



A German train with concentration camp prisoners passes by.
Panorama of the Buchenwald concentration camp (top).
Corpses of victims of Nazi terror laid out on the site.
View of an excavated ditch with bodies of executed people.
An American officer shows a burial site to General Eisenhower.
American soldiers examine the corpses of concentration camp prisoners lying on the ground.
Surviving emaciated prisoners of the concentration camp, faces of prisoners.
The face of a liberated prisoner lying on a stretcher.
An officer demonstrates to Eisenhower methods of torturing prisoners.
American military doctors provide assistance to one of the liberated Buchenwald prisoners.
Demonstration of the degree of emaciation of one of the liberated prisoners.
Corpses of prisoners on the camp grounds.
American soldiers and members of the commission to investigate the crimes of German fascism walk through the Buchenwald grounds.
American soldiers and members of the commission walk past liberated prisoners.
Faces of liberated prisoners.
One of the commission members interrogates people liberated from the camp.
Americans examine a torture device.
Demonstration of one of the instruments for beating prisoners.
Inspection of the crematorium ovens.
Commission members examine the bones of exterminated prisoners.
Prostheses of exterminated prisoners.
Faces of commission members.
Corpses of prisoners shot by the Nazis with numbers on their stomachs.
Demonstration of products made from the skin of murdered prisoners.
Wigs made from the hair of the murdered, placed on dummies.
Interrogation of warden Ilse Koch.
The face of Ilse Koch answering the investigator's questions.
Views of the territory of liberated Buchenwald, former prisoners on the territory.
View of part of the pit, half-filled with corpses of prisoners.
Panorama of part of the camp parade ground.
Liberated prisoners on the territory of the camp.
Captured warders and guards of the camp stand under escort.
Arrested guards leave the barracks.
Captured SS guards from the camp guard march in formation.
Faces of arrested guards and representatives of the camp administration.
War criminals with chest numbers on the dock in June 1945. Former guards in the dock.
The face of one of the defendants.
Map of Germany with the locations of concentration camps marked.
Himmler visiting one of the concentration camps.
Photograph of Himmler.
Doctors examine crippled children liberated from a German concentration camp.
Doctors examine an adult prisoner.
American guards in the prison corridor.
One of the defendants sleeps on a cot in a cell.
Victims of Nazi terror.
Corpses of prisoners prepared for burning in a woodpile (panorama).
Exhumation of the remains of the bodies of victims of the German occupiers in one of the liberated regions of the USSR. Local residents who came to identify the bodies of relatives and friends shot by the German occupiers.
Panorama of a section of the ditch with the bodies of executed people.
People stand by an excavated mass grave.
View of the ditch with steles of executed people (from above).
Identification of the bodies of executed people.
Road sign at the entrance to Oradour.
Panorama of Oradour burned by the German occupiers.
Destroyed houses and deserted streets of Oradour.
Internal inspection of the local church, destruction inside the church, bullet holes on the walls.
Soviet military doctors exhume the remains of the bodies of victims of the Nazi terror.
Panorama of the ashes of burned bodies, the ground is strewn with human bones.
Local residents gather for the procedure of identifying the bodies.
The bodies of peaceful Soviet citizens shot by the German occupiers.
Women cry over the bodies of their dead relatives.
The bodies of civilians shot by the German invaders (panorama).
Doenitz K. in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials.
People stand by the frozen corpses of their executed relatives (panorama, from above).
A man cries over the bodies of his family members.
Mass executions
Himmler Heinrich -- German statesman and politician Doenitz Karl -- German naval officer
statesman and political figure Koch Ilsa -- German war criminal Eisenhower Dwight David -- American statesman and political figure
military leader
1941 1943-1945
Germany USSR
Winter Spring




Corpses of children shot by the Nazis.
People at a mass grave of victims of the German occupiers (panorama, from above).
A sobbing woman.
Corpses of civilians after exhumation.
Local residents search for their loved ones among the corpses.
Corpses of children killed by the Nazis.
Relatives near the corpses of their loved ones they have identified, and weeping women.
Corpses of civilians tied together with pieces of wire.
People sob over the frozen corpses of their dead relatives, the bodies of the murdered children.
Red Army soldiers extract the frozen bodies of civilians killed by the Nazis from a dugout.
Bodies of victims of the Nazi terror.
The face of a crying teenager.
German soldiers in a populated area they have occupied.
German soldiers lead people caught in a raid down the street.
People being loaded onto a train, being driven to Germany.
A convoy of refugees on the road.
Warsaw Jews being escorted to the ghetto.
View of part of the ghetto territory.
1941
USSR Poland Warsaw
Winter Summer




Walls of city buildings collapse in Warsaw in 1944. Panorama of a burnt park and city square.
A German officer with a whip mocks an elderly woman.
An elderly man with children walks to a train car to be sent to a concentration camp.
Faces of children from the Warsaw ghetto.
Roundup of Jews in Warsaw, people are driven into the ghetto in October 1940. Wall of an apartment building with broken windows in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw.
Undressed corpses lie on the sidewalk of the ghetto.
Loading corpses of people who died of starvation onto a handcart.
Transportation of corpses.
Storing corpses in sheds.
Photographs of hangings and shootings of civilians by German soldiers and punitive forces.
View of a Nazi Party rally in Germany (above).
The entry of German troops into the Sudetenland in 1938. Hitler listens to the explanations of an SS officer during a military parade.
Headlines of the Völkischer Beobachter newspaper with reports on the solution of the Sudeten question.
Hitler's stay in Prague.
Panorama of an industrial plant.
An artillery piece at a parade.
The entry of German troops into Poland in 1939. View of a square during a military parade.
Hitler inspects the troops while standing in a car.
A flag with a swastika is waving.
Views and panorama of a Nazi rally in Germany.
View of the rally tribune.
A burning bonfire of books, stormtroopers march past the bonfire, throwing books into the bonfire.
Reich President Hindenburg after being elected for a second term in 1932. The entry of German troops into the Rhineland in March 1936. Residents of one of the cities greet the troops passing through the streets, a military brass band rides by on horseback.
Artillery moves across a bridge.
Sentries at the monument to King Friedrich Wilhelm.
Hitler leaves the building, gets into a car, members of the Nazi Party greet him.
People on the square in front of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940 (panorama).
Views and panorama of part of the Warsaw Ghetto territory.
Bicycle taxi on the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Ghetto inhabitants on the streets.
Views of one of the streets of the ghetto, a tram with a six-pointed star passes by, movement of bicycles and horse-drawn transport.
Hitler Adolf - German statesman and political figure Hindenburg Paul von - German statesman and political figure
military leader
1932 1936 1938 1939 1940
Poland Czech Republic Warsaw Berlin Germany Prague
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