Two Hitler Youth teenagers and a boy talk at a campsite in Chieming, Bavaria, Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth boys carrying a wooden makeshift ladder in the foreground. A younger Hitler Youth boy greets the group with a Nazi Salute and delivers a letter. Two Hitler Youth teenagers, possibly group leaders, read the letter and they shake hands. Hitler Youth teenagers and children begin to march. View of the Hitler Youth camp with tents. An aircraft flies over the camp. Boys bringing firewood to a camp fire area. A boy climbs down from straw wall into an enclosure where "captured" Hitler Youth boys from another group are kept. Two Hitler Youth boys watch a flying aircraft. More Hitler Youth boys watch and point at the aircraft. Aerial view of Hitler Youth camp and Chiemsee lake as seem from a low flying aircraft. Hitler Youth boys watching the aircraft while sitting behind enclosure. Hitler Youth boys, wearing swimming suits, sit on small boats and floating logs in lake Chiemsee. A boy viewing the aircraft falls from floating log. Boys notice the flying aircraft. The small glider aircraft lands in grassy field. Hitler Youth boys from the lake run to meet the pilot of the glider, a Hitler Youth teen leader, who emerges from the aircraft.
WW2-evacuated children in German at a Hitler Youth camp. Teenage boys in swimming trunks head to Chiemsee lake in Chieming, Bavaria, Germany. The three teenagers talk and shake hands before joining a mock naval flotilla. Hitler Youth boys begin rowing and paddling boats. A Hitler Youth boy plays drums on one of the boats. Two German boys from another Hitler Youth group on a boat notice the flotilla. The two boys head back to shore to warn other boys. German boy climbs a tree to call a teenager standing on top of the tree. Teenager uses binoculars to watch the mock flotilla. Boys head to a Hitler Youth straw fort to raise alarm. Hitler Youth boys assume prone position in front of the straw fort. Mock flotilla heads towards lakeshore. Hitler Youth boys on boats push a swimming boy’s head under the water. Boy swims towards a boat and knocks the rower out. Boy takes over the boat. Boy on boat dives into the water. Another boy snatches the paddle from a boat rower, taking the boy from the boat into the water. Boys tackle and wrestle each other during a mock battle in the lake. More reinforcements run to the lake to overpower mock flotilla. Boys with ladder on raft lower their mast and wade to the shore. Hitler Youth boys wrestle in mock combat on lakeside. Groups of German boys tackling each other roughly. Some of the boys bring an improvised ladder sneak away from the brawl, climbing up the straw fort and cheering. Boys inside the fort opens the gate and run. A single sig rune (emblem of the Hitler Youth) adorns some flags. Hitler Youth boys standing behind an enclosure watch the fighting. Hitler Youth boys climb a straw wall and pull the guard away. "Captured" Hitler Youth boys in enclosure are rescued while another boy takes the Hitler Youth flag inside the fort. A Hitler Youth teenager waves their flag on top of the straw fort, showing they have captured the opposing fort. Hitler Youth groups stop their mock battle and begin to cheer.
Hitler Youth boys gather in a straw fort camp for a meeting in Chieming, Bavaria, Germany during World War II. A musical band plays music as Hitler Youth leaders enters the fort. Hitler Youth teenage leader addresses the members and shake hands with another leader. Hitler Youth boys began to sing Nazi songs and march out of the fort. A single sig rune (emblem of the Hitler Youth) adorns a wall.
The Dnipro River in Smolensk, Soviet Union during World War II. Several buildings and facilities seen from the Dnipro River. A secluded Soviet government facility near a forest trail leading to Katyn Forest. Nazi German officials in Katyn Forest after the discovery of the Katyn massacre mass grave. Men exhume thousands of corpses in Katyn Forest near Smolensk. Corpses of Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war in mass grave. Partially exhumed corpses are seen stacked on top of each other.
The body of Polish Brigadier General Mieczysław Smorawiński is exhumed and identified by Red Cross workers at Katyn during World War II. Men carrying the remains of Smorawiński. Red Cross workers perform an autopsy on Smorawiński’s remains. Forensic experts inspect the neck and head of Katyn massacre victim. Red Cross workers, field chaplains, and European Red Cross committee (Katyn Commission) members are present as the autopsies are performed onsite. Partially exhumed corpses in the Katyn massacre mass grave. A Nazi German official shows exhumed corpses to reporters. Officials inspect the corpses found in mass grave. Nazi German officer showing damage on a victim’s neck to representatives. Katyn Commission officials and reporters inspect Polish identification cards and personal effects found in victims. They take notes of the items. Reporters are shown the pit of the mass grave. Workers unearth a corpse in the mass grave. German soldiers are also present at the Katyn massacre mass crave. Decomposed remains of a Katyn massacre victim. A 72-year-old farmer giving testimony and information about the 1940 Katyn massacre to a field chaplain, investigators, and reporters. Investigators and workers view the exhumed victims on the ground. German field chaplain performs the last rites for the Katyn massacre victims.
Man holds the hand of a body exhumed in Katyn Forest during World War II. Bishop Gregory, an Eastern Orthodox Christian bishop, performs the last rites for the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre. Relatives of the Polish Katyn massacre victims crying during the ceremony. The Eastern Orthodox bishop and mass attendees perform the sign of the cross. Eastern Orthodox bishop bless the mass grave as relatives watch. Christian bishops and priests of various denominations are also present at the ceremony. Priests and families of victims praying during the last rites ceremony. A bereaved woman sobbing. A Nazi German official lays a wreath in front of the mass grave. Crosses at Katyn Forest. Two women weeping for the Katyn massacre victims.
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