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Death Mills Part 1 of 2

Reel Number: 200559-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1946

Country: Austria,Germany,Poland

Location: Auschwitz,Belsen,Buchenwald,Hadamar,Majdanek,Mauthausen,Ohrdruf

TC Begins: 12:00:00

TC Ends: 12:11:08

Duration: 00:11:08

Death Mills [Part 1 of 2] Crowd of Germans carry 1100 crosses for French graves. VS liberation of concentration camps; inmates welcoming liberators. ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ over Auschwitz gates. Emaciated prisoners in striped uniforms smiling. Prisoners scramble for potatoes on passing truck; man eats horse manure in street. 12:03:02 US troops carry wounded out of camps on stretchers; dead on stretchers. Auschwitz - Soviet doctors examine prisoners inc. emaciated children. 12:04:09 Allied leaders - Eisenhower (Ike) visit to Ohrdruf; inmates demonstrate torture instruments; bodies strewn on ground. Archbishop of Canterbury visits camp. Civilians of Allied Investigation Commission tour camp. Dungeons, bodies, ovens. Bodies piled on trucks and in rooms. Pile of burned bodies and ash. 12:05:57 Torture chamber at Maidaneck; guillotine; gas chambers; canisters of Zyklon. Bodies. Ovens w/ remains. Bundles of clothing; warehouse w/ shoes and toys; human hair in sacks. Buchenwald - jewellery, teeth etc. taken from bodies. 12:08:35 Bodies in freight cars; soldiers pull body from river. AV bodies. CU bodies. Barn where over a thousand were burnt alive by Germans. German guard captured at Mauthausen. 12:10:01 LS smoke rises over Belsen; MCU Camp Commander Josef Kramer - ‘The Beast of Belsen’. German women prison guards in uniform file out of hut. German prisoners. Hadamar asylum interrogation room - camp commander and chief physician questioned. Horrific. WWII. Nazi war atrocities. War crimes. Holocaust.

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