Allied officials receive a surrender from a German officer in Berlin, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. A Soviet officer reviews Red Army troops parading at an airport after the Soviet capture of Berlin. Exteriors of a headquarters in Berlin. Soviet Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, British Air Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. General Carl Spaatz receive surrender from German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
American airmen engaged in routine work at a base in Germany near the conclusion of World War 2, in Europe. Three airmen mechanics open tailgate door of a mobile shop. They pick out tools from the shop. They work on an improvised washing maching. GIs hang up laundry on a line. An improvised GI laundry. A crewman reads while sitting on a tub. Airman cleans out Commander's staff car. One of the crewman eating K-ration. Crewmen rig up the washing machine. Several airmen smile as they jointly pull on handle of a pipe wrench. Airmen washing a 6x6 Army truck. Water running out of the truck bed.
U.S. soldiers in Milan, Italy, near end of World War 2 in Europe. German women, Luftwaffe girls and Red Cross women are transported to other places in trucks. German prisoners of war (POW) driving their own convoy, unescorted, heading towards U.S. lines.
Opening scene shows American infantrymen riding M4A3 sherman tanks across a stream in Germany, a month before the end of World War 2, in Europe. They ford the stream and climb a hill on the other side, past damaged German dwellings. Closeup of tank entering the stream, stirring up mud.
Various views of Lieutenant colonel Creighton Abrams' 4th Armored Division M4A3E8 Sherman medium tank, "Thunderbolt VII," in Germany, near the end of World War 2, in Europe. Head-on view of the tank from roadbed, as it proceeds over the camera position. Several other views of the tank on dirt roads in Germany. An M5A1 light tank leads Abrams' tank in the last scene.
A film about the conditions at Nazi German concentration camps in Europe during World War II. Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. Camp area with buildings. A dead body on ground with mutilated face. Dead bodies near a live wire fence. Dead include Russians, Poles and Czechs. A Russian woman liberated from a slave camp look at the dead.