Royal Laotian military operations in Thakhet, Laos. Soldiers enter Viet Minh position, after shelling it. Other soldiers sit under a tree. Back at their outpost, Laotian soldiers search and process Viet Minh prisoners. Soldier helps a wounded prisoner to walk. Trees in the background. Prisoner drinks water. Prisoners are moved by soldiers.
U.S. prisoners of war are marched in Hanoi, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. prisoners are marched by North Vietnamese soldiers along a street. The prisoners march along the street lined up by screaming spectators. The prisoners are handcuffed in pairs and they wear numbered shirts. One pair of handcuffed Americans wear the numbers 399 (Edward Alan Brudno) and 381 (WIlliam Micahel Tschudy) on their backs. A crowd of North Vietnamese surround soldiers carrying an unconscious injured American captive. The soldiers try to hold back the crowd. One soldier waves a pistol in one hand as he helps carry the American captive with the other. Photographers take pictures as the soldiers place the captive American in a covered truck and drive away through the crowd.
A Nazi concentration camp in Hanover, Germany after World War II. Views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. Surviving prisoners in striped uniform walk behind barbed wire fences. The liberated prisoners are fed from a Red Cross truck. The prisoners eat. Some in bed are too weak to move. A dead prisoner is carried out and buried. An AMG (Allied Military Government) Sergeant checks a list of inmates. Victims speak about atrocities committed by the Nazis. A group of surviving inmates is photographed.
The Langenstein Concentration Camp for political prisoners in Germany towards the end of World War II. Sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and are placed in a U.S. 10th Field Hospital ambulance. Smoke rises from explosions on a hillside. Sick prisoners are placed in ambulances. U.S. soldiers stand around. Unburied dead bodies lying in an open pit. Several thin, starved-looking prisoners talk to a U.S. officer and a doctor.
Japanese prisoners in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Japanese prisoners are marched. Wounded prisoners carried on stretchers. MP (Military Police) stands guard. U.S. Marines leave the beach in landing craft. Prisoners march behind barbed wire.
Chain gang eat on a field in Georgia, United States. Shackles on feet and hands of a prisoner. African American prisoners of chain gang eat while seated on a field. White prisoners also among the group, sitting separately. Several views of prisoners eating. Guard with a rifle keeps watch.
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