a United States army man shot in forehead by the retreating Germans. Ground covered with dead bodies of the victims of atrocities at this concentration camp.
Leipzig concentration camp of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Surviving inmates of the camp talk to Allied military soldiers. Dead bodies of prisoners shot by guards. Dead bodies of prisoners burnt alive. Dead bodies of those who managed to escape the burning chamber and were thrown into barb wires carrying current. German civilians carrying Holy Cross and shovels, moving for the burial of the dead by the orders of Allied military commanders. Russian women freed from a camp, watch from outside the camp.
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