Dead bodies of emaciated prisoners at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, after World War II. Dead bodies kept in a line. The emaciated prisoners died after liberation of the camp by Allied forces. Starved and tortured dead bodies. A holy cross in the neck of one of the dead body. More than one corpse kept in an open casket.
White Russian refugees making their way through heavy snows in Siberia during Russian Civil War period. They are escorted by several White Russian Guards on horseback. Change of scene shows some Bolshevik prisoners walking through snow, on a snowy day. Wooden sleds and gear towed by horses accompany the prisoners. Anachronistic brief glimpse of the giant Soviet Tupolev ANT-20 airplane in flight overhead, circa 1934. The name Maxim Gorky is written (in Russian) on the wings of the plane. (Russian Civil War and World War I time frame.)
Near the end of World War II, three freed inmates at a German concentration camp in Linz Austria (camp #3) discuss their treatment while at the camp. They speak in English but with varying accents including French. They speak in an open yard of the camp, with barracks in the background. The former inmates talk about lethal injections, cold baths, whippings, hangings, and extermination camps. They also talk about the joy when the camp was liberated by the Americans, which was preceded by the Americans bombing the Nazi forces in the area. They mention that the bombing cut off the water to the camp so the SS forces could no longer subject inmates to the cold baths. They discuss hangings of three prisoners from a scaffold in the yard behind them, and how all the camp inmates were assembled and forced to look at the hung inmates. One of the freed inmates talking is named Alex. They discuss how the jews in the camp had been rounded up and locked in a room with no food. They were in the room two days before being saved by the Americans. They also talk about the camp at Mauthausen where prisoners were subjected to hard labor, torture with heavy rocks, and executed by the SS after 5 days. Also they speak of inmates put in chains and dogs used at Mauthausen.
Liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Allied soldiers advance across a field and take German soldiers as prisoners. German prisoners being questioned by the soldiers. Allied soldiers walk down a street as they advance. A dead German soldier in a trench. A dead soldier in an armored car. A wounded native being loaded onto an ambulance.
U.S. 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry Regiment crosses a canal near Herne, Germany during World War II. Military Policemen march prisoners along a street. Soldiers cross the Rhine Herne Canal in an assault boat, get off on the other side and climb up an embankment. The prisoners running with hands raised are followed by American soldiers.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Two North Vietnamese prisoners are brought in by an ARVN soldier. Other ARVN soldiers stand around on open field. Armored Personnel Carriers in the background. The prisoners are questioned by the ARVN soldier.
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