U.S. troops of the 45th Division, 157th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, I Company, entering the area of Dachau concentration camp, in the final days of World War 2. They are seen escorting German prisoners of war, with their hands raised, along a railroad siding. U.S. troops in front of a railroad train of boxcars. A dead German soldier, face down on the ground. The U.S. troops follow the railroad track into area of buildings, and run to take cover due to incoming fire. One fires a browning automatic rifle from an elevated walkway. Other American soldiers hunker down behind the walkway wall. U.S. Army soldier fires rifle while standing on a roadway. Surrendering German soldier, carrying a white flag, is attacked by a concentration camp inmate, as several other liberated inmates and U.S. Army soldiers stand nearby, watching. (Note: Opening cameraman slate states date as 04-27-1945, but historical records indicate this took place on 04-29-1945.)
During liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany during World War 2. Huge pile of discarded prison uniforms. German military or civilian prisoners of war, under U.S. Army direction, unload dead bodies from wagons in front of cemetery. A liberated prisoner sprayed with DDT powder for delousing. Large group of men and boy prisoners wait to get sprayed.
Liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Liberated prisoners in courtyard wave, cheer, and celebrate behind barbed wire fence. Bodies of 5 or 6 dead German guards seen in foreground, on an embankment just outside the prison fence. Prisoners parade in camp carrying flags of various nations and pictures of leaders Stalin and Tito.
Liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp during World War 2. A Jewish boy aged 11, a prisoner in various camps for four years, plays an accordion. Long line of civilians and some uniformed soldiers is seen stretching down a road inside the camp (potentially German civilians, German soldiers, and possibly some conscripted inmates and Hungarian troops.) They are passing before a group of liberated concentration camp prisoners as part of a lineup, potentially for the liberated prisoners to point out those they recognize as perpetrators and accomplices for involvement in the camp. German prisoners stand with their hands up, being viewed by liberated concentration camp inmates while U.S. Army forces stand by and in the background.
German civilians assembled and marched to forest where murdered Jews were found in Neunburg, Germany in World War 2. German civilian men and women in teams of four queue to receive pine wood coffins to carry to the area. U.S. Army guards stand by.
German civilians come out of a building in Neunburg, Germany during World War 2. Civilians carry open coffins containing bodies of murdered Jewish slave laborers who had been discovered in nearby woods. The civilians place the coffins on the ground in a line in the town. Men, women, and children of the town walk past the open coffins and view the atrocities. Anguished face expressions of townspeople. Bodies await burial as civilians walk past coffins.
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