U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Allied Investigation Committee members tour Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany after its liberation near the end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. military officials enter the gates of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The officials walk on a path inside the camp. U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower with other officials inside the camp. Inmates demonstrate a torture device. General Eisenhower and officials look on. Dead victims of concentration camp. Bodies piled. Archbishop of Canterbury and other church dignitaries visit the camp and review the horror. The civilians of the Allied Investigation Commission inspect the camp. The officers walk in front of the camp. Bunk area with sign "5 men with operations in each box" is seen. Crematories, furnaces, and dead bodies piled up. A group of officials look on. The officials inside the dungeons with piles of dead bodies of human beings. The remains of burned bodies.
American soldiers in Schweinfurt, Germany at conclusion of World War II in Europe. An American soldier holding a gun beside the body of a German soldier hanging from a tree. The soldier takes the body down and lays it down on the ground. A soldier near the rubble of a ball bearing factory. A few GIs walk through the rubble of the factory. Two GIs inspecting boxes of ball bearings. One of the GIs running his hand through the ball bearings in the box. The Gis near a damaged rail car. One of the GIs prying through ball bearings on the ground beside a rail car.
American officials in Schweinfurt, Germany, near the end of World War II in Europe. U.S. Army soldiers questioning a group of young German boys in military uniform. The GIs and the young boy German soldiers standing in a field. Several soldiers in the background. Close up views of the faces of the Hitler youth or German boy soldiers, most of whom appear to be in their early teen years. An American soldier questioning the young men writes notes in a small book.
The meeting place of Soviet and American forces in Torgau Germany late in World War 2 in Europe. Russian banner stretched across village street. A banner in Russian and English. Russian soldiers and women of the Red army. American generals talk to Soviet generals. American GI with two Russian soldiers. American officer and two Russian soldiers. American officer shaking hand with Russian soldier. Russian Major as he greets displaced Russian girls.
Liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Liberated prisoners in courtyard wave, cheer, and celebrate behind barbed wire fence. Bodies of 5 or 6 dead German guards seen in foreground, on an embankment just outside the prison fence. Prisoners parade in camp carrying flags of various nations and pictures of leaders Stalin and Tito.
Recently liberated prisoners at the German concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Liberated prisoners carry corpses on a cart. Prisoners stand on side and look at the corpses of victims of Nazi atrocities. Another cart carries dead bodies. The prisoners load a dead body on the cart