'Liberation of Auschwitz' full documentary (content warning: distressing scenes)

Auschwith-Birkenau was probably the most infamous concentration camp of the Holocaust. It was liberated by Soviet troops in 1944 and a large proportion of the footage included was filmed by the Soviet cameraman Alexander Voronsin, who also contribute with an interview. The Programme is introduced by Simon Wiesental and is an account of some of the Second World War's worst atrocities, and the reasons behind them. 10:00:00:00 Opening - title crediting Soviet cameramen etc 10:00:25:00 Introduction by Simon Wiesental 10:01:56:00 Map over concentration camps in Europe 10:02:21:00 Film canister containing the footage from Auschwitz - stills of Alexander Voronsov, photographer 10:02:58:00 Opening title: The Liberation of Auschwitz 10:03:03:00 Interview with Voronsov, incl. stills - T-34s towards camera - Soviet artillery firing - T-34 firing 10:03:43:00 Scenes from Krakow as Red Army enter the city - T-34 plus artillery - infantry in burning city 10:04:19:00 Red Army vehicles on country road - industrial plants near Auschwitz 10:04:37:00 Continued interview with Alexander Voronsov 10:05:10:00 Aerial view of Auschwitz-Birkenau - aerial photographs showing the layout of camp 10:06:47:00 Aerial view of the industries around Auschwitz incl. IG Farben - general view of the industries 10:07:59:00 The electrified perimeter fence at Auschwitz - view over camp - still of German officer 10:08:27:00 Voronsow interview continues 10:08:48:00 Prisoners in Auschwitz - prisoner who had been shot - liberated forced labourers outside camp 10:09:32:00 Forced labourers start march away from Auschwitz. They are in better condition than prisoners 10:10:12:00 A Soviet Special Commission arrive to inspect the camp - construction plan of the camp 10:11:28:00 Soviet soldier looks in on store of Cyanide B and gasmasks - part of electric installation 10:11:59:00 Interview with Alexander Voronsov continues 10:12:12:00 The Soviet Commission in camp - Voronsov - women prisoners in barrack with bunks 10:13:54:00 Bodies outside barracks - then a couple of survivors (woman and child) - further bodies 10:14:27:00 Prisoners carry stretcher with body to be taken to grave - sermon next to grave - into grave 10:15:30:00 Soviet soldiers comes out of barrack with a couple of prisoners who are told of family appeals 10:16:56:00 Soviet soldiers with two Yugoslav prisoners 10:17:05:00 Interview with Alexander Voronsov continues 10:17:34:00 42 years old prisoner who looks much older 10:17:54:00 Prisoners begin to leave Birkenau for Auschwith where they would receive medical help 10:18:43:00 Horse-drawn carts transport prisoners - carts leave the camp 10:19:34:00 Liberated prisoners covering themselves with blankets - doctor with woman in camp street 10:19:50:00 Prisoners - carts with prisoners leave camp - very large group of prisoners move towards camera 10:21:07:00 Liberated prisoners move through camp 10:21:11:00 Interview with Alexander Voronsov continues 10:21:35:00 Piles of suitcases brought by prisoners 10:22:16:00 Sign of burnt down barracks - storeroom full of discarded clothes - soldiers inspecting clothes 10:24:14:00 Piles of shoes - glasses - dentures and gold teeth - brushes and other items - prayer shawls 10:26:03:00 Goods looted from deportation trains - Polish mayor shown bags of human hair - stills bald people 10:28:02:00 Human hair - burnt bodies - severed head in previous fire - stills of SS leaders who served in the camp 10:29:15:00 Prisoners family albums - stills from a SS man's album of prisoners and life in the camp 10:32:15:00 Polish nurse shows Soviet reporters a mass grave filled with bodies, incl. babies 10:33:27:00 Autopsies are performed in open air in Auschwitz - bodies of babies shown (gruesome) 10:34:24:00 Interview with Alexander Voronsov continues - still of Voronsov during the war 10:34:53:00 Local workers clear the debris from crematory 5, destroyed by the SS - still of oven 10:35:57:00 Pan across Birkenau - electric fence with warning sign (Stoj/Halt) - today red, tomorrow dead sign 10:36:47:00 The Soviet Commission record the testimony of prisoners used later in the Nuremberg trial 10:36:57:00 The Commission in the grounds during inspection - prisoners with academic degrees and background 10:38:11:00 The academics show the Commission the punishment block with an often-used gallows 10:39:25:00 Interview with Alexander Voronsov continues 10:40:11:00 Children in the camp show the numbers tattooed on their arms 10:41:10:00 Crying baby attended to by Soviet doctor, who shows other scientists the symptoms etc 10:41:58:00 Child with signs of medical experiments - prisoner arrives and faces the scientists 10:42:44:00 Prisoners examined by the Soviet scientists, one is infected by leprosy - young boy examined 10:43:54:00 Young man is being examined - 13 years old boy with imposed frost bites examined 10:44:58:00 Young girl punished for not working hard enough is seen by the scientists 10:45:22:00 Prisoner brought in to the scientists on a stretcher - 17 years old boy suffering after shot to head 10:47:02:00 Three young men who have all been castrated - doctor prepare records 10:48:32:00 Military marching band lead local people and clergy in a funeral procession - 470 are buried 10:49:40:00 Local civilians express their sorrow during funeral 10:49:57:00 The large grave is being filled in - orphaned children leave Auschwitz 10:51:07:00 Scenes of the perimeter fence - prisoners behind meshed gate liberated (scene from proposed film) 10:52:31:00 The sign above main gate 'Arbeit Macht Frei' - prisoners behind fence 10:53:27:00 Title : The Beginning.... 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