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German Commander Josef Kramer being taken into custody at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany (WW2)

Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany. Commander of the Bergen-Belsen Camp Josef Kramer being taken into custody. United States officers watching. Emaciated prisoners of war seated on beds. Women prisoners crying on being rescued. Piles of mutilated and emaciated dead bodies on ground. Numbers tattooed on the bodies.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064129
United States President Dwight D Eisenhower visits Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Germany at end of World War II, in Europe.

Nazi concentration camps seen after being liberated at end of World War II in Europe. Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, visits the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Surrounded by crowds of U.S. soldiers, he views the remains of dead victims. A man demonstrates how a device is used to punish inmates. Scene shifts to the Buchenwald camp, where political prisoners were kept,. and then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Survivors are seen in pitiful condition from starvation, torture, deprivation and sickness. Burned skeletons of human bodies in the ovens. German female concentration camp guards (SS guards known as Aufseherinnen) walking in a line and then seen in formation. SS (Schutzstaffel) concentration camp guards, both men and women, and their leader, Josef Kramer, Commandant of the Belsen camp, seen forming up, and then marching off and being taken into custody.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064108
A British Royal Artillery officer, in charge of Belsen concentration camp at Lower Saxony, Germany speaks after liberation.

An officer of the British Royal Artillery, in charge of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany at Lower Saxony, Germany. The officer speaks after liberation about the conditions at the camp when Allied forces reached there. Seventeen thousand prisoners buried by them. The prisoners had no food for six days and they ate turnips. The officer informs about the cook house since organized at the camp. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037243
Speech of a woman doctor who was a liberated prisoner and in charge of female section at Belsen concentration camp in Germany

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of Nazi Germans in Lower Saxony, Germany after liberation by British Army during World War II. A woman doctor, prisoner and in charge of the female section, describes conditions of the camp. She indicates there were no beds, little food and water a day. Epidemics of typhus spread. No medicine available. More than a thousand died daily. Various gynecologic experiments performed on girls around nineteen years of age. Guards in the men's camp took out liver and heart of dead men and ate them. Food and chocolates distributed by Red Cross just before British forces arrived. Medical experiments included giving heavy Benzene injections to the prisoners. Women liberated from the camp stand around her. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230

Date: 1945, April 24
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037244
Camp guards arrested and piles of tortured dead bodies moved for burial at Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany in Lower Saxony, Germany after liberation by British Army during World War II. Narrator identifies Nazi officer by the name Kramer, as the camp commander, who is taken into custody by British troops. Guards of camp arrested by British Army. Prisoners inside the camp starved and sick, including some in a bunk house. Liberated woman weeps and kisses hand of a British soldier. Dead bodies of atrocity victims lie on grounds. Dead bodies of young women. Tortured and severely beaten dead bodies. Prisoner numbers tattooed on the arms of dead bodies. SS guards ordered to toss corpses in trucks. Immense number of dead bodies kept on open ground. SS guards toss dead bodies in a large open mass grave. German women guards at the camp walk out of a barracks, ordered to bury the dead. They drag dead bodies and throw them in a mass grave. A bulldozer sweeps piles of dead bodies in mass grave. Its operator covers his face. Pile of dead bodies swept into a mass grave. A U.S. Navy signed affidavit of authenticity of the footage concludes the clip. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037245
Concentration camp devastation scenes at many German camps including Hadamar, Landsberg, and Bergen-Belsen camps after liberation

Various concentration camps after liberation in Germany during World War 2. A few U.S. officials interrogate the commander and chief medical officer at the Hadamar Mental facility. Evidence of patient abuse, experiments, and extermination is reviewed. The bodies of the victims of the murder. The body of a woman. Soldiers carry bodies and place them on the ground. The bodies of prisoners who were starved to death and those tortured to death. Bodies piled up near a building. Narrator accounts and scenes show murdered prisoners at many camps. The bodies of prisoners in Landsberg Concentration Camp. The dead bodies of prisoners in various concentration camps who were killed by burning, shooting, starvation or poison gas. The dead body of a mature human infant embyro. The dead bodies of prisoners who were shot or starved to death in concentration camps including Landsberg, Dachau, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, Leipzig, Auschwitz. Piles of dead prisoners who were burnt to death by high voltage wires. A few women are seen who survived the torture in the camps.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054783