Witness the horrors of the Holocaust committed in Nazi concentration camps as Allied forces liberate survivors
U.S. soldiers, having defeated the German military, come face-to-face with the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. From “The Second World War: Allied Victory” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Badboo/Dreamstime.com; © 1957 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; TV Radio Mirror Magazine, March 1957Learn about cultural changes in East and West Germany during the 1950s.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © SPC5 Vincent Kitts/U.S. Army; Archives of the National VolksarmeeLearn about how East Germans risked their lives to escape to the West.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.On December 16, 1773, American patriots dumped 342 chests of black tea off British boats into Boston Harbor.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MarylandLearn about Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), November 9–10, 1938.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.In 1933 Adolf Hitler's National Socialists were voted into power, and the campaign of terror began. From The Second World War: Prelude to Conflict (1963).
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumDiscussion of the Nazi use of forced laborers from occupied territories to supply weapons and armaments.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Romannerud/Dreamstime.comOverview of Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
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Transcript
[Music in]
NARRATOR: But the Nazis had left a terrible legacy.
When they saw the German concentration camps, men toughened by combat were sickened by the sights and smells, and the cruelties that had been committed. Men and women, girls and boys, were starved, beaten, tortured--and finally burnt. And the living prayed for death.
[Music out]
NARRATOR: But the Nazis had left a terrible legacy.
When they saw the German concentration camps, men toughened by combat were sickened by the sights and smells, and the cruelties that had been committed. Men and women, girls and boys, were starved, beaten, tortured--and finally burnt. And the living prayed for death.
[Music out]
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