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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 and 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 D.

Diamond command United States Naval 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 as

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 distorted or otherwise altered in any

respect and are true copies of the original That held in the vault of the United

States Army as they go Corps these acts are comprised Like thousand feet of film

selected from eighty thousand feet all of which I have reviewed and all of which is

similar in character to these actor in our calendar Lieutenant United States Navy

one two before me the twenty seventh day of August 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 Nazi regime. That's 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 likes of others among the original total of three hundred

fifty inmates were shot down by German only guards as they dashed from the prison

huts to celebrate the arrival of American troops outside the city the atrocity

story is told by the few who managed to survive they relate how twelve S.S.

Troupers on the Gestapo agent moored two hundred twenty starving prisoners into

a big wooden building at this camp sprayed the structure within and from

a bowl liquid and then applied the torch machine guns set up at various vantage

points mowed down many victims who ran from the burning building some miraculously

escaped a hail of bullets but were electrocuted by the live wires of

a fence which was the final hurdle for those fleeing the flight.

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.

Some have gangland as will.

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's.

A see the wood shed where

a line covered bodies are stacked in layers in the stench is overpowering.

Former inmates demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazis. The.

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.

The General and his party next to 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 laid to top the 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 by Colonel Haydn Cedars commander of the four

armored divisions combat command which captured or group.

A German medical major is compelled to. Company the townspeople.

Colonel Sears stands by as the Nazis are informed but they must see all the horrors

of the camp.

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. For. 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 order if.

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 that was still alive or 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.

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 interred.

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 name.

A crosses are lined up ending the arrival of W C I T officers.

Major Bowker performs the autopsy

a detailed listing is made of all clinical data. Interrogating

the institution head doctor volume on the taller man was the top Nazi in charge of

the place the other man entering the room is probably 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 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. Of.

The prisoners are removed to await trial on how to market judge told investigators

that when the ten thousand victims 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 horror exhibits remain untouched such as the blood stained coffins.

Demonstrating how the victims were tied up for

a minute. String vicious beating. A

barbed wire stick was used on the backs of the men.

Another method for running

a patriarch helpless while he was attacked by his gestapo guards.

And Nazis also would tie

a man in chains in this manner and then apply the turn to get.

Brolin made from screw and how it was you.

I picked him shows scars caused by repeated beatings.

Others show what happened to them as

a result of both beatings and cigarette burns. I

Belgium demonstrates the manner in which is pride she was split by the Nazis.

A woman discloses the results of

a beating. 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 starve and die I mean get relief was provided by the man with

the arrival of a Red Cross scrub Mobley

a man who broke into tears when they were given hot soup either food and cigarettes

and quality.

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 had failed.

Some of the inmates are too weak to leave their bunks or even eat.

Others bunk together to keep their frail bodies while. The deaths

continue even after liberation of the camp some were too far gone when the

Americans took over.

And I am Sergeant checks the list of inmates. The victims

relate the atrocities story and photographs are made for further documentation

about how Rose committed at the Hanover camp.

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 guard the camp. Of 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 to this site now they again must exist in the crosshairs this time under

armed persuasion.

Victims bear the marks of violent deaths.

American troops view the evidence of Nazi barbarism for.

A labor camp Nordhaus liberated by the third Armored Division for

a start at least three thousand political prisoners died here in the brutal hands

of S.S.

Troops and are German criminals who with him got more now than the one of the OS of

choice for slaves found unfit to work in the underground plants and in other German

camps in fact.

Amid the corpses are human skeletons too weak to move.

One of our medical battalions work two days and nights finding wounds and giving

medication for advanced cases of starvation and tuberculosis are often no cure

survivors are shown being evacuated for treatment in allied hospitals.

And victims are mainly Poles and Russians with considerable numbers of French and

other nationalities also included in the camp roster.

Burgermeister of Nordhaus in that order to provide six hundred German male

civilians who will inter the twenty five hundred I'm very bodies became.

A priest of ministers last rites for the dead while the corpses are being carried

to the hillside for. MARY.

Ma'am the actual burial in common graves of the twenty five hundred North housing

victims.

Of

a kind of in your great dark age Taylor us maybe I would go for and believe it or not

the first time I've ever been in the movies I've been working overseas in occupied

countries in the Balkans pretty much. In our program for forty four

hours oh I'd offer up at the hospital. I was up to the temperature first

prize

a couple of early people. Even though I was in uniforms of really beaten and

considered none prisoner of war Thank you panel. For I was told for months

when the Russians neared the end of. I was taken to the one thousand concentration

larger than extermination camp or worse in Germany. Or

we have been starving and beaten. And killed.

Fortunately my parents had come. To American officers at least have

been for you here and there has been fair game one for you as they were Officer of

their guard and I. Think variously Army officers are getting by gad in the dark.

For me when you have. My respect where I care for getting my beating and

beating with. My. Exposure and.

Then to God No make it forty eight hours having water on going on them in the

middle of winter starvation. Dark and pushing over

a hundred foot cliff. This. Is all true has been seen and is now being

reported. Again and your. Uniform I came here in uniform

but it was taken away from me in the presence of my number and USA. I have

been condemned to death and another American also in the care of. Course in the

army division going through

a. 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 nationalities

and prison numbers are tattooed on the stomachs of the inmates

The report lists the surviving inmates 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 run estimate put

the camps normal complement at eighty thousand

and the official report the broken board camp is termed an 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 scientist came from Berlin periodically to

reinforce the experimental staff in particular new toxins and to toxins were tried

out on prisoners who entered the experimental buildings every marriage to live

one of the weapons used by S.S.

Guards. The body disposal plant

inside are they are ones which gave the crematorium

a maximum disposal capacity of about four hundred bodies per ten hour day gold

filled teeth were extracted from bodies before incineration the ovens of extremely

modern design and heated by Coke were made by

a concern which customarily manufactures backing out in the firm's name is clearly

inscribed

our bodies were finally reduced to Braun ash

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

there are two heads which have been shrunk to one fifth their normal sides these

and other exhibits of Nazi origin are shown to the townspeople

the camera records the changes in facial expressions as the Weimar citizens leave

the proximate display the tour 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 either

evidences of horror of brutality and human indecency are shown and these people are

compelled to see what their own government had perpetrated

the respondents assigned to the broken dot story have given wide notice to the well

fed well dressed appearance of

a German civilian population of the Weimar area. Dachau

back real. Nakamura mention one of the older the not the prison camp

it is known that the mine theme party won the nineteenth body for up to thirty

thousand people weren't room to go at one time. And very volatile were present when

the Allies reached. The Nazis said it was

a prison for political dissent or

a virtual criminal and religious and. When

these scenes were filmed over sixteen hundred priests representing many

denominations still remained alive they came from Germany Poland

Czechoslovakia France and Holland

incoming president James arrived carrying more dead than living. Strong enough to

travel abroad to Dachau or from outlying points which were threatened by the Allied

advance this is how they look when they arrive

from survive and when the rescuers arrived they administered one

a very good others died after the

liberation they were buried by

their fellow prisoners

as in the case of other camps townspeople were brought into view of the Dead at

Dachau this is what the liberators found inside the building.

Adding an orderly roles where the close of business who had been suffocated in

a lethal gas chamber had been persuaded to remove their clothing under the pretext

of taking

a shower for which towels and soap were provided there's

a browse by the shower bath inside the shower bath the

gas fan on the ceiling

done

a shower head in the engineers room

then take an outlet I watched the control and blown out tech of

gas I hand

a valve to regulate pressure cyanide

found it was used to generate

a little smoke from the gas chamber the bodies

were removed to the crematory

there is what the camera crew found inside.

These other survivors.

I am the officer commanding the regiment of raw lottery guarding this camp

I'm most frightened cause has been making the ass out of which there are about

fifty and that they're up to probably

a pellet about seventeen thousand feet and we expect to be barely about half

as much again when we carry in here our conditions were indescribable

that the poor had had no food processor days Iraqi to turn

their cook houses have now being organized and or less will they have to be guarded

so that everybody gets

a fair share of the food things on our going fairly well the

officers and men in the guard this job as

a duty that has to be performed I'm none of us are likely to forget the German

people have done here. I didn't hear him found his.

Fish preach to shave and. Doctorate concentration camp.

On the fourth of April nineteen forty five this is the doctor in charge of the

female section of the concentration camp back in Belgrade she was the president at

this county seat and that's Mum had him perfectly and I knew she must think.

I need to add the phone it only says that there were no covers drawn stacks or

bags of any kind of presence as

a liar directly on the ground. They were given one twelfth of

a lot of bread and some watery soup Grayling. Almost seventy five percent of the

people were bloated from hunger. Another Denecke of typhus broke out two hundred

and fifty women on thousands of men died daily. In the men's camp they come

out live or are in other parts of

a dad and I. Don't think funding to

believe the head of one hundred but. I think if it meant

a very tiny maybe comment. From this country yeah

that. Would try to get one stepping big issue tonight.

That no medicines were available because the antis manage collected every.

Two days before the British army came the first Red Cross was the. Still months

before one hundred fifty kilograms of chocolate have been sent to the children of

the camp. Just ready to. Arrest the commandant up warning the south and

use it of barter do with more the better. Understanding. We

can and. Thirty men take him out.

In the spring. Think you may think you may have been seen entering is

a good place to go that's nothing to me no. Mention you start.

At thirty years. You know and then you only know one thing here to give Kenya

Fallon. Because she didn't you know she added various medical experiments were made

on the. Doctors gave some of them intravenous injection of twenty cubic centimeters

of benzene which called the victims to die. She concluded by saying that's down as

Asians and other gynecological experiments were performed on nineteen year old

girls. And coming in from.

Kramer camp commandant was taken into custody.

Battle with the leader of the Allied advance but the guards were taken before they

had time to flee.

Inside. The same story of Asian and second.

Liberated prisoners could not control their emotions.

Despite German attempts to cover up we found these in the open field.

Later I got evidence of beatings and all right murder was on every.

Name with like them growing number or records which the German bestride.

As guard where I'm glad to clean up the camp area.

GERMAN WOMAN guards were ordered to bury the dead.

Sanitary conditions was so appalling that heavy equipment had to be brought in by

speed the work of the cleaning up.

The earth was going broke.