Uitg. in samenw. met uitgeverij Rode Emma. 146 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Adriaan Antoon Jacob Johan Thomson (1906-1980) was a Dutch non-Jewish army officer arrested for espionage and resistance activities. From May 1942 until April 1945, he was transported to and imprisoned in various prison camps in Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands. By the end of April 1945, he returned to Eindhoven and reunited with his sister.

"Nazi Atrocities" segment of US Army "Special Film Report" (part of reels 3 and 4). Evidence of atrocities in several captured German concentration camps, including Holzen, Paderborn, Hadamar, and Ohrdruf. LS, camp entrance in Holzen, Germany. MS, CUs, Russian, Polish, Czech and Jewish prisoners behind barbed-wire fence, smiling. Undernourished prisoners. MS, EXT men standing along barracks. VCUs, ...

Hendrikus Gerardus (Henk) Achterberg werd op 7 april 1945 in het Aussenlager Kamp Hecht in de buurt van het Duitse plaatsje Holzen bevrijd door een Amerikaanse eenheid. Hij had in 1943 de doodstraf opgelegd gekregen omdat hij een bemanningslid van een neergeschoten Engelse bommenwerper had geholpen te ontsnappen. De doodstraf werd omgezet in een levenslange tuchthuisstraf. Henk Achterberg schreef in ...

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower ...

Lt. Preston Amble Reed (1913-1977) was a professional photographer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He worked for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune when he was drafted in December 1942. He served in the 168th Signal Photo Company, Second Signal Battalion, Ninth Army, and served in Europe in 1945. In the summer of 1945, he was shipped to Manila in the Phillippines, where he finished his military service. Upon ...

Orientation Film no. 19. War Department Information Film showing German concentration camps and victims of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald, and other camps. Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi camps: the survivors, the conditions, and ...

Orientation Film no. 19. War Department Information Film showing German concentration camps and victims of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald, and other camps. Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi camps: the survivors, the conditions, and ...