ATROCITIES FOUND IN GERMAN CAMPS [Main Title]

Film indicating the horrors discovered by the advancing Allies at thirteen concentration and prison camps.

Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visits camp; punishment beating technique demonstrated; local civilians forced to view corpses. Ziegenheim: Russian and Polish inmates; one day's bread-and-gruel ration. Kaunitz: mass graves; prisoner's tattooed number; wounds treated. Holzen: condition of inmates. Schwarzenfeld: German civilians disinter bodies from mass graves for medical examination and "decent" burial. Göttingen: emaciated British POWs who "marched 900 miles from Poland"; two days' food shown. Hadamar: interrogation of clerk, commandant and doctor; exhuming bodies for examination. Arnstadt: tented camp for Russians and Poles; guard-dog's kennel; corpses of inmates. Belsen: starving inmates; SS guards (men and women) and Commandant Kramer under guard. Gardelegen: the barn burned by the SS to kill 150 people held inside as Allies closed in; the sole survivor. Leipzig: another fire massacre; corpses on ground, in wire. Nordhausen: living prisoners share bunks with corpses of dead fellow-inmates; survivors are carried to ambulances, civilians carry out dead. Buchenwald: survivors and dead; crematoria; visit of US Congress delegation. Map of Germany shows camp locations.

35mm