USS Augusta during visit of President Harry S. Truman of United States, to Berlin, after World War II. Two SOC Seagull observation planes catapulted from Augusta. Planes take off from ship and glide over sea. Seaplanes make landing in sea waters, man from one SOC holds hoist strings suspended from ship Augusta. SOC seaplane surfing on sea water, and then raised by hoist cranes on ship. Sailors fix plane to its mount on the deck. Other ships leading Augusta on its way.
USS Augusta during visit of President Harry S. Truman of United States, to Berlin, after World War II. Sailors and crew members of the ship assembled during an event. Navy band musicians play. African American man dressed as woman dances with sailors. Sailors and officials enjoy. A boxing match on a ring built on the deck of the ship.
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering and high-ranking Nazi officials attend a military review during World War II. Wehrmacht flag on top of a government building. Wehrmacht troops addressed by Hitler. Guards stand with Nazi flag outside the Neue Wache (Unter den Linden 4 10117 Berlin). Homage to Austrian Nazis after invasion of Austria by Nazi forces. Wreath at the Neue Wache. Soldiers salute them. Civilians salute Hitler. Nazi German soldiers march in Berlin.
German U-boats in high tide cruise the North Sea. A sailor looks from its top. Workers work inside a U-boat. Huge cannons on deck of the ship. Convoy of German warplanes in sky above the U-boats.
During World War II, scene of a few women with terrible wounds at a German concentration camp near Ramsdorf after being liberated. Physicians attend to the atrocity victims. View of children who managed to survive at Auschwitz camp even after losing their families. The children show their tattoos on their hands that are marks for their identification. Two men who were survivors, one man whose eyes were gouged out by his captors. Men behind barbed wires. Inmate victims who could not walk or crawl being helped by soldiers. Nude men who were starved stand in a group at Ebensee Concentration Camp. Man helps a starved, emaciated man to walk. A man crawls. Bodies of prisoners who died without getting medical aid. Officials beside the bodies. Scenes are from a variety of camps including Ramsdorf, Auschwitz, Aschaffenburg, Bergen-Belsen, and some others that are not clear from the narration.
A mob, seeking revenge against Fascist leaders, fills a city square. They pound on steel gates of a government building. Soldiers and police attempt to protect various persons from the mobs. Others are unprotected and suffer beatings and death. Bodies of Benito Mussolini and his Mistress Clara Petacci are seen hung upside down by Italian Partisans in Milan, Italy, on 28 April 1945. Scene shifts to image of postwar occupying powers, United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain, whose flags are displayed in the center of a conference table during the Third Moscow Conference. Principals signing agreements, in November, 1943, providing, among other things, for lawful and orderly trials of war criminals, following World War 2. Seen signing are: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov; U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull; and British foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden. View of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, leading a contingent of American wartime Generals on a mission to document Nazi atrocities at liberated German concentration camps. Closeup of a man directing local German citizens who were forced to observe the horrors of the camp. Closeup of an oven used to dispose of bodies of victims. Dead bodies of concentration camp victims strewn in a heap. A room filled with documentary evidence to be analyzed and used in war crimes trials. the body of German General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg , and of Heinrich Himmler, both of whom committed suicide. A hand holding cyanide capsules. Body of Leipzig City Council deputy mayor Dr. Ernst Kurt Lisso slumped over his desk, following suicide. Body of his daughter, Regina Lisso also a suicide victim. Nazi war criminals being rounded up by Allied military.One being carried on a stretcher. Another, a German officer, is taken into custody. Next, Josef Kramer, the Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is seen under guard by a British soldier. British soldiers guarding the court room of the second Belsen trial, convened by the Allied occupational forces, in the Gymnasium building of Luneburg. View of the courtroom with defendants wearing numbers. Closeup of numbers 1 and 2, Josef Kramer, and Fritz Klein, respectively. View of Allied military officers sitting in judgment. Closeups of women defendants, including Irma Grese (number 9) and Elisabeth Volkenrath (number 11). Camera pans around the courtroom.
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