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26. Samuel Gruber describes public hangings and beatings in the Lublin-Lipowa camp
forced to build the Majdanek concentration camp. In 1942, he escaped from the Germans, spending the rest ... harsh treatment. Among the camps in which he was interned was Lublin-Lipowa, where he was among those
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27. Leon Bass describes his knowledge of Nazi camps during and after World War II
Leon describes what he knew about Nazi concentration camps and the
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28. Edward Adler describes roundup and deportation to the town of Oranienburg, near the Sachsenhausen camp
was later deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin
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29. Siegfried Halbreich describes arrival at and brutality in the Gross-Rosen camp
Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was ... Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin in October 1939. He was among the first Polish Jews imprisoned in Sachsenhausen
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30. Siegfried Halbreich describes conditions and forced labor in the Gross-Rosen camp
Siegfried was deported to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he was ... Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin in October 1939. He was among the first Polish Jews imprisoned in Sachsenhausen
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31. Ruth Webber describes witnessing a brutal punishment in the camp at Ostrowiec
concentration camps before eventually being deported to Auschwitz. When Ruth ... camp outside the ghetto. Ruth also went into hiding, either in nearby woods or within the camp itself
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32. US veteran Ross Snowdon describes the camp quarry and barracks and the burial of the dead in Mauthausen
the largest Nazi concentration camps in the country: Mauthausen and
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33. Liberation of Dachau
The Dachau concentration camp, northwest of Munich, Germany, was ... the first regular concentration camp the Nazis established in 1933. About twelve years later, on April ... 29, 1945, US armed forces liberated the camp. There were about 30,000 starving prisoners in the camp ... at the time. Here, soldiers of the US Seventh Army document conditions in the camp. They also require
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34. Liberation of Mauthausen
The Mauthausen concentration camp was established shortly after the German annexation of Austria ... 1945. In this footage, starving survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp eat soup and scramble ... (1938). Prisoners in the camp were forced to perform crushing labor in a nearby stone quarry and, later ... to construct subterranean tunnels for rocket assembly factories. US forces liberated the camp in May
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35. US soldiers care for Dachau survivors
The Dachau concentration camp, northwest of Munich, Germany, was the first regular concentration ... camp the Nazis established in 1933. About twelve years later, on April 29, 1945, US armed forces ... liberated the camp. There were some 30,000 starving prisoners in the camp at that time. In this footage ... soldiers of the US Seventh Army feed and disinfect survivors of the camp.
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36. Dachau after liberation
The Dachau concentration camp, northwest of Munich, Germany, was ... the first regular concentration camp the Nazis established in 1933. About twelve years later, on April ... 29, 1945, US armed forces liberated the camp. There were about 30,000 starving prisoners in the camp
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37. Trial testimony against Albert Speer
Francois Boix, a concentration camp survivor, testifies about Albert Speer's visit to the ... Mauthausen concentration camp. Boix identifies Speer by pointing to him in the defendants' dock.
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38. Reactions to film shown at Nuremberg
The film "Nazi Concentration Camps" was presented in the courtroom on November 29, 1945, and ... entered as evidence in the trial. It was filmed as Allied troops liberated the concentration camps. This
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39. Allied prisoner of war describes work details
Most Allied prisoners of war (POWs) were treated well compared to inmates of concentration camps ... But, as former Dutch POW Captain Boullard explains here at Dachau concentration camp, some were
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40. Victims of medical experiments testify during Medical Case
concentration camps. Here, concentration camp survivors Maria Kusmierczuk and Jadwiga Dzido, who had been
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41. Liberation of Ohrdruf
concentration camp shortly after the liberation of the camp. As American forces had approached, SS camp guards ... shot the remaining prisoners before abandoning the camp. Confirmation of such atrocities prompted the ... US military to require Nazis and local German civilians to view the camps.
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42. William Denson describes counsel provided to accused war criminals
the Dachau concentration camp war crimes ... trial. He was also asked to serve as chief prosecutor for a series of other concentration camp trials
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43. Scenes from the liberation of Buchenwald
The Buchenwald camp was one of the largest concentration camps. The Nazis built it in 1937 in a ... wooded area northwest of Weimar in central Germany. US forces liberated the Buchenwald camp on April 11 ... 1945. When US troops entered the camp, they found more than 20,000 prisoners. This footage shows scenes ... that US cameramen filmed in the camp, survivors, and the arrival of Red Cross trucks.
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44. George Salton describes liberation by American forces
spent three years during the war in ten different concentration camps. In 1945 he was in the Woebbelin ... camp in Germany. After liberation, he spent over two years in various ... displaced persons camps. George immigrated to the United States in October 1947.
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45. German civilians forced to view atrocities committed in Buchenwald
US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945. Here, US ... soldiers escort German civilians from the nearby town of Weimar through the Buchenwald camp. The American ... liberating troops had a policy of forcing German civilians to view the atrocities committed in the camps.
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46. Liberation of Mauthausen and Gusen
This film footage is excerpted from documentary film titled "Mauthausen Concentration Camp ... Gusen camp. Filmed by US cameramen, the footage opens with a broad view of buildings in the Gusen camp ... Excerpts that follow show scenes in the camps, American care of the liberated prisoners, and Austrian
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47. Liberation of Dora-Mittelbau
US forces liberated the Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen) concentration ... camp in April 1945. Here, medics and soldiers of the US 3rd Armored ... Division evacuate sick and dying survivors of the camp.
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48. William Denson describes some of the emotional difficulties for witnesses in recalling their experiences
the Dachau concentration camp war crimes ... trial. He was also asked to serve as chief prosecutor for a series of other concentration camp trials
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49. Liberation of Buchenwald
The US army filmed the weak and emaciated survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp in ... camp in April 1945.
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50. Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
After British soldiers liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, they forced ... the remaining SS guards to help bury the dead. Here, survivors of the camp taunt their former