The Langenstein Concentration Camp for political prisoners in Germany towards the end of World War II. Sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and are placed in ambulances at the camp. Prisoners on litters are carried from ambulances to 20th Field Hospital tents in Halberstadt. A medical officer wearing a mask over his mouth, washes the emaciated body of a prisoner. Prisoners' uniforms and personal effects are burned near a tent by U.S. soldiers.
Bomb damage in Wiesbaden, Germany during World War II. Aerial views from a U.S. Army Air Force aircraft making a low pass show bomb damaged military installations and marshaling yards. Aerial views of bomb-damage in a concentration camp. A large town square is seen from the air, with numerous refugees moving about . Bomb-damaged buildings in the town. A U.S. Army L5 Stinson aircraft parked on an airfield.
Bomb damage in Wiesbaden, Germany during World War II. Aerial views from rear of a U.S. Army Air Force aircraft making a low pass show bomb damaged marshaling yards. Shadow of the aircraft on ground reveals that it is a J-3 Piper Cub. Aerial views of bombed out bridge towers and bridges over rivers. Large town square with many people gathered there. A bomb-damaged train and buildings along a track. Bomb-damaged residential apartment buildings. The shells of former homes.
Nazi atrocities at Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. Army Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton and Walton H. Walker inspect the camp. The Generals inspect the scaffold and talk to prisoners. A woodshed is filled with dead bodies stacked in piles. The Generals view lime-covered corpses. Inmates demonstrate how they were tortured. Dead bodies are strewn on the ground. U.S. Congressmen also view the camp. A crude cemetery with charred remains.
Nazi atrocities at newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany towards the end of World War II. A truck brings local townspeople, including Nazi party officials, who are forced to accompany the townspeople. Commander of U.S. 4th Armored Division Combat Command A Colonel Hayden Sears stands near Nazi officials. The visitors view dead bodies of inmates shot on the eve of U.S. arrival. Two slave labor bosses are shown at the camp. The Nazis are forced to go into a woodshed. Visitors view the charred remains of victims at a crematory near Ohrdruf.
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.
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