Upon arrival in the Auschwitz camp, victims were forced to hand over all their belongings. Inmates' belongings were routinely packed and shipped to Germany for distribution to civilians or use by German industry.
The Auschwitz camp was liberated in January This Soviet military footage shows civilians and Soviet soldiers sifting through possessions of people deported to the Auschwitz killing center. US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 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. British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in April They filmed statements from members of their own forces.
In this British military footage, British army chaplain T. Stretch recounts his impressions of the camp. The Dachau concentration camp , northwest of Munich, Germany, was the first regular concentration camp the Nazis established in About twelve years later, on April 29, , US armed forces liberated the camp.
There were about 30, starving prisoners in the camp at the time. Here, soldiers of the US Seventh Army document conditions in the camp. They also require German civilians to tour the camp and confront Nazi atrocities. Here, medics and soldiers of the US 3rd Armored Division evacuate sick and dying survivors of the camp. The Mauthausen concentration camp was established shortly after the German annexation of Austria 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.
