National Archives and Records Administration -
ARC 43452, LI 238.2 -
NAZI CONCENTRATION
CAMPS -
DVD Copied by Ann
Galloway.
Series:
Motion Picture Films
Used as Exhibits and
Evidence at
World War II War Crimes Trials, compiled
1945 -
1947. COMPILATION FILM REPORT: On conditions found in
Nazi concentration camps in
Germany and
Belgium by advancing
Allied Armies during World War II. Consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and tortue.
R.1:
Army Lt. Col. George C. Stevens,
Navy Lt. E.
Ray Kellogg and
U.S. Chief of Counsel
Robert H. Jackson read exhibited affidavits which attest to authenticity of scenes in film.
Map of Europe shows locations of concentration camps in
Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Czechoslovokia,
Danzing,
Denmark,
France, Germany,
Isle of Jersey,
Latvia,
Netherlands,
Poland and
Yugoslavia. At Leipsig
Concentration Camp, there are piles of dead bodies, and many living
Russian,
Czechoslovakian,
Polish and
French prisoners. At Penig Concentration Camp,
Hungarian women and others display wounds.
Doctors treat patients and U.S.
Red Cross workers move them to
German Air Force hospital where their former captors are forced to care for them.
R.2: At Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, inspection team composed of Allied military leaders, members of
U.S. Congress and local townspeople tours camp. Among them are
Generals Dwight David Eisenhower,
Supreme Headquaters
Allied Expeditionary Forces commander;
Omar Nelson Bradley; and George S. Patten.
General Eisenhower speaks with Congressmen. They see bodies heaped on grill at crematorium and Polish, Czechoslovakian, Russian,
Belgian,
German Jews and
German political prisoners. Col. Heyden
Sears,
Combat Command A,
4th Armored Division commander, forces local townspeople to tour camp. U.S. officers arrive at Hadamar Concentration Camp, where Polish, Russian and German political and religious dissidents were murdered. Maj.
Herman Boelke of U.S.
War Crimes Investigation Team (
WCIT) examines survivors.
Bodies are exhumed from mass graves for examination, identification and burial. Four-man panel interviews facility director
Dr. Waldman and chief male nurse
Karl Wille.
R.3:At Breendonck Concentration Camp, Belgium, methods of torture are demonstrated. At
Harlan Concentration Camp near
Hannover, U.S. Red Cross aides Polish survivors.
Allied troops and able-bodied survivors bury dead. At Arnstadt Concentration Camp, German villagers are forced to exhume Polish and Russian bodies from mass graves.
R.4: At
Nordhausen Concentration Camp, there are piles of bodies.
Troops treat, feed and remove survivors who are mainly Polish, Russian and French. At
Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Navy Lt.
Jack H.
Taylor stands with fellow survivors and describes his capture, imprisonment and conditions at Mauthausen.
Volunteers bathe victims.
R.5: At
Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Army trucks arrive with aid for survivors. Piles of dead, mutilated and emaciated bodies. Some survivors among dead.
Huge ovens
and piles of bone ash on floor of crematorium.
Civilians from nearby Weimar are forced to tour camp. They see exhibits of lampshades made of human skin, and two shrunken heads.
R.6:
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, former prisoner, describes conditions in female section of camp. Belson commander
Kramer is taken into custody. German guards bury dead.
Bulldozer pushes piles of bodies into mass graves.
This movie is part of the collection: FedFlix
Producer: National Archives and Records Administration
Language:
English
Keywords: archives.gov; public.resource.org
Creative Commons license:
CC0 1.0 Universal
- published: 15 Dec 2013
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