Meppene concentration camp in Germany visited after World War II. The prisoners of the camp, primarily Russians, given clothes and food by the Allied military soldiers. Liberated prisoners walk out of their barracks. Men walk with calipers. Inmates searching for scrapes of food in garbage. A prisoner eats food provided by the soldiers Handicapped prisoners of the camp unable to walk, lie on ground. Dead bodies of leaned, starved skinny prisoners taken for burial. Men carry dead bodies for funeral on stretcher.
Paderborn concentration camp in Germany visited after World War II. The 2nd division of the 9th Army of the Allied military forces arrive at the camp with their tanks and weapons. The liberated Russian prisoners raid food stores for stealing baking flour kept at the stores. Prisoners break the door of store. Man eating baking flour. Men fight over a little flour. Soldiers control the prisoners.
Munster concentration camp in Germany after World War II. The 9th Army of the Allied military forces arrives at the camp with their tanks and weapons and liberates prisoners of the camp. An inmate washes his wounds. Inmates cook food for them, supplied by the Allied troops. The liberated French and Belgian prisoners. Water tanker for prisoners. A happy old man smiles.
Munster concentration camp for Belgian prisoners during World War II. The buildings, prisons in the compound of this camp. Man gives a demonstration of torturing methods adopted by the Nazi German guards at the camp. A man tied from arms with a pole and then beaten with a barbed wire wrapped stick. Another man bound by chains and barbed wires and beaten. Impressions of chains and barbed wires on the prisoners. Use of a screw driven two part pressing device to crush the hands and fingers of a prisoner. Survivors show scars of repeated beatings and tortures. Wounds of beating and cigarette burns on thighs and lower body portions of Belgian men and women liberated from the prison camp.
Nordhausen concentration camp used as slave labor camp by the Nazis during World War II. The camp after Allied forces arrive. Corpses lying all over the ground. More dead bodies kept under miserable conditions. The leaned, starved and brutally tortured dead bodies full of wounds and scars. Allied soldiers and Red Cross men take survivors for relief and medical aid to Allied hospitals. Most of them are too weak to move. Weeping inmates eat food. Seriously injured carried in ambulances. More dead bodies, all brutally killed. German civilians carry dead bodies. Civilians move with shovels to dig common graves and mass burials of the 2500 victims of this camp. Dead bodies in mass graves.
Hanover concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Allied forces arrive at the camp. Inmates given food and clothes by Allied soldiers. Inmates lined for soup. Leaned starved inmates eat the soup, some of them weep. Inmates too weak to stand or move, lying sick inside their barracks. Men take out dead bodies from the barracks. A Sergeant of the AMG (Allied Military Government) checks the list and the inmates at the camp. Photographs of starved and tortured inmates taken.
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