With his sweaty hands bound behind his back and his face covered with a blindfold, the man's body convulsed as bullets riddled his torso.
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He was one of several Germans killed by a US military firing squad just outside the town of Braunschweig, Germany in 1945 because he was deemed a spy.
However two of the spies lined up in the disused quarry were in fact simply members of the Hitler youth, aged just 16 and 17 years old. They were gunned down and then dragged into the coffins which were in the ground nearby.
The harrowing scene is just one of several images of death row in war time released by British Pathe.
The film archive states: 'While Pathe didn't shy away from screening very real and very harrowing footage of saying the Holocaust; films showing someone's life end by execution were not generally shown to the public.
However, on occasion these events were filmed but went straight to archive.
'Capital punishment has been carried out in almost all societies and although these films of execution may make for shocking viewing, they still provide a raw, unedited account of events from a certain time.'
Another scene shows British officers and soldiers escorting General Shampei of the Japanese Army to his execution after him.
Shampei was charged with crimes of murdering Australian prisoners of war.