Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
Nazi atrocities filmed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps - Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp: Footage of camp after liberation by the 3rd Arm Div, 1st US Army. This was a sub-camp of Dora-Mittelbau which held Polish & Russian prisoners too weak or ill for work. When the 104th US Infantry Division liberated the camp on April 12, 1945, they found thousands of corpses and many more barely living skeletons. Footage of the camp as well as German civilians being forced to burry the dead in mass graves can be found here.
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
Title card reading "Nordhausen Concentration Camp". Several LS/GV/MS camp w/an unimaginable amount of corpses lying on the ground. MS Red Cross flag flying w/ruins of camp in BG. GV military police & medics unloading stretchers from trucks. MS military police (MPs) & medics carrying bodies away on stretchers.
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
GV/MSs bodies inside hangars in which the prisoners were kept. Gruesome pan of hanger filled w/bodies, a few living inmates are lying amongst the many corpses. MS weak surviving prisoner being handed a blanket. MSs medics carrying stretchers past the weak surviving prisoners.
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
MS/MCUs sunken faces of survivors. MS army medics assisting weak survivor onto a stretcher, he clasps his hands together as if thanking God or his rescuers. MCU man on stretcher w/hands clasped. CU inmate in shock being carried on stretcher. MSs medics carrying inmates on stretchers. MS/MCU survivors eating.
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
MS as one prisoner carries another to the medical van. Several MS/MCUs of prisoners getting into medical van, a few inmates are coughing, perhaps a sign of tuberculosis, which was a widespread problem. GV as medical van drives away.
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
Several LS/GV/MS as civilian men from town of Nordhausen are forced to assist in burial of victims. Gruesome MSs of corpses. Several graphic MSs of bodies being moved by German civilians for burial.
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
Several MSs German civilians moving bodies, intercut w/MSs of corpses. MS Priest, who has set up an altar on the hood of a jeep, administering Last Rites sacrament as the corpses are carried away for burial by the German civilians. MSs German men moving the decomposed bodies for burial.
Nazi War Crimes: Nordhausen Concentration/Labor Camp
LS/GV crowd of German civilian men walking down the road carrying shovels. LS burial area w/a couple GIs walking about. GV burial site w/a few GIs stand by long ditches full of corpses. MLS/MS row of corpses in the ditch.