Burning barracks. Brief shot of British flag on flagpole. Crowd of survivors watching barracks on fire.

Consists of six photographs of the burning of a barracks in post-liberation Bergen-Belsen. The barracks were burned to help stop the spread of disease. Also contains a group portrait of the staff of an ambulance train which took survivors to hospitals in Sweden.

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Huts/barracks burned by "flame throwing" from military tank (to prevent the spread of typhus). Conflagration. Building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke. Soldiers. Panoramic shots of smoke and burning camp.

Huts/barracks burned by flamethrowers from military tank. Conflagration. Building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke. Soldiers. Fire blowing tractor lumbers along, shooting fire. LS of trucks driving around camp. Panoramic shots of smoke and burning camp.

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Rear shot of tank entering camp, passes barbed wire fence. Pans to sign on left of entrance. Sign reads, "This is the site of the Infamous Belsen Concentration Camp. Liberated by the British ca. 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe. And an example of Nazi Kultur." Same LS, pan to sign across deserted land, ...

Ministerie van Defensie te Londen; Ministerie van Oorlog te Londen en afwikkeling daarvan > Ministerie van Defensie te Londen, vanaf 21 augustus 1941 Ministerie van Oorlog te Londen, voortgezet vanaf 20 juni 1945 tot 25 april 1947 als bureau Londen departement van Oorlog, 1940-1949 > Kabinet > Voorlopig voorschrift betreffende de organisatie en werkwijze van den barrack-stores-dienst bij de Koninklijke ...

Soldiers open can of food for a woman. MSs of camp huts in flames ["accidental fire" handwritten into caption on one sheet, and on another "One of the huts caught fire - I was unable to ascertain whether this was done purposely by the inmates or whether it was accidental. It was not set alight by British troops for any reason."] CUs of flames. British soldiers and ex-prisoners watch the fires.

Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks ...

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In 1756, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria commissioned the construction of the barracks to accommodate Austrian soldiers. Between 1781 and 1940, the barracks played a pure military role, which was met in various ways. Until 1914, the building served as depot for the regiments of Grenadiers, Riflemen and Third Rifles Guards. Later it became a weapon depot and from 1918, an auxiliary depot of the 7th ...

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