EDITED FILM PRESENTED AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS Part 2

Description

Summary: NOTE: This reel is one of seven reels covering the concentration camps in Germany and compiled as evidence and used at the trial. Still photos of certificates and affidavits certifying that the film to be witnessed was taken by US Army officers. Their voices narrate the words of the affidavits and their signatures appear on each. Animated map shows locations of the many concentration camps throughout Germany and its occupied countries. Leipzig camp. At the time of liberation by the American forces, many of the inmates are shown in starving conditions. Those who tried to escape were shot. CUs of the dead. Others were electrocuted by barbed wire. CUs of Bodies in grotesque positions near barbed wire. Penig Camp. Inmates are Hungarian women of wealty families who were used as forced laborers by the Germans. Many suffer from gangerous wounds, TB, and malnutrition. They are evacuated from the camp by US soldiers, and arrive at a German hospital.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities