Saunders' squad happens upon a Nazi concentration camp occupied only by a few starving Poles. SS overseers killed most of the prisoners and then fled with the strongest inmates, but in their hurry to flee left behind these men, mostly from the same village. The squad has orders to move on, but few of the liberated are able to walk with them. The men's leader, their former mayor, begs Saunders to stay and help, while their former KAPO, also a Pole, wants out with the squad, before the furious prisoners kill him.