Delousing at Belsen; Red Cross; women at Mobile Bath Unit

CU, British soldier. Three young women with armbands walk through camp gate (guarded by British). Sign by gate "Dust Spreads Typhus 5 MPH." CU, two soldiers and two women: "One woman has travelled from Osnabruck to enquire after her husband who she believes has been interned in Belsen". MCU as captain uses DDT duster on companion outside "Dusting Room." In FG, two men sleeping by roadside. Ambulances pass. Rear shot of Sgt. Oakes of Army Film Unit talking to two Hungarian Jewish women, sitting by barbed wire and cooking lunch. Same survivors with soldier (now crouched down) with bowls of soup, intimate composition. Long row of women at communal taps, all scrubbing, cleaning clothes, filling buckets. Bucolic, springtime farming scene: cows, cottages, flowering trees, sunshine streaming through. House in Belsen village. MS of local hausfrau sitting with two children in garden, plays with her baby while young girl plays with a ball.