U.S. Congressmen View War Atrocities At German Concentration Camps

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keywords: wwii, european theater, germany, buchenwald concentration camp, gardelegen massacre, nazi atrocities, crimes against humanity, mass graves

Synopsis: At the invitation of General Eisenhower, a delegation of U.S. Congressmen view the Nazi war atrocities at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, aftermath of the Gardelegen Massacre and German citizens forced to dig up Nazi atrocity mass graves...(read more)

Date: 1945
Duration: 00:01:53
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Germany

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Congressmen View German Concentration Camp

U.S. Congressmen View War Atrocities At German Concentration Camps

A delegation of American Congressmen was invited by General Eisenhower, to visit the liberated Concentration Camp of Buchenwald. They came as the elected representatives of the American people to see for themselves, to see for America, the incontrovertible evidence of Nazi inhumanity. The pitiful living remnants they saw, the dead they saw, were in many cases, the Artists, the Teachers, the Scientists, the Thinkers, the Humanitarians, of a Nazi-dominated Europe. They and the people of now free Europe, will not forget.

Gardelegen - the night before American troops arrived, SS guards herded the prisoners into a barn, poured gasoline on floors and set fire to the building. Those who tried to escape, were fired on with machine-guns. There remained only charred and riddled corpses, which the SS had no time to remove, which the people of Europe, will not forget.

Near the captured city of Nuremberg, the SS and Gestapo had hurriedly buried many of their victims in mass graves, to keep the bodies from falling into Allied hands. They were not successful. German civilians were forced to dig them up and give them decent burials. This too, the Free World, will not forget.