U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson escorts U.S. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson in Weilheim, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. Forth Worth Texas newspaperman Mr. Amon Carter talks to his son Lieutenant Amon Carter, Jr., recently liberated from a German prison camp. U.S. Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson escorts U.S. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Mr. Carter to U.S. XIX Corps area where they visit U.S. Army General Raymond S. McLain. Officers stand next to a sign : 'Truman Bridge leads to Berlin'.
German civilians in Grimma, Germany near the end of World War 2. They stand on the east bank of the Mulde River waiting to cross it.
A Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany towards the end of World War II. A sign reads 'Landsberg Reg.Bez.Oberbayern'. German civilians arrive at the concentration camp. U.S. soldiers at the camp. Prison barracks and barbed wire fences at the camp. Civilians dig graves to bury dead bodies of camp victims. U.S. soldiers climb on a watch tower. Emaciated corpses of camp victims lying on the ground. The civilians dig graves in the background.
A Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany 10 days before the end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. soldiers at the camp. Emaciated corpses of camp victims lying on the ground. Barbed wire fences and prison barracks at the camp. A U.S. soldier talks with liberated prisoners. (Note: A surviving prisoner of this camp, who was liberated at this time, adds that the front gate was on fire early in the morning as the U.S. Army entered the camp site.)
The Langenstein Concentration Camp for political prisoners in Germany towards the end of World War II. Sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and are placed in ambulances at the camp. Prisoners on litters are carried from ambulances to 20th Field Hospital tents in Halberstadt. A medical officer wearing a mask over his mouth, washes the emaciated body of a prisoner. Prisoners' uniforms and personal effects are burned near a tent by U.S. soldiers.
Bomb damage in Wiesbaden, Germany during World War II. Aerial views from a U.S. Army Air Force aircraft making a low pass show bomb damaged military installations and marshaling yards. Aerial views of bomb-damage in a concentration camp. A large town square is seen from the air, with numerous refugees moving about . Bomb-damaged buildings in the town. A U.S. Army L5 Stinson aircraft parked on an airfield.