German people compelled by Allied forces to visit liberated concentration camps in Germany during World War 2. Citizens enter camp facilities and see horrors of holocaust. They emerge visibly shaken. View of some survivors of the camp. The Nazi leaders and officials made to visit the camp. The officials visit the dungeons where the prisoners were tortured. Heaps of bodies in a dungeon. The officials cover their noses with their hands and come out of the dungeon. German citizens of Weimar in lines waiting to visit nearby Buchenwald Concentration Camp. German citizens walking on roads, passing a sign board for "Adolf Hitler Strasse" (Adolf Hitler Street). Citizens walk toward the camp and are seen entering through the gates of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The corpses laid in coffins arranged in a line. German men, women, and children walk in a line by the side of the coffins. Children hold their noses. Men and women come out of the camp shaken by the experience. The people are made to walk by piles of dead bodies of atrocity victims loaded in trucks . Dead bodies of children and men in piles. People walk along the side of a road past a long row of the bodies of camp victims. Flashback scene to German crowd cheering the Nazi Party at a rally in Nuremberg, and various rallies hailing Adolf Hitler. Scene of large group of Germans marching and carrying crosses for graves.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, near Weimar, five days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War II. Lines of dead bodies of atrocity victims and other parts of human bodies of victims at the camp. German civilians walk around seeing the camp and evidence of Nazi brutality. Huge crowd gathers at the camp. Reactions on the faces of civilians seeing evidence of abuse and horros. Civilians crying and consoling other civilians.
View of a Roman Catholic Cathedral and a procession therefrom along a street lined with spectators in Germany, during the Weimar Republic era. Leading the procession are Roman Catholic clergy and Altar boys. They are followed by Nuns, and groups of women carrying religious books. Uniformed city policemen accompany the procession and a contingent of them marches in the procession. Statesmen participate in the procession along with senior uniformed military officers. Scene shifts to a city square where people are assembled. Here and there, individuals render Nazi salutes. In an open square, several Military leaders of World War 1, meet and greet one another. Among those seen are Field Marshal August von Mackensen in full formal regalia (back to the camera) greeting another officer. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, in mufti, is seen greeting another officer. The old World War 1 military leaders exchange salutes and greetings. A formation of uniformed soldiers stands in the background. Camera follows one German officer as the festivities end and he walks, alone, across the vast cobblestone square. Several automobiles transit the square. A fountain is seen in the far background.
Dead body of a prisoner victim at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Ettersberg and Weimar Germany, soon after the camp's liberation from Nazi German forces. Body of a man on a stretcher. Picture of Christ pinned on his clothes. Blood visible from his nose and head. (World War II period).
Liberated prisoners at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany near Ettersberg and Weimar. Gates of the concentration camp a few days after its liberation from Nazi German forces. American Army jeeps and U.S. soldiers outside the gate. Flag on the gate. A French prisoner. Slow pan of sign at gatehouse entrance which reads, Recht Oder Unrecht - Mein Vaterland." (My country, right or wrong.). Prisoner wearing cap and jacket with number 8 written on it. Two prisoners cover themselves with blanket. They remove blanket and show their striped uniform. They pull up their sleeves. (World War II period).
Prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Ettersberg and Weimar Germany, a few days after its liberation by American forces in World War 2. Prisoner shows emaciation. Man with crutches in the background. Other prisoners show deformation from malnutrition, atrocities, and abuse suffered in the camp. A prisoner suffering from emaciation is held up by another man. A four year old boy prisoner. The child wears a cap and a coat with a 'P' sign on it, and has been given a U.S. Army Infantry crossed rifles pin which he wears on his right lapel. Close up of the boy prisoner's face as he smiles. A group of boy children prisoners who were imprisoned for a year and a half stand together in a group. They are singing.
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