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Russian officers interrogate camp guards, dig mass graves and inspect gas chambers of Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

The Nazi concentration camp in Majdanek, Poland (also known as Maidanek) soon after its liberation in World War II. Russian officer interrogates German guards and officials of the camp. Men dig up mass graves for evidence of atrocities and pull out dead bodies. Women weep as bodies uncovered. Decomposed and deformed bodies and pile of skull uncovered. Soviet Russian officers stand and view a mass grave. Barbed wire fencing and wooden sticks used for beating inmates. Zyklon B (or Cyclone B) chemical can that was used for gas in the gas chamber. Soviet officials tour the gas chambers. Guards and officials of camp interrogated with the help of a Russian woman interpreter. Various prisoners tell the story of atrocities at the Lublin Concentration Camp, KL Lublin. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675037237
Russian soldiers rescue women and children prisoners and recover dead bodies at the Auschwitz Concentration camp in Poland.

Auschwitz Concentration camp of the Nazi Germans in Auschwitz, Poland during World War II. Russian soldiers note details of survivor women inmates from Yugoslavia. Inmates walk along with soldiers along barbed wire fencing. Male inmates carry a stretcher with dead body of a young woman. Pile of dead bodies taken out from a chamber. Horse carts draw lumps of dead bodies out of the camp. Young children released from experiment laboratories of the concentration camp, walk along paths guarded by barbed wire fencing. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675037240
German A-4/V-2 missile fired from woods at Heidelager test range in Poland during World War II

German test launch of a A-4/V-2 missile, from a wooded site, at the Heidelager testing range near Blizna, Poland. The Missile moves upwards, emitting fire and smoke from its tail, and then heads downrange, with the fire in its tail visible throughout the entire clip.

Date: 1944
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037463
Piles of belongings of the victims at Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland

A group of people enter the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland. Piles of victim's clothing, shoes, gloves, toys, eye glasses, scissors, and other belongings and personal effects confiscated by the Nazi German guards operating the prison.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675058294
German officers visit a Catholic church in Kowel Poland during World War II (now Kovel Ukraine).

German propaganda newsreel shows German officers visiting a church in Kowel Poland, now Kovel Ukraine (possibly the Church of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr in Kovel, dismantled after World War 2). A statue of Jesus Christ and many other Christian Catholic and Russian Orthodox relics and artwork are on display, purportedly saved by German forces of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking under Nazi General Herbert Otto Gille. Several German officers join Herbert Otto Gille in looking at the items on display. Items include a vestment or altar cloth commemorating a 1921 Gymnastic gathering of the Sokol movement in Kowel (reading Kowlu on the fabric), and featuring the Black Madonna or Black Virgin. Other relics including Crowns, candle sticks, goblets, and crucifix. The German officers discuss the relics with the Catholic priests. The officers, including Obergruppenführer Herbert Otto Gille, shake hands with the clergy before departing.

Date: 1944
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675066375
German technicians work on components of a V-2 rocket, near Blizna, Poland, during World War II

Disassembling and assembling of an A-4, also known as V-2 missile propulsion unit at Heidelager Camp near Blizna in Poland during World War 2. Parts of the missile are towed on a trailer. German rocket technicians from Peenemunde work on the parts of the missile. The trailer moves on rails. Trees in the background.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062552