Summary: Mute, unedited footage of the Vught concentration camp three miles south of 's-Hertogenbosch.
Description: View looking down on the camp amonst the trees shot from a vantage point on top of a crane that was used for wrecked aircraft. Scrap meatal from werecked aircraft. View of the mobile crematorium. Ashes from the crematorium including burnt bones. Shot of the glalows outside of the crematorium. Notice on electrified barbed wire fence. Shot of the look-out tower with searchlight.
The original Army Film and Photograph Unit Dope Sheet record notes "In the woods just outside Vught, 3 miles south of s'Hertogenbosch, lies one of the greatest concentration camps in Holland. The vast camp was built by the prisoners during the war. The camp contains all the buildings that housed the paraphernalia of death that goes with all such places but the Germans had time to destroy much of the evidence and they killed or removed all of the prisoners before the British Troops arrived. In spite of the fact that thousands of prisoners were killed here, there is not one grave, all the bodies were burned in the crematorium and the Germans even brought in portable crematoria to speed up this process. The corpse was first treated with incediary material to make it burn more rapidly then placed naked on a steel strettcher and pushed into the furnace, the remains were thrown out with the ashes. To the camp the enemy brought all aircraft which crashed in Southern Holland, and the prisoners had to dismantle the useable parts, the remainder being sent by rail back to Germany as scrap metal, one of the duties of the prisoner loading the trucks was to make sue tha the outer parts had Allied markings - if necessary they would paint them on."
