“COMBAT BULLETIN 36” 1945 ARMY PICTORIAL FILM CONCENTRATION CAMPS & GERMAN ATROCITIES XD52274

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This combat bulletin features disturbing footage not suitable for all viewers. This original film provides updates from warfronts during WWII. Historical moments featured include the British liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as well as the execution of the Italian dictator, Mussolini in Milan. It is an Atrocity film (:09) of the Army Pictorial Service. The film opens with images from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (:17) in northern Germany as bodies of the recently charred are pushed out from an over loaded cart (:21) by SS Guards. British troops found about 60,000 dead and nearly dead here as the camp’s liberation began in 1945 (:27). SS troops carry emaciated bodies to a shallow grave as witnesses yell (:35). A female SS officer moves past the camera (1:02) guided by gunpoint. A British Commandant delivers a speech over the radio (1:14). Members of the British occupation group deliver first hand testimony (2:02). The Reverend Thomas James Stretch appears as he was one of the first to enter the concentration camp in 1945 (2:08). He speaks in front of a mass grave on the burial of 5,000 bodies that morning (2:29). Two other pits such as the one behind him were also to be buried (2:37). Many perished from sheer starvation. A British troop presiding over the camp speaks (2:58) to the atrocities uncovered at the camp. A polish woman and former inmate had been the chief doctor at the camp (3:31). She details how men turned to cutting the organs from the dead in order to eat rather than suffer from starvation (3:44). The SS also withheld medical and food supplies (4:03). Inmates were used as guinea pigs for medical experiments (4:06). The youngest and most attractive of female inmates were sterilized (4:14). The dead lay in rows in the Bohemia forest near the Czech frontier (4:21). These were liquidated following the evacuation from the Buchenwald concentration camp (4:26). A polish boy wipes tears as he recognizes the body of his father (4:31). Civilians from nearby Nuremberg enter the woods with 161 coffins for the burial of the deceased (4:36). It is a Sunday morning, the 29th of April as they move the bodies from the hillside to the town (4:47). The group moves somberly through the city streets of Nuremburg (5:07) with exposed bodies in the coffins. They enter the cemetery as religious services begin (5:20). A crowd of American soldiers (5:37) gather after their release from a German POW camp. Two of the men tell their stories (5:47). The first man; from Chicago, was captured during the Battle of the Bulge (5:54). He was subjected to forced labor (6:23) and meager food rations. Guards beat down those unable to work with rifle butts (6:58). The second POW; Charles, from Akron Ohio (7:24) was also captured during the Battle of the Bulge. He and other POW’s were forced to walk 40 miles and were then crammed into small box cars (7:44) without food. The soldiers were forced to remain on the cars for eight days and nights (8:09). After two months at the camp, Charles lost 55 pounds (8:32). The segment turns to the Mediterranean and the death of Mussolini (8:40) on April 28th, 1945. The setting is Milan, Italy as Italians crowd the streets (8:57). Mussolini’s body had been dumped in the Piazzale Loreto (9:03) along with his mistress Clara Petacci and other members of Mussolini’s cabinet. The corpses were kicked and pummeled by Italian civilians (9:17). Guards attempt to keep the violent mob at bay (9:32). Water hoses are aimed into the crowd (9:51). The bodies were then strung up by their ankles at a gasoline filling station for the mob to get a better view (10:23). The gnarled and barely recognizable face of Mussolini (10:45) and his mistress close the film. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit