POLITICAL PRISONERS' CONCENTRATION CAMP, LANGENSTEIN (?), GERMANY Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 4221 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1655-1656) Card 1 of 2 FTLM: ARCH & APC MP 938' ea Silent 111 LIB 5775 ADC SPX-G 4221-1 POLITICAL PRISONERS' CONCENTRATION CAMP Langenstein (?), Germany 18 Apr 1945 (NOTE: The following footage shows a Nazi Concentration Camp near Lagenstein in the Harz Mountains where 6400 political prisoners of French, Polish, and Russian extraction were held and forced to labor in the construction of a vast underground factory project. During the ten months in which the prisoners lived in this camp, 1700 persons died of disease and starvation. After its occupation by Task Force CCB of the 8th Armored Div on the 13th of April, the prisoners continued to die at the rate of 25 per day.) MSs, sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and placed in ambulance. MSs, CUs, unburied bodies of the dead lie in an open pit. MSs, Maj Gen Raymond S McLain, CG of the XIX Corps, looking into the pit. VS, group of US officers and Gen McLain inspect camp. Record Group 111 MS, Pan, deceased prisoners lying in open pit. Accession III-NAV-210 MSs, several thin, starved=looking prisoners talk to US officer and a doctor. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35 Avenue, LIC 1, N.Y. ERBS/hs Signal Corps ADC 4221 Card 2 of 2 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1655-1656) FILM: ARCH & APC MP 9381 ea Silent 111 ADC 4221-2 LIB 5775 SPX-G POLITICAL PRISONERS¹ CONCENTRATION CAMP (CONT'D) Langenstein (?), Germany 18 Apr 1945 VS, sick prisoners on litters are carried from ambulances to the 20th Field Hospital tents in Halberstadt. CUs, medical officer, wearing mask over his mouth, washes the emaciated body of a prisoner. MSs, prisoners' uniforms and personal effects are burned near tent. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35 Avenue, LIC 12 N.Y. ERBS/hs

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities