Berga: Hitler's GI Death Camp

Berga: Full Documentary

BERGA: HITLER'S GI DEATH CAMP

National Emmy Award nominee for Best Historical Long Form Documentary
Writer / Director: Steve Hoggard
Director of Photography: Ryan Hill, Gary Grieg
Executive Producers: David Hill, Daphna Rubin, Steve Hoggard
Senior Producer: Char Serwa
Edited By: Lyman Smith
Narrated By: Liev Schreiber

Story Segment: GI’s begin their long journey into captivity.

When Americans think of GI’s and the Holocaust, they envision young soldiers liberating death camps. They don’t think of American GI’s themselves being victims in the Nazi’s Final Solution. But in a place called Berga, American POW’s became just that, working and dying as slave laborers in one of Hitler’s most secretive concentration camps.

This is their story.

PROJECT SLIDESHOW

The tunnel entrances can still be found at Berga today. They were once linked to Hitler's wonder weapons.

Over 23,000 GI's were captured in the Battle of the Bulge. A select few, mainly Jewish GI's, were separated out and sent to work and die in Berga Concentration Camp.

Both civilian Holocaust prisoners and American GI's set out on the Death March from Berga. Most perished.

When liberated, many of Berga's surviving GI's had lost half their body weight. They suffered the highest mortality rate of all Allied POWs in the entire Second World War.