German soldiers surrender to United States soldiers in Italy during World War II. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) relax on an open ground in the assembly area. German surrendered artillery displayed on ground.
Nazi concentration camps seen after being liberated at end of World War II in Europe. Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, visits the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Surrounded by crowds of U.S. soldiers, he views the remains of dead victims. A man demonstrates how a device is used to punish inmates. Scene shifts to the Buchenwald camp, where political prisoners were kept,. and then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Survivors are seen in pitiful condition from starvation, torture, deprivation and sickness. Burned skeletons of human bodies in the ovens. German female concentration camp guards (SS guards known as Aufseherinnen) walking in a line and then seen in formation. SS (Schutzstaffel) concentration camp guards, both men and women, and their leader, Josef Kramer, Commandant of the Belsen camp, seen forming up, and then marching off and being taken into custody.
The liberation of the first Nazi concentration camp Ohrdruf near the end of World War II. On April 6, 1945, troops from U.S. Combat Command A, 4th Armored Division, commanded by Colonel Hayden Sears forced local town's people to tour the camp. Captured Nazi German officials get out of an army truck. A German Major (Doctor) also accompanies the group. Dead bodies on ground. Nazi officials are forced to watch heaps of bodies found inside a room. Burned bodies of Polish, Czechoslovakian, Russian, German Jews and political prisoners. The policy of requiring local German officials to view every captured concentration camp began with this episode. The rationale was the "They will never be able to say they didn't know what happened here." (Col Sears as reported by his son.)
Nazi concentration camps in Belgium during World War II. Prisoners of war at Breendonck Concentration Camp in Belgium after German surrender. View of the bloodstained coffins. Victims demonstrate whipping with barbed wire strings. Another victim demonstrates being chained and beaten. A man shows scars by repeated beatings. A man shows cigarette burns on his thigh. A woman shows wounds of beatings on her hip.
Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Tents of prisoners of war at Arnstadt Concentration Camp in Germany. Savage watchdogs were used to guard the camps. German villagers forced to exhume Polish and Russian bodies from mass grave for identification. Villagers dig out bodies. American troops view the bodies of Nazi barbarism.
Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany. Clothes of prisoners of war who had been put in gas chambers. Gas chambers inside the shower baths. Intake and outlet pipe, switch buttons, and hand valve to regulate pressure. A tin of senate powder. Remains of burned bodies inside the crematory ovens. Emaciated bodies of survivors.
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