The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of Nazi Germans in Lower Saxony, Germany after liberation by British Army during World War II. A woman doctor, prisoner and in charge of the female section, describes conditions of the camp. She indicates there were no beds, little food and water a day. Epidemics of typhus spread. No medicine available. More than a thousand died daily. Various gynecologic experiments performed on girls around nineteen years of age. Guards in the men's camp took out liver and heart of dead men and ate them. Food and chocolates distributed by Red Cross just before British forces arrived. Medical experiments included giving heavy Benzene injections to the prisoners. Women liberated from the camp stand around her. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230
A Nazi concentration and death camp in Mauthausen, Austria after liberation during World War II. Some German guards of the Mauthausen concentration camp on their knees as several inmates watch. Survivor women prisoners at the female section of the concentration camps. Emaciated and starved women at the camp, sitting on ground. A young liberated inmate helps another with a knitting project. One of them still wears their striped prisoner uniform. A girl smiles after liberation.
Italian Prisoners of War (POW) at bunking space on the hangar deck aboard United States Navy ship USS Wasp (CV-18) as they return to Naples, Italy after the end of World War II. One of the prisoners plays guitar as others listen. A Pilot being hoisted in Boatswain chair from a boat alongside the ship. An Italian soldier gets a haircut from an Italian barber on the deck of the ship.
Italian Prisoners of War enjoy a game of football on the hangar deck of United States Navy ship USS Wasp (CV-18) on their way to Naples, Italy after World War II. A large number of Italian prisoners cheer the players. A band parades on the flight deck of the carrier.
British forces taking large numbers of Italian prisoners during the Western Desert Campaiign in Egypt during WWII. Marmon-Harrington Armored Cars are shown.. Several large fires. Italian prisoners brought in by the truck full and processed into holding areas. High winds and sand storms wreak havoc on soldiers tents and encampment. (World War II period).
Newsreel titled "Prisoners become GI Engineers" shows Italian Prisoners of War who have become members of United States Engineering Service at Camp Sutton in North Carolina in United States. G.I. Engineers lined up at the camp. They work, eat their meals and parade at the camp during their time in World War II.
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