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keywords: WWII, European Theater, Concentration Camps, Nazi Death Camps, War Crimes Against Humanity, War Atrocities

Synopsis: The horror of German death camps with scenes of Leipzig Concentration Camp, Penig Concentration Camp, Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Hadamar Euthanasia Center, Breendonck Concentration Camp, Nordhausen Concentration Camp...(read more)

Date: 1945
Duration: 00:24:45
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Germany, Europe

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Nazi Concentration Camps And Prisons

Nazi Concentration Camps And Prisons

The horror of German Concentration Camps and Prisons, as documented by advancing Allied Armies during World War Two. Scenes of Leipzig, Penig, Ohrdruf, Hadamar Euthanasia Center, Breendonck, Nordhausen slave labor camp.

Animated map showing the largest concentration camps and prisons in Germany and occupied Europe maintained by the Nazi regime.

00:04:10:13 Leipzig Concentration Camp

Gruesome, horrific scenes of political prisoners burned and shot to death fleeing out of a wooden building torched by SS troopers and a Gestapo Agent at Leipzig. Bodies of prisoners on barb wire electric fence at Leipzig. The Leipzig victims were Russians, Czechs, Poles & French. Bodies of prisoners viewed by Russian women liberated from slave labor.

00:05:27:03 Penig Concentration Camp

The prisoners of Penig were mainly Hungarian women. Women lying in beds at the camp. Allied Medics and doctors attends to wounds on the victims. Women Victims are evacuated from the Penig camp to a hospital that belonged to the German Air Force. Nazis guards from Penig camp and German nurses at hospital are forced to attend to and aid the victims. Women inmates from Penig camp in German hospital.

00:08:38;13 Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

Ohrdruf was a Nazi forced labor and concentration camp near Weimar and the town of Gotha Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network and the first concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley and General George S. Patton at Ohrduf Camp. View of rack used by Nazis when whipping inmates. Horrific scenes of bodies of nameless victims in wooden shed. Crude crematory made of railway tracks. Local townspeople including Nazi Party members are forced to tour Ohrdruf Camp. A German medical Major is forced to accompany the townspeople. Bodies of thirty prisoners killed the preceding evening laying in courtyard. Two German slave labor bosses in custody. Townspeople are shown bodies on crude crematory.

00:14:37:11 Hadamar Euthanasia Center

Scenes of the Hadamar Institute in Hadamar Germany that became one of the Nazi T-4 Euthanasia Program sites in Germany, also referred to as Action T-4 or Aktion T4 in German. T4 was an abbreviation of “Tiergartenstrabe 4”. American Major Herman Bolker, Head of the American War Crimes Investigation Team, arrives at the Hadamar Euthanasia Center. This building was called the “house of shutters” by the Hadamar townspeople. American Military personnel visit the building where, under the guise of an insane asylum, 35,000 people were murdered. American medical personnel examine emaciated patients. At the graveyard attached to the Hadamar Euthanasia Center bodies are exhumed for autopsy, horrific scenes of bodies being dug up. American Major Herman Bolker performs autopsy at grave site as two assistants record all clinical data. American Military Officers interrogate Dr. Vollman, Top Nazi of the Hadamar Institution and Karl Willig, Chief Male Nurse.

00:19:15;07 Breendonck Concentration Camp

Nazi Breendonck Prison in Belgium. Demonstration of how the victims where tied up for administering vicious beatings. Close-up of barded wire wrapped stick used to beat prisoners. Other methods of torture used by the Nazi guards. Victim shows scars caused by repeated beatings and cigarette burns. A woman discloses the scars from a beating.

00:21:54:04 Nordhausen Concentration Camp

Nordhausen was a sub-camp of the concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau. The camp was created by the SS for prisoners too weak or ill to work in the tunnels of Dora on the farication of the German V1 and V2 rockets. Nordhausen was a “Vemichtungslager” or extermination camp. Amid the bodies of dead prisoners are live prisoners too weak to move. American medical personnel shown evacuating the victims for transfer to hospitals. The German Burgermaster or town mayor was ordered to provide 600 male civilians to bury the 2500 unburied bodies in the camp. Shows a Priest administering last rites as bodies are removed for burial. Scene of civilians with shovels reporting to camp to bury the victims. Shows mass grave of the 2500 Nordhausen victims.

00:04:39;09

Gruesome, horrific scenes of political prisoners burned and shot to death fleeing out of a wooden building torched by SS troopers at Leipzig

00:04:54;04

Bodies of prisoners on barb wire electric fence at Leipzig

00:07:10;13

Women Victims are evacuated from the Penig camp to a hospital that belonged to the German Air Force

00:09:01;08

Scenes of Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton at Ohrduf Concentration Camp

00:14:37;11

Scenes of the Hadamar Institute building in Hadamar, Germany that became one of the Nazi T-4 Euthanasia Program sites in Germany

00:14:58;12

American medical personnel examine emaciated patients at the Hadamar Euthanasia Center