Interview of a liberated concentration camp prisoner in Dachau, Germany. A crowd gathered to watch the interview. Dr Hassarek of Czechoslovakia tells how he was hung by his wrists by Nazi German captors. (World War II period).
U.S. troops of the 45th Division, 157th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, I Company, entering the area of Dachau concentration camp, in the final days of World War 2. They are seen escorting German prisoners of war, with their hands raised, along a railroad siding. U.S. troops in front of a railroad train of boxcars. A dead German soldier, face down on the ground. The U.S. troops follow the railroad track into area of buildings, and run to take cover due to incoming fire. One fires a browning automatic rifle from an elevated walkway. Other American soldiers hunker down behind the walkway wall. U.S. Army soldier fires rifle while standing on a roadway. Surrendering German soldier, carrying a white flag, is attacked by a concentration camp inmate, as several other liberated inmates and U.S. Army soldiers stand nearby, watching. (Note: Opening cameraman slate states date as 04-27-1945, but historical records indicate this took place on 04-29-1945.)
Under U.S. Army guard, German civilians dig up dead bodies of Jewish slave laborers found in a mass grave in a forest of Neunburg, Germany. They remove the bodies of the murdered prisoners from pits. A ladder at side of the pit. (World War II period).
Prisoners at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany. A heap of dead bodies. Men put the dead bodies in a cart. An officer closes his nose because of the smell of dead bodies. Men throw dead bodies on cart. (World War II period).
Prisoners at the Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany. Heap of dead bodies. Men put dead bodies in a cart. Dead bodies in a cart. Man puts his leg on dead bodies and pulls out one from the heap. He drags the body. Men stand in the background. The pieces of human bodies piled up. Dead bodies taken by a horse drawn cart. (World War II period).
Dead body of a prisoner victim at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Ettersberg and Weimar Germany, soon after the camp's liberation from Nazi German forces. Body of a man on a stretcher. Picture of Christ pinned on his clothes. Blood visible from his nose and head. (World War II period).
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