A mob, seeking revenge against Fascist leaders, fills a city square. They pound on steel gates of a government building. Soldiers and police attempt to protect various persons from the mobs. Others are unprotected and suffer beatings and death. Bodies of Benito Mussolini and his Mistress Clara Petacci are seen hung upside down by Italian Partisans in Milan, Italy, on 28 April 1945. Scene shifts to image of postwar occupying powers, United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain, whose flags are displayed in the center of a conference table during the Third Moscow Conference. Principals signing agreements, in November, 1943, providing, among other things, for lawful and orderly trials of war criminals, following World War 2. Seen signing are: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov; U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull; and British foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden. View of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, leading a contingent of American wartime Generals on a mission to document Nazi atrocities at liberated German concentration camps. Closeup of a man directing local German citizens who were forced to observe the horrors of the camp. Closeup of an oven used to dispose of bodies of victims. Dead bodies of concentration camp victims strewn in a heap. A room filled with documentary evidence to be analyzed and used in war crimes trials. the body of German General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg , and of Heinrich Himmler, both of whom committed suicide. A hand holding cyanide capsules. Body of Leipzig City Council deputy mayor Dr. Ernst Kurt Lisso slumped over his desk, following suicide. Body of his daughter, Regina Lisso also a suicide victim. Nazi war criminals being rounded up by Allied military.One being carried on a stretcher. Another, a German officer, is taken into custody. Next, Josef Kramer, the Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is seen under guard by a British soldier. British soldiers guarding the court room of the second Belsen trial, convened by the Allied occupational forces, in the Gymnasium building of Luneburg. View of the courtroom with defendants wearing numbers. Closeup of numbers 1 and 2, Josef Kramer, and Fritz Klein, respectively. View of Allied military officers sitting in judgment. Closeups of women defendants, including Irma Grese (number 9) and Elisabeth Volkenrath (number 11). Camera pans around the courtroom.
A film titled 'Lt. Roberts 61 Squadron 56 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking ME-110 and JU-88 on 11 December 1943'. German Air Force bomber aircraft ME-110 and JU-88 seen in flight during World War II.
Opening slate mentions speed and pressures generated in the test launch of A4 V2 rocket. The rocket launches and appears to be successful, moving up and out of sight. However, some white smoke descends and lingers in the atmosphere afterwards. The next slate states that the causes of the malfunctions have been identified and corrected. It is followed by a slate showing date of 3 October, 1942, and another about last instructions before the 3rd launch. German rocket scientist, Konrad Dannenberg, is seen discussing matters with several German officers at the test site. (Dannenberg is in the center of the group. Second from left is possibly Wernher von Braun. Second from right is possibly General Walter Dornberger.) The next slate reads: 1558 hours (3:58 PM) followed by one reading: Fire free. A German officer is seen speaking those words into a microphone. Camera shows a technicians hand as he sets firing switches on a control panel. ;Closeup of V2 rocket engine firing up. The rocket ascends successfully and disappears from sight. (Note: The footage at the end of clip showing the successful Oct 3 flight of A-4 V2 rocket was reportedly part of a film shown to Hitler at his Wolfe's Lair in 1943.) (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Force bomber aircraft dropping bombs over Germany during World War 2. A group of USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers in flight. A bombardier reloading machine gun in flight. Machine gun holder is written “Wrench”. A bomber flying past as seen from the ground. Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters of the Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26) in flight. Pilots in parachutes descending. A United States gunner onboard fires with machine gun at German fighters. Bullet belt of machine gun. A German fighter explodes after being hit by USAAF machine gun fire. USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers flying. Aerial view of a shipbuilding yard in Kiel, Germany. Aerial view of Kiel and surrounding areas. Incendiaries being dropped from B-24 Liberator bombers over Kiel. Smoke covers Kiel after bombing by United States Army. B-24 Liberator bombers with contrails flying as seen from an aircraft above. Incendiary bombs falling over Germany. Aircraft contrails form over bombs. A bomber’s wing. Aerial view of a German town with river. Bombardier with mask helmet holding a machine gun.
Free India Legion parade in Germany during World War II. German and Indian officers including leader of Indian independence movement, Subhash Chandra Bose, review Free India Legion members, former prisoners of war to serve Germany. Two soldiers holding Free India Legion flag. Insignia of the Free India Legion on the uniform of a soldier. Soldiers take an oath. Military vehicles driven in the parade. Soldiers in a truck. Soldiers pull a field artillery. They fire machine guns.
Effects of U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Germany during World War 2. German troops and civilians walk on street. Civilians clean up rubble. German civilians and troops in a chow line. Troops and civilians clean up cities, repair marshalling yards, and the buildings. Bombs falling over German targets from U.S. bomber planes. Animation of various targets in Germany shows Wilhelmshaven, Huls, Hamburg, and Schweinfurt, and the various products made there. Shows Marionburg where aircraft are made.