NAZI CONCENTRATION AND PRISON CAMPS Reel 1 · Part 5

Description

COMPILATION FILM REPORT: On conditions found in Nazi concentration and prison camps by advancing Allied Armies during World War II.R.1: Affidavits that attest to authenticity scenes in film are shown and read. Film shows map of concentration and labor camps throughout Europe. At Leipzig Concentration Camp inmates are mostly Czechoslavakian,Polish, Russian and French political prisioners. Survivors tell soldiers about conditions in camp. At Penig Concentration Camp, Hungarian women and others show wounds and U.S. doctors examine them. American Red Cross workers move them to German Air Force hospital were their former captors areforced to care for them. Ohrdurf Concentration Camp is toured by U.S.Congressmen led by Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, commander, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Generals Omar M. Bradley, George S. Patton and others view crematorium and bodies stacked in court yard and woodshed. Col. Hayden Sears, Commander of Combat Command A, 4th Armored Division, takes local townspeople and prominent Nazi party members on tour of camp. At Hadamar Concentration Camp, Maj. Herman Boelk of American War Crimes Investigation Team (WCIT) examines surviviors and performs autopsy of exumed victims. Four-man panel interviews facility director Dr.Waldman and chief male nurse Karl Wille. Meppene Concentration Camp, Stalag VI/C was liberated by 4th Canadian Armored Division. Delousing of prisoners. Inmates demonstrate living conditions and remove dead from camp. At Munster Concentration Camp, Stalag VI/F, 9th Army troops assist AMG (Allied Military Government) officials to care for victims. Breendock Concentration Camp survivors demonstrate tortures methods used by guards. Nordhausen Concentration Camp liberated by 3d Armored Division, 1st Army, a depository for slaves found unfit for work. Medical battalion workers find survivors among stacked corpses. Survivors are evacuated andcorpses are buried in common grave by German male civilians. R.2: Hannover (i.e.,Harlan) Concentration Camp, Red Cross clubmobil provides survivors with food and clothing. AMG sergeant checks list of inmates. Survivors relate conditions at camp and photographs are made to further documentation. At ArnstadtConcentration Camp, villagers are forced to exhume Russian and Polish bodies. Weimar citizens forced to view Buchenwald Concentration Camp. They are shown lampshades made of human skin, shrunken heads and human skin parchment used for painting pictures. At Mauthausen Concentration Camp, U.S.Navy Lt. Jack Taylor from Hollywood, California, standing among other survivors, describes his capture, imprisonment and conditions at camp. At Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Army truck arrives with aid for survivors. Piles of dead, mutilated and emaciatd bodies. Some survivors among dead. Ovens and piles of bone ash on floor of crematorium. Dachau Concentration Camp scenes of site and priest from Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Holland. Prison train box car with intermingled emaciated bodies of survivors and corpses stacked on each other. In open train car, bodies are buried under blanket of snow; dead from exposure. Prisoner bury dead afterliberation. Local townspeople viewed camp. Tour of gas chamber includes clothing changing area, shower bath area, dummy shower heads, intake and outlet pipes, inflow and outtake gas valves. Tour of crematory and shots of survivors. British commander of Royal Artillery describes conditions at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. German Army Schutzstaffel (SS) troops are forced to bury dead and aid survivors. Woman doctor, a prisoner herself, describes conditions at female section of camp. Belsen commander Kramer is taken into custody. Guards bury dead. Bulldozer pushes piles of bodies into mass graves.

Collection

National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records

Series

Motion Picture Films Used as Exhibits and Evidence at World War II War Crimes Trials