Compiled by the U.S. War Department in 1945 from footage shot as Allied armies advanced into Germany, Belgium, and Austria, this film was assembled as evidence for the Nuremberg war crimes trials, with Army Lt. Col. George Stevens, Navy Lt. E. Ray Kellogg, and chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson reading sworn affidavits to certify each scene's authenticity. A map tracks camp locations across a dozen countries before the footage moves camp by camp: bodies piled at Leipzig, survivors from Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and France at Penig, and Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton touring Ohrdruf's crematorium grill. At Buchenwald the camera lingers on lampshades made from human skin and shrunken heads displayed for townspeople from Weimar, forced to walk through at gunpoint. At Bergen-Belsen, captured SS guards bury the dead they killed while a bulldozer pushes bodies into mass graves. U.S. Red Cross workers treat survivors, sometimes in hospitals staffed by their former captors. The footage is unedited for comfort, shot as legal evidence rather than narrative, and it shows exactly what the liberating armies found.