Ruins in a German city near end of World War II. U.S. Army soldier walking on a street with his rifle, passing by two dead German soldiers. Bombed buildings, destruction, and rubble everywhere. Soldier walking slowly through the destruction.. A map highlights Berlin. A drawing depicts Allied troops victory at end of World War 2 in Europe.
Several weeks before the end of World War II in Europe, recently captured German prisoners of war, still wearing their uniforms, work under guard, building their own barbed wire enclosure. Some carry and place large timber fence posts. Others dig post holes and string barbed wire. Others fashion fence posts, using saws and hatchets (to sharpen their ends). Several American soldiers supervise and stand guard.
Scenes at the recently liberated Nazi German Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany, near the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of the Dachau Concentration Camp showing barracks, grounds, perimeter fencing, and various buildings. The main entrance gate of the camp. Views of some of the surviving liberated inmates from Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Holland. Many of the survivors are starved and emaciated. View of a railroad train car that had arrived at the camp, carrying prisoner victims, with more of them dead than alive in the packed train car. Corpses lie inside an open door of a prison train box car. Bodies of victims under a blanket of snow in an open top train car. Some surviving liberated prisoners move piled bodies of dead victims from carts to prepare them for burial.
Dead bodies of prisoners at the Nazi Dachau Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany immediately after the conclusion of World War II in Europe. Local town people view the piles of emaciated dead bodies stacked inside a building. Women cry and walk out of the building after viewing heaps of dead bodies of atrocity victims. A tour of a gas chamber shows an Allied soldier entering a shower bath area. Dummy shower heads, intake and outlet pipes, inflow and outtake gas valves in the gas chamber. Bodies in a crematory after removal from the gas chamber. Survivors of the Dachau camp.
U.S. troops prepare to embark for the United States from France at the conclusion of their service in Europe during World War II, but before the end of the war, so it is regarded as a 30 day furlough. Soldiers stand in line and receive awards and recognitions for their service. The troops go through a chow line and eat food. Soldiers march and smiling U.S. Army soldiers board waiting trucks. The soldiers carry barracks bags as they board troop transport ships, embarking on the voyage back to America. Narrator notes that they will still be needed to help in the fight against the Japanese.
Youth cadets from the Royal Hungarian High School march into a U.S. 11th Armored Division Prisoner of War enclosure at Freyung, Germany, during final days of World War 2, in Europe. Several takes of the young boy students, with packs and in soldier uniforms, marching through a gateway into the enclosure, as U.S. soldiers watch them. U.S. Army translator talks in German with the boy soldier leading the group.