The Death Camps
Product Description
Format: DVD
Run Time: 60 minutes
The Death Camps is actual footage as filmed by the Allied Forces as they advanced into Nazi Germany. While much has been written about Auschowitz, this documentary takes you through 12 different Nazi concentration camps throughout Germany and Europe, and details the atrocities that occurred at these extermination camps, many of which were more gruesome than Auschowitz.
Leipzig- This concentration camp at one time housed about 350 Russian, Czechoslovakian, Polish and French prisoners. Witness the aftermath of two hundred political prisoners being burned to death, as the others were gunned down by Nazi’s as they ran out of their prison huts as the Americans approached.
Penig- Witness the joy of Hungarians as they are liberated by the U.S. forces at this camp. Some prisoners were young 16 year old girls.
Ohrdruf- In this footage, General Dwight D. Eisenhower leads a high command inspection. See the carnage that lay behind after Germans burned, starved and beat to death over 4000 political prisoners over an 8 month period. The victims included Polish, Czechoslovakian, French, Russian, Belgian, German Jews, and German political prisoners.
Hadamar- Watch as American officers visit a German Institution that posed as an insane asylum that killed 35,000 Polish, Russians and Germans. Meanwhile at a graveyard associated with the institution, twenty thousand bodies are exhumed for autopsy.
Breendonck- This is an example of Nazi brutality to Belgians, while Germany occupied Belgium. Prisoners describe different methods the Nazi’s used to torture them.
Nordhausen- Three thousand Polish, Russian and French people died here. The footage shows emaciated people - piled on top of corpses – who are too weak to move.
Hannover- Out of the ten thousand Polish males that were delivered to Hannover only 10 months before, only 200 remained. Prisoners tell the Americans that they had been tortured and beaten so much that their minds had failed, and they couldn’t remember when they last had a decent meal.
Arnstadt- There were only 100 beds for the 1700 Polish and Russians trapped here. Watch as the German townspeople are forced to tour the camp and are shown a Nazi art collection of human heads and works made with human skin.
Mauthausen- A U.S. Navy soldier talks about his experience as a prisoner of war after the Gestapo captured him. He explains the methods of killing, which included beatings, exposure, shooting, starvation, dogs, and being pushed over a cliff.
Buchenwald- Eighty thousand people died at this extermination factory. Out of the 20,000 still alive, there are no woman survivors. The death rate was 200 people a day. Watch as the survivors describe the horrors they endured.
Dachau- Thirty thousand people were entombed there, and thirty thousand alive when the U.S. got to Dachau. See the prisoners clothes hanging outside what they were told were “showers.”
Belsen- The prisoners had not had food for 6 days when the U.S. got there. Two hundred and fifty woman, and thousands of men died daily at Belsen. Listen as “medical experiments” are detailed.
Run Time: 60 minutes
The Death Camps is actual footage as filmed by the Allied Forces as they advanced into Nazi Germany. While much has been written about Auschowitz, this documentary takes you through 12 different Nazi concentration camps throughout Germany and Europe, and details the atrocities that occurred at these extermination camps, many of which were more gruesome than Auschowitz.
Leipzig- This concentration camp at one time housed about 350 Russian, Czechoslovakian, Polish and French prisoners. Witness the aftermath of two hundred political prisoners being burned to death, as the others were gunned down by Nazi’s as they ran out of their prison huts as the Americans approached.
Penig- Witness the joy of Hungarians as they are liberated by the U.S. forces at this camp. Some prisoners were young 16 year old girls.
Ohrdruf- In this footage, General Dwight D. Eisenhower leads a high command inspection. See the carnage that lay behind after Germans burned, starved and beat to death over 4000 political prisoners over an 8 month period. The victims included Polish, Czechoslovakian, French, Russian, Belgian, German Jews, and German political prisoners.
Hadamar- Watch as American officers visit a German Institution that posed as an insane asylum that killed 35,000 Polish, Russians and Germans. Meanwhile at a graveyard associated with the institution, twenty thousand bodies are exhumed for autopsy.
Breendonck- This is an example of Nazi brutality to Belgians, while Germany occupied Belgium. Prisoners describe different methods the Nazi’s used to torture them.
Nordhausen- Three thousand Polish, Russian and French people died here. The footage shows emaciated people - piled on top of corpses – who are too weak to move.
Hannover- Out of the ten thousand Polish males that were delivered to Hannover only 10 months before, only 200 remained. Prisoners tell the Americans that they had been tortured and beaten so much that their minds had failed, and they couldn’t remember when they last had a decent meal.
Arnstadt- There were only 100 beds for the 1700 Polish and Russians trapped here. Watch as the German townspeople are forced to tour the camp and are shown a Nazi art collection of human heads and works made with human skin.
Mauthausen- A U.S. Navy soldier talks about his experience as a prisoner of war after the Gestapo captured him. He explains the methods of killing, which included beatings, exposure, shooting, starvation, dogs, and being pushed over a cliff.
Buchenwald- Eighty thousand people died at this extermination factory. Out of the 20,000 still alive, there are no woman survivors. The death rate was 200 people a day. Watch as the survivors describe the horrors they endured.
Dachau- Thirty thousand people were entombed there, and thirty thousand alive when the U.S. got to Dachau. See the prisoners clothes hanging outside what they were told were “showers.”
Belsen- The prisoners had not had food for 6 days when the U.S. got there. Two hundred and fifty woman, and thousands of men died daily at Belsen. Listen as “medical experiments” are detailed.
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