Concentration Camps - Prosecution Exhibit #230 : Ohrdruf

"Ohrdruf Concentration Camp" View of Ohrdruf, where 4000 were killed over a period of eight months. U.S. generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton, and Walton H. Walker inspect the camp. Men standing near gate, enter barracks, inspect the scaffold, talk to prisoners. A woodshed is filled with bodies stacked in piles. CUs of lime, covered bodies. CUs, generals viewing them. Inmates demonstrate torture (whipping rack). Eisenhower and others stroll past dead corpses on the ground. Also view the camp, walking near crematory. CUs, charred remains. A truck brings local townspeople, including Nazi party officials, who are forced to view the camp. Truck enters camp, people unload from back of truck. MS and CU German medical major in uniform accompanying civilians as they view the bodies of inmates who were shot on the eve of US arrival. MSs, German officer, eyes darting everywhere, impassible dead bodies scattered around, civilians in BG fidgeting, looking away. Two kapos escorted off by MP. Visitors are forced into the woodshed; they are obviously moved. Group listens to "list of atrocities," shots of ashes and logs; pan of impassive faces of civilian men; CU torso and skull (on stomach) of naked body.