A Nazi concentration camp in Germany towards the end of World War II German civilians are made to board trucks by U.S. soldiers. Sign reads: "Adolf Hitler Strasse." More civilians arrive carrying shovels and they also board the trucks. Civilians carry an emaciated corpse of a camp victim. Prison barracks at the camp. Emaciated corpses lying on the ground. The civilians carrying the emaciated corpses of the camp victims.
U.S. Army Air Force B-26 Marauder bombers bomb targets in Germany during World War II. A very loose formation of C-47 aircraft flies overhead. View at groung level of a large area of fire involving war-damaged structures. A pile of ash and bone.
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.
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.
Freed Allied prisoners in Wurzen, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. Large groups of freed Allied prisoners including American, British, French Moroccan, Poles, Slavs and Indians in Wurzen. A partially damaged bridge. The ex-prisoners scramble over the damage in attempt to cross the river and reach U.S. lines.
Visitors view inside the Museum of History of Science, in the Old Ashmolean Museum on Broad Street, Oxford, England. Exhibits seen include: New Universal Silver Microscope developed by George Adams in 1761; Chemical glassware used in the Ashmolean Laboratory during 1790 to 1820; Telescopes of early times; Boyle's first air pump; and a picture of its inventor, Robert Boyle.
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