A Nazi concentration and death camp in Mauthausen, Austria after liberation during World War II. Dead bodies of victims by Nazi German guards loaded on horse carts. A man examines a prisoner's dead body. Ovens used for cremation of dead prisoners. Men load corpses on the horse carts. Survivor inmates talk in a group. Elevated view of camp barracks buildings and of mass graves dug, with lines of dead bodies being readied for burial. A young woman liberated from the camp. A nurse examines a female inmate lying on the ground.
Activities of school children in Vienna, Austria. The school children receive noon day meal in the schoolyard. The children eat lunch. A woman feeds soup to a child. The children enter the school building.
Food aid for German and Austrian children soon after the end of World War 2 in Europe. British trucks loaded with food containers drive up to a school building in Vienna, Austria. A British truck approaches the school building. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets. Men unload the food containers from the trucks. A truck loaded with the food containers drives past through the streets. Trees on either sides of the streets. An open truck filled with bread drives past along a street. A line of school children marches through the streets. Buildings on either sides of the streets.
End of World War II in Europe. American Army troops make camp in hills overlooking Austrian town of Gramastetten. Several U.S. tanks are parked along a ridge. Soldiers clean out the tanks. Several U.S. soldiers pose as they look out at the town. Gramastetten Church (Pfarrkirche Gramastetten, Marktstraße 1, 4201 Gramastetten, Austria) is seen with smoke and buildings on fire in foreground, in market area near the church. The church view is obscured by smoke from the market area fire that drifts in front of the church.
End of World War II in Europe. German prisoners of war are held under guard at the base of the Trinity Column in the Town Square of Linz, Austria. American M4 Sherman tanks loaded with U.S. Army soldiers cross the "Niebelungen" Bridge as they enter the town.
Rescued inmates of the concentration camp # 3 talk about their experiences in Linz, Austria towards the end of World War II. The rescued assembled outside a wooden house. Those who were inside the house look outside through a window. The inmates are emaciated. An Italian talks about the adverse living conditions they faced at the concentration camp. He states that they had very little food, they slept 3 or 4 to a bed and there was no way to wash. He said he was also at Mauthausen for a time before being transferred. In total he had been in concentration camps for 8 months and considered himself very lucky to have lived. He said that in Linz there were 50 men in his quarters and each day 3 to 4 men died. He tells how he worked in a forced labor factory in Linz building tanks for the Germans, working 12 hours a day as a welder.
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