Belsen: Destruction Of Camp (1945)

Unused / Unissued material. Destruction of Belsen concentration camp - Germany. Various shots as troops carry bodies and ill out of hut on stretchers and put them into vans. Various shots of people in hospital in beds. L/S of survivors in canteen set up by British army. M/S women survivors waving from truck. Bodies are taken off truck by German prisoners and taken to mass grave where they are laid next to each other. M/S doctor tending injured boy. More bodies carried out in blankets. Various shots of clergyman saying prayers over bodies in grave. M/S prisoners filling in grave. Various shots of survivors on truck. Various shots of funeral service and volley of shots fired over grave. L/S trucks leaving Belsen gates. Various shots of girls being fumigated. M/S group of girls and women chatting with allied soldier and laughing. C/U’s women survivors laughing. Various shots as the empty huts are burned down. M/S’s as survivors carry possessions onto trucks. L/S filled in grave, C/U sign in top