Arnsdadt concentration camp which housed Russian and Polish prisoners of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Tents and fenced boundaries at the camp. German civilians dig common grave and bury the dead. U.S. soldiers guard them. Dead body of a United States army man shot in forehead by the retreating Germans. Ground covered with dead bodies of the victims of atrocities at this concentration camp.
Munster concentration camp for Belgian prisoners during World War II. The buildings, prisons in the compound of this camp. Man gives a demonstration of torturing methods adopted by the Nazi German guards at the camp. A man tied from arms with a pole and then beaten with a barbed wire wrapped stick. Another man bound by chains and barbed wires and beaten. Impressions of chains and barbed wires on the prisoners. Use of a screw driven two part pressing device to crush the hands and fingers of a prisoner. Survivors show scars of repeated beatings and tortures. Wounds of beating and cigarette burns on thighs and lower body portions of Belgian men and women liberated from the prison camp.
Nordhausen concentration camp used as slave labor camp by the Nazis during World War II. The camp after Allied forces arrive. Corpses lying all over the ground. More dead bodies kept under miserable conditions. The leaned, starved and brutally tortured dead bodies full of wounds and scars. Allied soldiers and Red Cross men take survivors for relief and medical aid to Allied hospitals. Most of them are too weak to move. Weeping inmates eat food. Seriously injured carried in ambulances. More dead bodies, all brutally killed. German civilians carry dead bodies. Civilians move with shovels to dig common graves and mass burials of the 2500 victims of this camp. Dead bodies in mass graves.
The Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Red Cross trucks and relief from Switzerland reach the concentration camp. Among the 2000 survivors of this camp, almost a 1000 are children; boys of age fourteen or less. The weak, starved and tortured inmates from various European countries, at the camp. Old men and children at the camp. Stacks of dead bodies at crematory, in a truck and at the experimental building. All have prisoner number and nationality tattooed on their stomach. A club weapon used for torturing. Crematory ovens with bones and remains of dead inside the ovens. 1200 civilians of a town Weimar nearby the camp sent on a forced tour of the camp. A group of smiling civilians, men and women walk towards the camp. Civilians enter the camp and see the display of articles made of human skin. Lampshades, paintings and articles of human skin and bones. Human heads shrunk to one fifth of their normal size. Women faint and are carried out. Civilians visit the ill-conditions of prisoners at surviving sections of the camp. A boy with severe trench foot wound. Truckloads of dead bodies of the victims of this camp.
Major General Nathan F. Twining, Commanding General, 13th Air Force. arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces, at Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. (The 339th had successfully accomplished a highest priority mission, shooting down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane on April 18, 1943.) Major General Twining, wearing a pith helmet, steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of 339th Squadron Pilots. He examines the nose wheel of a P-38, as a group of pilots stand around him. General Twining converses for a while with Major John W. Mitchell, Commander, 339th Fighter Squadron, who led the mission to down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane. Later, members of the 339th Squadron are photographed in conversations with one another.
U.S. military personnel working at end of Henderson airfield on Guadalcanal during World War 2. One pushes a wheelbarrow. Camera pans across and along runway to P-38 aircraft parked haphazardly in grass. It continues to pan, showing lots of damaged aircraft and parts, including several P-40s. Mechanics work on one of the P-40s. A fuel truck passes. Tents are seen behind the piles of parts and aircraft. Numerous auxiliary fuel tanks are piled up in one area. Broken aircraft parts are seen in a ditch off the side of the runway. Trees and foliage are in the background with tents pitched amongst them. As the camera continues to pan farther down the runway, it reveals more orderly campsites, with tents and laundry drying. Mechanics work on the engine of a P-38 parked on a sandy ramp. Palm trees and water seen in background. More P-38s are parked in good order. Scene shifts to a P-38 taking off. It is followed by a second, and then a third, all taking off in quick succession.
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