Nazi atrocities at newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. A truck brings local townspeople, including Nazi party officials, who are forced to accompany the townspeople. Commander of U.S. 4th Armored Division Combat Command A Colonel Hayden Sears stands near Nazi officials. The visitors view dead bodies of inmates shot on the eve of U.S. arrival. Two slave labor bosses are shown at the camp. The Nazis are forced to go into a woodshed. Visitors view the charred remains of victims at a crematory near Ohrdruf.
Post-liberation views of Nazi atrocities at the Hadamar Institute (Hadamar Euthanasia Centre) in Hadamar, Germany towards the end of World War II. American officers visit the building where, under the guise of an insane asylum, 35,000 people were murdered. The visitors examine emaciated patients. Head of the American War Crimes Investigation Team, Major Herman Bolker, leads the examination. In the graveyard attached to the institution, bodies are exhumed for autopsies. Men wear gas masks as they lift corpses out of holes and line up bodies. Major Bolker list data. The head of the institute, Dr. Adolf Wahlmann and the head male nurse, Karl Willig, are questioned about the use of morphine, before being led off to await a trial.
U.S. infantry soldiers and trucks advance in Regensburg, Germany during World War II. Infantrymen and trucks of U.S. 65th Infantry Division cross a bridge, drive along streets and outskirts of the town. Close-up views of soldiers crossing the bridge, some smiling for the camera.
German civilians in Regensburg, Germany during World War II. Wrecked cars in a railroad yard. German civilians search through the railroad cars picking out clothing, food and other useful articles. The civilians clear an earthen roadblock under an archway, shoveling rocks into carts. Captured German WAC (Women's Army Corps) and other prisoners.
The town of Regensburg, Germany during World War II. Germans, Russians and Poles search through wrecked railroad cars picking out clothing, food and other useful articles.
German officials surrender in Regensburg, Germany during World War II. German and U.S. officers during surrender proceedings in a town square. Officials include U.S. Colonel Frank Dunkerly of Lawrence, Kansas and a German Major who commanded the city garrison and others.
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