The Battle of Arras in France during World War I. Some of the captured prisoners of war walk on a road in front of buildings. A mass of prisoners walks accompanied by officers. Some of the prisoners sit and others stand in the back.
Atrocities against prisoners in Nazi camps at different places in and occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2. Wounded and emaciated Americans are fed and given medical care by Yank Armies of Liberation in Grasleben, Germany. Masked grave diggers open graves in Hadamar, Germany. Around 35,000 political prisoners found buried. Soldiers question Nazi German Chief physician Adolf Wahlmann at Hadamar Killing Centre. General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley inspect Camp Ohrdruf (a Nazi Camp) in Germany. Heaps of human bodies and lime pits filled with corpses can be seen. 21,000 prisoners stumble around with their broken skulls in Buchenwald Concentration Camp (a Nazi camp in Germany). Corpses lie everywhere with large tattooed numbers on their stomachs. Two crematory ovens that were used. Starved people loaded into ambulances for treatment. (World War II period).
Investigation of Suffocation deaths of four inmates at the Holmesburg Prison. View of the Holmesburg County Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A man closes the gate of the prison. State and County Officials discuss amongst themselves and then enter the jail. Scenes of punishment unit used to overheat the air tight cells the men are kept in.
Liberation of town of Sées, France, during World War 2. Sign reads "Sees". Captured German prisoners of war lined up on a roadway in Sees, France. French soldiers stand guard in front of the German prisoners. Close up view of faces of the German prisoners, some are young boy soldiers. French Major General Jacques Phillippe Leclerc of 2nd Armored Division talks with soldiers including an American
Prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria released after liberation of the camp at end of World War II. Starved, naked and extremely weak prisoners walk out of German prison barracks. These victims of Nazi atrocities, many too weak to walk, are carried by other inmates and aid workers. View of camp barracks with mountains in background.
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.
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