Allied military in Germany after World War II. High ranking German prisoners move into a C-47 aircraft. Among the prisoners are German ace General Adolf Galland, ace German Luftwaffe pilot Hans-Ulrich Von Rudel and other officials. Officials smiling and talking with each other. General Von Rudel with one leg (peg on the other) walks using calipers.
Dachau concentration camp of the Nazis in Dachau Germany, shortly after end of World War II in Europe. Paintings depicting the torture done to the prisoners at this camp. Painting of men hanging from arms tied with a rope as Nazi officials look at them. Another painting shows opprobrious beating by Nazi officials, of a prisoner with his hands and upper body lying on a table and legs put into cold water.
Leipzig concentration camp of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Surviving inmates of the camp talk to Allied military soldiers. Dead bodies of prisoners shot by guards. Dead bodies of prisoners burnt alive. Dead bodies of those who managed to escape the burning chamber and were thrown into barb wires carrying current. German civilians carrying Holy Cross and shovels, moving for the burial of the dead by the orders of Allied military commanders. Russian women freed from a camp, watch from outside the camp.
The day following the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War 2. German prisoners walk on wet sands of the beach, guarded by U.S. Army military police. Various Allied ships in background. German prisoners held temporarily between fences of barbed wire on the beach.
Views of men, women, and children aboard the steamship "SS "Marine Flasher" docked at a pier in New York harbor after a voyage from Bremen, Germany. Her passengers include many refugees and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. Many benefited from U.S. Presidential Directive No. 29, issued on December 22, 1945, giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. A woman with her child smiles. A boy waves at friends and relatives on shore. A young brother and sister in the ship. An older and younger woman, likely mother and daughter, show the prisoner number tattooed by Nazis on their arms. The tattoos are sequentially numbered, A-26587 and A-26588. Reuniting people hold each other with warmth and weep. A family of 7 children spanning a range of ages, with no parents evident. (Note: this is the Weber family ranging in age from 4-18. In order of age from oldest to youngest they are Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, Renee, Judith, and Virginia (Ginger) nee Bela. The family settled in Chicago. All married and had 24 children and now numerous grandchildren. The children and grandchildren live in across the U.S. in Chicago, Maryland, Texas, Alabama, California, Virginia, Minnesota and in London, England. This Information provided in 2014, by Lynn Chapman daughter of Gertrude.) (World War II period).
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of Nazi atrocities in World War 2, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary concentration camps in Czechoslovakia. German prisoners of war work in graves with shovels exhuming bodies of Czech patriots who were concentration camp victims. Dead bodies lifted on the litter by prisoners. Bodies taken for identification. Dead bodies kept on wooden platforms in a yard for doctors' identification.
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