Post-liberation views of Nazi atrocities at the Hadamar Institute (Hadamar Euthanasia Centre) in Hadamar, Germany towards the end of World War II. American officers visit the building where, under the guise of an insane asylum, 35,000 people were murdered. The visitors examine emaciated patients. Head of the American War Crimes Investigation Team, Major Herman Bolker, leads the examination. In the graveyard attached to the institution, bodies are exhumed for autopsies. Men wear gas masks as they lift corpses out of holes and line up bodies. Major Bolker list data. The head of the institute, Dr. Adolf Wahlmann and the head male nurse, Karl Willig, are questioned about the use of morphine, before being led off to await a trial.
U.S. infantry soldiers and trucks advance in Regensburg, Germany during World War II. Infantrymen and trucks of U.S. 65th Infantry Division cross a bridge, drive along streets and outskirts of the town. Close-up views of soldiers crossing the bridge, some smiling for the camera.
German civilians in Regensburg, Germany during World War II. Wrecked cars in a railroad yard. German civilians search through the railroad cars picking out clothing, food and other useful articles. The civilians clear an earthen roadblock under an archway, shoveling rocks into carts. Captured German WAC (Women's Army Corps) and other prisoners.
The town of Regensburg, Germany during World War II. Germans, Russians and Poles search through wrecked railroad cars picking out clothing, food and other useful articles.
German officials surrender in Regensburg, Germany during World War II. German and U.S. officers during surrender proceedings in a town square. Officials include U.S. Colonel Frank Dunkerly of Lawrence, Kansas and a German Major who commanded the city garrison and others.
Freed Allied prisoners in Wurzen, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. Large groups of freed Allied prisoners including American, British, French Moroccan, Poles, Slavs and Indians in Wurzen. A partially damaged bridge. The ex-prisoners scramble over the damage in attempt to cross the river and reach U.S. lines.
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