During Nuremberg trial Hans Frank describes the Nazi policies of exterminating Poles and others. Atrocities inflicted on prisoners in Ourador Sur Glane, France in Bande, Belgium in Catacombe, Italy and in Czechoslovakia. Nazi German soldiers engaged in destruction following massacre of many residents in town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in 1942 (retaliating for the assassination of SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.) Dead bodies in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, in 1945. Bones visible in crematory ovens. Victims inside crowded barracks including women prisoners who have been liberated. Large piles of items taken from victims before their deaths, including luggage, hair locks, toothbrushes, shaving cream brushes, shoes, clothing. Bones of victims piled at a concentration camp. Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (sometimes spelled Höß or Hoess or Hess) describes concentration camps at Auschwitz in Poland during testimony. Victims in hospitals are shown, as words of Hess describe medical experiments include lowering the body temperature, injecting the body with poisons and infectious diseases and subjecting victims to high altitude pressure chambers. View of mutilated corpses. Sign that reads, "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the Auschwitz concentration camp gated entrance. Corpses of victims in the concentration camps.
Buildings of French Government in Baden-Baden, Germany. The building of the military government of Sarre. Vehicles and people move on a road in front of the building. A sign:'Gouvernement Militaire de la Sarre'. People at the entrance of the building. Views of the road in front of the building. General Emile Liffon, who is in charge of the civilian administration of the French Zone, in his office. He talks over a phone and works. The flag of France on a building. Sign " Gouvernement Militaire Rhenanie Hesse Nassau" on the building.
French children from Marseilles, France are quartered at a hotel in Baden-Baden, Germany. Exterior of the hotel where the children from Marseilles are quartered. The children leave the hotel. A sign on the hotel reads as 'Colonie des enfants de Marseille'. Children play on lawns. The hotel in the background. An outdoor class: the children at desks. A teacher teaches them. The children learn. The children walk on a road past road markers and signs.
Dramatization about German artillery firing propaganda leaflets in the European Theater during World War II. German artillery fires propaganda leaflets towards U.S. soldiers. Two soldiers look at leaflets being fired at them, one of them is an African American soldier. Writing on the leaflet reads, 'What will you get out of this war? Surrender ! Come over to us. Colored soldiers will be well treated in a German camp.' U.S. soldiers continue their attack. German officers surrender at Allied headquarters in France towards the end of World War II.
A damaged French town in 1944 during World War II. Aerial view of bombs falling over the French town. Smoke billows up from explosions. Rubble on the streets and damaged buildings. French civilians clear debris. Frenchmen ride bicycles. Civilians near a pond. A damaged railroad station.
A damaged French town in 1944 during World War II. French civilians stand near a bombed out building. Rubble on a street. Trucks loaded with men drives past the bombed out building.