Investigation of Jewish Displaced People's Camp in Landsberg, Germany. Lieutenant General Bedell Smith accompanied by Major General Albert W Kenner, Judge S H Rifkin (Theater Commander's Advisor on Jewish Affairs), correspondents and photographers. Officers enter two large buildings at the camp. Snow covered houses at the camp. The inspection party views medical patients in rooms and talks to some of them. Officers and others walk out of buildings talking with each other and enter another building. The people at the camp watch them closely. The officers enter a work shop where a man demonstrates a lathe machine. The inspection party views small tool items in a case, and then walks outside where exteriors of the buildings are seen.
A Nazi concentration and death camp in Mauthausen, Austria after liberation during World War II. Large piles of dead bodies at the camp left behind by German guards. Individual bodies and leaned survivors near them. Piles of leaned, starved and tortured dead bodies scattered on the ground.
A Nazi concentration and death camp in Mauthausen, Austria after liberation during World War II. Inmates in the women section. Leaned and starved survivors of the death camps after the retreat of German guards. Piled dead bodies scattered on the ground. Starved survivors at the camps in torn clothes, including some boy children. Barbed wire fencing and barracks huts along it.
A Nazi concentration and death camp in Mauthausen, Austria after liberation during World War II. A soldier looks at barb wire fencing. Scenes of Nazi atrocities at the camp: A dead woman lying on the ground, and a survivor nearby. Liberated inmates support a prisoner too weak to walk. Extremely thin man assisted in walking by a rescuer man. The rescuer then assists the liberated inmate with bathing. Horse cart carries dead bodies. A man weeps at the site. Number of horse carts ride out of the camp. An arrested German guard is surrounded by soldiers, pointing their rifles toward him.
The Nazi German concentration and death camp at Gusen, Austria (a subcamp of Mauthausen) after its liberation by the U.S. Army during World War II. Horse carts loaded with corpses lined at the camp. Clothes lump of died prisoners. German civilians dig mass graves for the victims of this camp. Two men of German SS troopers pull carts loaded with dead bodies. Elevated wide view panning over the barracks and other buildings of the Gusen concentration camp.
Clip opens with very brief image of buildings at Mauthausen concentration camp during World War 2. Next, scene changes to Lambach, Austria, on the banks of the River Traun, on a large open field in which German prisoners of war (POW) are seen camping and cooking food over open fires. They are German soldiers captured in the Austrian Alps by U.S. Army infantry soldiers of the 80th Division, 3rd U.S. Army, at the time the unconditional surrender was signed. The weather is warm and many are lightly dressed. Some men are lined up behind a truck carrying a tank of fresh water. A section of the camp has been cleared as a football (Soccer) pitch and men appear to be trying to organize a game. Scene shifts to a far end of the encampment, bounded by many trees. Everyone at the camp seems occupied in adjusting their tents and other matters related to their shelters. More views of men at the football pitch. Closeup of a man with stove and cooking gear under an unusual shelter. Closeup of a man eating soup as a group of young soldiers stand behind him. Closeup of three very young German soldiers, two of who are wearing German uniform caps. Closeup of an older man smoking a pipe. Another young man wearing a German soldier's cap.
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