Allied troops in Germany during World War II. 40 mm gun crew in Germany. A Nazi Swastika and an eagle mounted on a pillar with a gun in the foreground. A building damaged due to Allied bombings. Allied multiple 50 caliber gun and its crew. German prisoners loaded onto a truck as it pulls away. A destructed rail road trestle in Chantilly, France.
A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows camouflaged aerodromes which are covered with chicken wire and feathers in jungles of the Solomon Islands. A man opens a window of an Italian hot dog stand which was actually a German pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as a farmhouse. A U.S. Army soldier handles mats of a matted house. A soldier looks at windows painted on a pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as an entertainment outlet. A dummy building which hides a bridge. A German airfield disguised as a decoy village in Belgium. Buildings in the village. A jeep drives on a road in the village. Men move a sliding wall of a phony building. Helmets and shirts on branches to appear as dummy soldiers. A man near a dummy soldier. Vehicles roll past in France. An artillery piece hidden in thick vegetation. U.S. soldiers watching the film in a theater in the United States.
French Army General Beynet in Beirut, Lebanon of Levant States near end of World War 2. Delegate General and Plenipotentiary Army General of France in Levant States. He receives local press and war correspondents. He addresses the correspondents and gives an account of events. Correspondents stand around his desk. The correspondents ask him questions.
Scenes of Nazi atrocities at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany at the time of its liberation in World War 2. Bodies of victims heaped in railroad cars at railroad siding in Dachau, Germany. Faces and emaciated bodies of dead prisoners. Stack of naked bodies at crematorium. Huge pile of prison uniforms, hats, and other type of clothing removed from dead. Railroad car filled with bodies of victims. The United Nations flags over liberated camp. Flags of France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, England and United States.
The Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany. Liberated prisoners stand in a group. They hold flags of America, Great Britain, France, Russia and other allied flags. Freed prisoners with posters and banners in their hands. Freed prisoners with flags stand in a squad. Freed prisoners on stairs and roof stand and talk. (World War II period).
Liberated prisoners during a ceremony at Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany. Freed prisoners, dignitaries and civilians during the ceremony. Prisoners hold flags, banners and a sketch of a dignitary. Women hold flags of their own countries. Prisoner sits on the roof of a house. American officer on stage holds the American flag. Prisoners stand with flags of America, Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia and other allied flags. Civilians, dignitaries and prisoners stand at the back. Prisoners standing and sitting on the roof watch the ceremony. An American officer on a stage holds flag of America. (World War II period).