concentration camps in the aftermath following world war two you got to see that this is a documentary of what really went out of those camps then we have all these holocaust deniers etc well well wait to see who this man will be no question in your mind and you know as the generations continue people forget they forget something they didn't experience and that's really sad we can never forget what happened at the nazi war camps i can't talk too long because the film is just really long it's going to get every bit warm and we got so without any further ado let's get into part one now nazi concentration camps here we  go i george c stevens lieutenant colonel army of the united states here by certified that from one marched nineteen forty five to eight maybe 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 scenes for it they have not been altered in any respect since the exposures were made the accompanying narration is a true statement of the facts and under which these pictures were made george c stevens lieutenant colonel a us sworn to before me the second day of october nineteen forty five james p donovan command united states naval reserve august lieutenant united states navy here by sort of fire that from nineteen twenty nine to nineteen forty one i was employed at twentieth century fox studios in hollywood california as a director of photographic effect and i am familiar with all photographic technique the length of time for nineteen forty one to the present date of the twenty seventh of august nineteen forty five i have been on active august nineteen forty five john ford captain united states navy these are the locations of the largest concentration maintained throughout germany in occupied europe under the nazi regime the only part covering a representative group of such camps illustrates the general conditions which prevailed more than two hundred political prisoners were burned to death at this concentration camp near like six others among the original total of three hundred fifty inmates were shot down by german only guards as they dashed from the prison to celebrate the arrival of american troops outside the city the atrocity story is told by the few managed to survive they relate how twelve s s troopers and the gestapo agent lured two hundred twenty starving prisoners into a big wooden building at this camp sprayed the structure with an unfathomable liquid and then applied the labor germany a concentration camp was overrun by the sixth armored division containing mainly hungary and who are 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 and burman infested quarters and with little or nothing to eat as soon as our troops arrived arrangements  miserable surroundings 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 in the go to area the germans starved 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 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 a barbarous treatment these people received in the german concentration camps is almost unbelievable i want you to see for yourselves and be spokesman for the united states the general and his party next see the crude woodland crematory actually a grill made of railway tracks here the bodies of victims were cremated charred remains of several inmates still a heap to top the grill another group to visit the or group of campers composed of local townspeople including prominent nazi party members they will be taken on a forced tour of the camp site by colonel haydn cedars commander of before armored divisions combat command which captured or a german medical major is compelled to accompany the townspeople first visitors bureau 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 who are identified as slave labor bosses who treated tortured and killed their workers s the labor bosses enter 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 of victims are said to include poles czechs russians belgians frenchmen german jews and german political prisoners 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 was still alive are examined by major hermann bowker of the american war crimes investigation team the townspeople on how to mark germany called this place the house of shutters interrogating the institution head doctor on the taller man was the top nazi in charge of the place the other man entering the room is chief mayo nurse he admits to killing inmates with overdoses of morphine the testimony of other witnesses substantiated the fact that morphine was issued at the institution without attempt at making a record as many as seventeen at 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 the prisoners are removed to await trial ottomar judge told investigators that when the ten thousand victim died the institution heads and nazi officials staged a celebration this is bringing down president and it offers evidence of nazi brutality imposed on belgian patriots during the period of german occupation many of the brits remain untouched such as the blood stained coffins demonstrating how the victims were tied up for administering vicious beating another method for running a patriotic helpless while he was a others show what happened to them as a result of both beatings and cigarette burns  and demonstrates the manner in which is crotch was split by the nazis beating concentration camp near hanover out of ten thousand polish men brought here ten months prior to april one thousand nine hundred forty five only two hundred remain prisoners who could walk were removed before american troops entered hanover the others were left to when questioned most of these men could not remember when they'd last eaten a decent meal many had been beaten tortured soul on their minds had fail others bunk together to keep their frail bodies warm the deaths continue even after liberation of the camp some are too far gone when the americans took over the victims relate the atrocity story and photographs are made for further documentation about committed a the concentration camp was overrun by american troops in april the prisoners were mainly poles and russians treated and starved savage watch dogs were used to help guard the camp 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 could not tolerate the stench of the death and they themselves moved the bodies the marks of violent deaths move one of our medical battalions work two days and nights finding wounds and giving medication