1945 Horror in Our Time

Date: 30th April 1945

Location: Germany

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

AEROPLANE GERMAN German fighters bombed and straffed BELSEN. Shows what damage they did.

CONCENTRATION CAMP. German fighters bomb and straffe Belsen, some damage. More shots of BELSEN & inmates.

CONCENTRATION CAMP. Belsen. General view of camp. Prisoners eating food given out by British troops. JOSEPH KRAMER Commandant of the camp. c.u. The women S.S. Guards of Belsen.

Lord ADDISON Visits Buchenwald w. other M.P.s

CONCENTRATION CAMP. BUCHENWALD. Visited by:- Sir Henry Morris Jones, Mrs Mavis Tate, Sir Graham White, Lord Stanhope, Lord Addison, Sir Archibald, Southby, Lt. Col. Wickham, Ness Edward, E. Silverman, & Tom Driberg. Looking at dead, and also the incineraters w. burnt body in one. Gallows beating table, Mallet (for beating).

CONCENTRATION CAMP. At BUCHENWALD Russians hold funeral for one of their dead. In JENA some freed Russian prisoners break window and attack one of their former guards.

CONCENTRATION CAMP. Stalag TEKLA near Leipsig, Russians, Poles, French, Czechs, burnt to death or shot while trying to escape from the flames. A few escaped. Shot of man burnt up on electrified barbed wire.

DEATH. Citizens of Gardelegan (400) digging up the bodies of 1100 murdered people; dragging the bodies out of the mass graves. Being made to work, by soldiers with fixed bayonets.

Tom DRIBERG. MP (LABOUR) Visits BUCHENWALD w. other M.P.s.

Ness EDWARDS. Visits BUCHENWALD with other M.P.s.

Sir Henry Morris - JONES Visits Buchenwald. w. other M.P.s

E. SILVERMAN. Visits BUCHENWALD with other M.P.S.

E. SILVERMAN. 1181 30 Apr 1945 Horror in our time 938 ft

E. SILVERMAN. 1182 3 May 1945 Horror in our time 646 ft.

Sir Achibald SOUTHBY. Visits Buchenwald w. other M.P.s.

STANHOPE, Earl of Visits Buchenwald w.Lother M.P.s.

STANHOPE, Earl of Visits Buchenwald w.Lother M.P.s.

TATE, Mrs Visis Buchenwald w. other M.P.s.

Sir Graham WHITE. Visits Buchenwald w. other M.P.S.

Col. WICKHAM. Visits BUCHENWALDE with other M. P.s

FLAGS. British American, & Russian flags when Yanks & Russian link up at TORGAU, on the Elbe.

GERMANY. Russians & Yanks link up at TORGAU on the Elbe.

RUSSIA. Russians & Yanks make radio contact. Later meet at TORGAU on the Alba. Hand shakes across destroyed bridge. Crossing river in small boats. two parties intermingle, healths being drunk. Russian, Yank & British flags.

Military - Active; United States of America; Soviet Union

Concentration Camps; Germany; Prisoners of War; Buchenwald; Belsen

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