Scenes at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, 4 days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Prisoners demonstrate atrocities committed by Nazi German captors: Three prisoners stand. A bench placed nearby. One man climbs on a stool and demonstrates the tying of a double looped rope around a victim's neck, designed to strangle the prisoner. The man demonstrating the victim then falls to the ground. Another liberated prisoner then demonstrates the use of a wooden club to hit the head of the fallen victim. A damaged club. Elevated view of Buchenwald Concentration Camp buildings as seen from a tower or high gate. View of some of the mounted searchlights at the camp.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany. Footage from 5 days after the camp's liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Elevated view of crowd around a band playing in the prison courtyard. A captive German SS (Schutzstaffel) soldier with a battered face. Another German Nazi SS soldier prisoner held by the Allies. Mrs Walter Warnstedt, wife of the camp hangman. A Ukrainian SS man.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany in World War 2, soon after its liberation in World War II. Hungarian prisoner Max Diamond. A Bavarian political prisoner. Liberated French prisoners stand in front of the prison. A German political prisoner. Prisoners wear black cap with red, white and black band. Red triangle mark on shirts indicates political prisoners. Prisoner with red triangle badge and number 43175. Wired pillar in front of prison.
Exterior of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, soon after its liberation by American forces in World War 2. The American flag lowered to half-mast in memorial of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. German people enter the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. German civilians walk in lines at the liberated Concentration camp, entering to view atrocities committed by Nazi German forces.
The liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, 5 days after its liberation by American forces in World War 2. German civilians view the camp. American soldiers direct them. Two ladies holding hands enter. Huge crowd of civilians gathered at the camp. Bright sunny day. Reactions on faces of German civilians as they view dead inmates and victims of Nazi brutality and atrocities at the camp. Lines of dead bodies and other parts of human bodies at the camp. Some citizens console other German citizens while they cry.
Elevated view of bomb damaged buildings and wreckage of the Carl Zeiss Factory, in Jena, Germany, near Weimar. Bombed out factory buildings and interiors. Landscape shows many bombed out buildings in Jena ara following Allied air raids during World War 2
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