Excerpt of a film documenting Nazi German atrocities at Auschwitz. This clip shows children who had been liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. They are wearing prisoner uniforms and walking through part of the camp. This footage was taken in early 1945 by a Soviet film crew shortly after Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz. The film clip includes a voiceover narration in English.
Some of the children who appear in this film footage were twins who had been subjected to medical experiments by Dr. Josef Mengele.
Among the 2,819 liberated Auschwitz inmates, there were 180 children; 52 of them were under 8 years of age. How could they survive this hell? They managed to survive because they were wanted for medical research instead of mice and rabbits. But the German murderers with medical degrees were only keen on a particular kind of children: they wanted to experiment on twins. Twins were a special research material of Doctor Mengele and Doctor Schmidt's. Children who did not belong to that category were simply murdered. The infants were known by the numbers on their little hands.
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