Witness the horrors of the Holocaust committed in Nazi concentration camps as Allied forces liberate survivors
Witness the horrors of the Holocaust committed in Nazi concentration camps as Allied forces liberate survivors
U.S. soldiers, having defeated the German military, come face-to-face with the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. From “The Second World War: Allied Victory” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Transcript
[Music in]
NARRATOR: But the Nazis had left a terrible legacy.
When they saw the German concentration camps, men toughened by combat were sickened by the sights and smells, and the cruelties that had been committed. Men and women, girls and boys, were starved, beaten, tortured--and finally burnt. And the living prayed for death.
[Music out]
NARRATOR: But the Nazis had left a terrible legacy.
When they saw the German concentration camps, men toughened by combat were sickened by the sights and smells, and the cruelties that had been committed. Men and women, girls and boys, were starved, beaten, tortured--and finally burnt. And the living prayed for death.
[Music out]