Liberated Nazi Prisons & Concentration Camps (1945) | US Army Signal Corps, War Dept. Official Film

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U.S. Army Signal Corps - War Department Official Film: Misc. #1190 "These scenes of conditions Found in liberated prison and concentration camps are from the official film received by the Army Pictorial Service from Signal corps photographic units." Ardeantine Caves, Italy | Massacre of FFI Men, Paris, France | Paris Torture Chambers | Gambsheim, France | Bande, Belgium | Arnstadt Concentration Camp | Leipzig Concentration Camp - Gardelegen | Penig Concentration Camp | Ohrduf Labor Camp | Hadamar Concentration Camp | Meppene Concentration Camp - Stalag VI-C | Munster Concentration Camp - Stalag VI-F | Demonstration of Gestapo Methods | Nordhausen Slave Labor Camp | Hanover Concentration Camp | Buchenwald Concentration Camp | Footage Description: Corpses of Italians executed by the Nazis are removed from the Ardeatine caves; last rites are given the victims. A funeral cortege for FFI dead moves through Paris. Shows a Gestapo torture chamber in the city; corpses of US airmen in a field at Gambsheim; the removal of corpses from a cellar in Bande, Belgium; and last rites and burial of the victims. Corpses are removed from a cellar in Stovelot, Belgium, and buried in a common grave. German civilians under guard exhume victims at Arnstadt, and bury corpses at Leipzig. Emaciated Hungarian women are evacuated from a concentration camp. Shows hospitalized inmates. Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton inspect Ohrdruf camp. Shows whipping posts, crematoriums, and corpses. Civilians taken on a tour of the camp. Shows emaciated inmates of Hadamar, hospital. Corpses are exhumed and buried; autopsies are made. Inquests are held at Hadamar with Dr. Wahlmann and Karl Muller (male nurse, morphine). At Meppene, soldiers delousing liberated Russian POWs. Amputees walk by. Prisoners search garbage cans for food. Crowd of disabled prisoners walk by camera in group. Survivors lying down outside, boy passes by in cart/wheelchair. Various shots of wounded/disabled prisoners eating soup, sleeping. Stretcher goes by with naked corpses. CUs, corpses. Three stretchers carried by four men at shoulder height pass in front of barbed wire fence. In Paderborn, Russian soldier argues with person off camera. Liberated prisoners raiding food stores at camp, breaking windows, crowds grabbing for food, survivors eating desperately. In Munster, LS, buildings (brick and warehouses). Man washing feet. Liberated French POWs crouched around pots/fires, eating, CUs. Water distributed from tank on wheels. "Demonstration of Gestapo Methods" Barracks, coffins, torture demonstrations at Breendonck. Corpses at Nordhausen. US medical crews evacuate survivors. MS, corpses. Survivors assisted onto litters, evacuated for treatment, man praying/crying, eating, loaded onto ambulances. Victims buried in a common grave by German civilians, corpses carried (gruesome), priest at jeep. Civilians march with shovels. Soldiers stand by mass graves. Red Cross workers feed soup to Hannover survivors. CUs, men eating. Severely wounded men lying under blankets inside barracks. Burial. Several survivors gather for group photograph against barn wall, to document atrocities. Courtyard, "Jedem das Seine" gate, male survivors, tattoos on stomach, survivors, corpses, torture demonstration, gold extracts, and crematoria at Buchenwald. German civilians march along country road to tour Weimar camp. Parchment made of human skin, shrunken heads, and emaciated/wounded survivors. Truck bed of corpses. Pan to crowd looking at inmates lined up behind barbed wire. Original Archive Number: 111 M 1190 R1 + 111 M 1190 R2 + 111 M 1190 R3 + 111 M 1190 R4 + 111 M 1190 R5 + 111 M 1190 R6 Producer: US Army Signal Corps Locale: Breendonck, Belgium; Hadamar, Germany; Meppen, Germany; Paderborn, Germany; Muenster, Germany; Belgium; Leipzig, Germany; Penig, Germany; Arnstadt, Germany; Ohrdruf, Germany; Nordhausen, Germany; Hannover, Germany; Buchenwald, Germany