BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP Part 1

Description

Summary: Part of film compiled as evidence and used in the Nuremberg Trials. British officer speaking of the awful conditions they found when they arrived at the camp. Woman doctor prisoner speaks in German of the atrocious acts committed by the Germans. Large group of women inmates stand behind the doctor. British soldiers taking the German camp commandant into custody. Guards are taken prisoner. VS, starving prisoners. Grotesque scenes of dead bodies in field in the camp area. 55 guards clearing bodies from camp area and dumping them in mass grave. German woman guards also dumping the bodies into grave. VS, bulldozer pushing bodies into grave.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities