i george c stevens lieutenant colonel army of the united states hereby certify that from one march nine hundred forty five way from a nine hundred forty five i was on active duty with the united states army signal corps attached to supreme headquarters allied expeditionary forces and among my official duties was the direction of the photographing of nazi concentration camps and prison camps as liberated by allied forces the motion pictures which will be shown following this affidavit were taken by official allied for the graphic teams in the course of their military duties each team being composed of military personnel under the direction of a commissioned officer to the best of my knowledge and belief these motion pictures constitute a true representation of the individuals and seen sport of that they have not been altered in any respect since the exposures were made it comforting narration is it true statement of the facts  circumstances under which these pictures were made your it sees even lieutenant colonel a u s sworn to before me the second day of october nineteenth forty five james  reserve i e r kellogg the denon united states navy arabized certify that from nineteen twenty nine to nineteen forty one i was employed at twentieth century fox studios in hollywood california a director of photographic effect and i am familiar with all photographic techniques since the specs of the pember nineteen twenty one to the present day of the twenty seventh of august nineteenth forty five i have been on active duty with the united states navy i have carefully examined the motion picture film to be shown following this affidavit and i certify that the images of these excerpts from the original negative have not been retouched  nineteen forty five john ford captain united states navy these are the locations of the largest concentration and prison camps maintained throughout germany in occupied europe under the n regime that's the only part covering a representative group of such camps illustrates the general conditions which prevailed and i just victims were russians czechs poles and french the dead are viewed by russian women liberated from slave labor that germany a concentration camp was overrun by the sixth armored division containing mainly hungary and were people of wealth and esteem in their native country among them were young girls of only sixteen years of age the women show the scars of miserable existence under nazi prison rule american doctors examine the victims others suffer from fever tuberculosis typhus and additional communicable disease all existed under appalling conditions in bremen infested quarters and with little or nothing to eat as soon as our troops arrived arrangements were made during move these people from the miserable surroundings under supervision of the american red cross the stricken inmates are removed to a hospital which belong to the german airforce nazis who formerly mao treated them are forced to help look after the patients the staff of german nurses is also forced to attend the victims the women are able to smile for the first time in years at this concentration camp and they go to area the germans starved clubbed and burned to death more than four thousand political prisoners over a period of eight months a few captives survived by hiding in the wood the camp was chosen for a high command inspection led by general dwight d eisenhower also present our generals omar and bradley and george s patton the fourth armored division of general patton's third army liberated this camp early in april the general inmates demonstrate how they were tortured by the nazis american congressmen invited to view the atrocities were told by general eisenhower nothing is covered up you have nothing to conceal the barbarous treatment these people received in the german concentration camps is almost unbelievable i want you to see for yourselves and be the spokesman for the united states grill another group to visit the order of camp is composed of local townspeople including prominent nazi party members they will be taken on a forced tour of the camp site first visitors views on thirty freshly killed bodies lying in the courtyard of the camp where they've been shot down the evening preceding the entry of american tanks these two are identified as slave labor bosses who mounted treated tortured and killed their workers next to the wood shed which the nazis are reluctant to enter but colonel sears demands that they get a close up look at the most gruesome of sites according to reports the local nazis continued their tour of the camp without apparent emotion all denied knowledge of what had taken place in o they are taken to the crematory two miles outside the camp where the list of the atrocities is read for all to hear four thousand or group victims are said to include poles czechs russians belgians frenchmen german jews and german political prisoners a day before these nazis visited the camp of burgermeister aboard a group was forced to view the horrors he and his wife were later found dead in their home apparently suicides american officers arrived at a nazi institution seized by first army troops under the guise of an insane asylum and this has been the headquarters for the systematic murder of thirty five thousand poles russians and germans sent here mainly for political and religious considerations shutters meanwhile at the graveyard attached to the institution bodies are examined for autopsy twenty thousand are buried here fifteen thousand who died in a lethal gas chamber were cremated and their ashes  death books found hidden in the wine cellar about how tomorrow institution revealed part of the story of the mass killings the bulky volumes contained thousands of death certificates profession and nationality unknown was written after each n major bowker performs the autopsy a detailed listing is made of all clinical data substantiated the fact that morphine was issued at the institution without attempt at making a record as many as seventeen of the time died from the morphine injection the investigating officers were told that the nazis never bothered to determine whether a victim may have survived the overdose instead all were hustled off to the graveyard and buried in piles of twenty to twenty four this is bringing down president and it offers evidence of nazi brutality imposed on belgian patriots during the period of german occupation the harlem concentration camp near hanover out of ten thousand polish men brought here ten months prior to april one thousand nine hundred five only two hundred remain prisoners who could walk were removed before american troops entered hanover the others were left to one question most of these men could not remember when they'd last eaten a decent meal many had been beaten tortured soul on their minds  continue even after liberation of the camp some were too far gone when the americans took over victims relate the atrocities story and photographs are made for further documentation about how rose committed a this concentration camp was overrun by american troops in april the prisoners were mainly poles and russians knowledge treated and starved savage watchdogs were used to help g german civilians are forced to dig up the bodies this is the second burial ground for the victims the spot where they were originally buried after the massacre was apparently too close to the town villagers could not tolerate the stench of the death and they themselves moved the bodies american troops view the evidence of nazi barbarism move one of our medical battalions work two days and nights finding wounds and giving medication pictorial evidence of the almost unprecedented crimes perpetrated by the nazis a book involved concentration camp the story in written form is going to change in the official report of the prisoner of war and displaced persons division of the united states group control council which has been forwarded from supreme allied headquarters to the war deprived month in washington it states that one thousand boys under fourteen years of age are included among the twenty thousand still alive at the camp but the survivors are males only and at the recent death rate was about two hundred a day  as representing every european nationality it says the camp was founded when the nazi party first came into power in one thousand thirty three and has been in continuous operation ever since although it's not just populations date from the beginning of the present war  estimate put the camps normal complement at eighty thousand extermination factory i means of extermination starvation complicated by hard work abuse beatings and tortures incredibly crowded sleeping conditions and sicknesses of all types by these means the report continues many tens of thousands of the best leadership personnel of europe have been exterminated bodies stacked run upon the other were found outside the crematory the nazis maintained a building at the camp for medical experiments and there was sections with prisoners as guinea pigs medical twelve hundred civilians were off from the neighboring city of weimar to begin a force tour of the camp there are many smiling faces and according to observers at first the germans act as though this were something being staged for their benefit one of the first things that the german civilians see as they reached the interior of the camp is the parchment displayed on a table for all to gaze upon as a lampshade made of human skin made at the request of an s s officers why large pieces of skin have been used for painting pictures many of an obscene nature continues with a forced inspection of the camps living quarters where the stench filth and measuring defy description they see the result of lack of care and a bad case of trench foot look when they arrive others died after the liberation these other survivor despite german attempts to cover up we found these in the open field conditions was so appalling that heavy equipment had to be brought in by speed the work of the cleaning up