"First actual newsreel pictures of atrocities in Nazi murder camps. Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here Is The Truth" (Real-life horror pictures revealing the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis in their murder camps) Grasleben: Wounded and emaciated Yanks, captured in von Runstedt's bulge attack of last winter, are fed and given medical care by the Yank armies of liberation. Hadamar: Protected by gas masks, grave diggers open reeking graves at this converted insane asylum. They discover that 35,000 political prisoners had been slain here, largely by poisoning. Camp Ohrdruf : General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley can hardly believe their eyes when they view torture-gallows, heaps of charred human bodies and lime pits filled with corpses. Although they recoil, Nazi officials are forced to enter barns containing rows of decomposing, lime-sprinkled bodies. Buchenwald: 21,000 prisoners living in utter filth, stumble around with their broken skulls. Agonized corpses lie everywhere with large tattoed numbers on their sunken stomachs. Two roast ovens were used as crematoria. "Nordhausen: Starved corpses strew the ground. Creeping, jabbering, breathing skeletons are laoded into ambulances for possible treatment. Plump German civilians are forced to handle corpses with their bare hands and carry them to huge mass graves for a semi-civilized burial." scenes of prisoners liberated from camps, given broth and medical attention; graves uncovered, interrogations to uncover truth; Ohrdruf camp viewed by Ike, Bradley, Patton; (2) Nations Meet To Map World Security Plan - "The San Francisco Conference of 46 United Nations, summoned to draft a charter for a post-war organization to secure peace, is officially opened by Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. In a speech from the White House, President Truman states 'if we do not want to fdie together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.'" scenes of delegates arrive; first session opens with gavel held by Stettinius, Truman speech. (complete newsreel).
This film contains extremely graphic scenes of human suffering, please exercise caution when viewing.
Compilation footage of Nazi concentration camps in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The footage was gathered by the US Department of Defense as part of the effort to conduct war crimes trials.
This copy was dubbed from a video copy at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
Compilation footage of Nazi concentration camps in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The footage was gathered by the US Department of Defense as part of the effort to conduct war crimes trials.
This copy was dubbed from a video copy at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
Click to visit the photo gallery
A free audio short story for you.
Friedrich Schooler is a fifteen-year old boy growing up in rural Germany during the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1937, having already come to terms with his homosexuality and all that this incurs for him in this era. Shortly after a visit from his Aunt Gerta, Friedrich's father dies, leaving him and his mother, Marta, to fend for themselves. It is around this time that Friedrich meets Jens. Their love flourishes, and both boys have to hide their feelings for one another, for in Germany at this time, Homosexuality is punished by prison, and as a twist of the Nazi's, probable death in a concentration camp. This short-story audio opens when Friedrich is a prisoner in Buchenwald. He has grown much in life but is suffring from the cruelty of the SS. A new day begins as Friedrich opens his eyes to be once again reminded of where he is.
I hope you enjoy this audio short story (just click on the play button and wait for the audio). You can buy the full novel here if you so desire. I hope you do.
Brian Coey.
Friedrich Schooler Went away by Brian Coey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.lulu.com.