American forces in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Landmarks include the heavily damaged New Town Hall, Burgplatz, and a church. At start of film, German civilians are seen running along railroad tracks, past war-damaged platform, to reach a train. Hungry German civilian men wrestle with a man on a sidewalk holding a large piece of meat. American soldiers walking across a city square in single file. Two Sherman tanks move across city square following the tracks of a tramway. The overhead electric wires for the tram are visible. More views of American soldiers walking and some in jeeps. A tilted view of the Reform Evangelist Church. Then camera straightens out and shows it properly. In front of the church, two American soldiers sit on a half-track with M45 Quadmount (Maxson) Anti-Aircraft guns installed on it. Back of the half-track has "660 AAA" stenciled on it. Many Jerry cans are held in racks along the sides of the half-track. Scene shifts to a formation of German prisoners of war with their hands over their heads. Close-up views of faces of German soldier prisoners of war. Camera pans across them, closeup. They carry all their personal gear, including bed rolls, but no weapons. View from behind them. Wider glimpse of the prisoners under guard. The severely damaged 1928 Kroch Building (Krochhochhaus) is seen in the background. Several German prisoners sit in a jeep, guarded by an American soldier with an M3 .45-caliber sub-machine gun ("grease gun"). At the end of the film, the bomb damaged 1905 New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) is seen in the background.
U.S. 69th Infantry Division and Russian 58th Guard Division forces meet in Germany during World War II, near the Elbe River at Torgau. A U.S. soldier tries a Russian rifle. Russian and U.S. soldiers eat and try to make each other understand with gestures. A sign reads 'Elbe'. A U.S. and a Soviet soldier stand in the foreground. Soldiers hold Soviet, U.S. and English flags. Soviet and American officers shake hands as soldiers look on. Officers at a drinks table. An American soldier lights up a cigarette for a Soviet soldier.
German prisoners-of-war are marched through Halle, Germany by United States infantrymen during World War 2. American tank parked alongside marching prisoners. Some prisoners wear civilian clothes.
United States Army soldiers run across intersection of street towards a doorway of a house in Halle, Germany during World War 2. United States soldier, with bandage on his nose, observes surroundings behind him while holding rifle. United States infantrymen run along the side of an apartment. Other infantrymen hide in exterior basement stairwell. POV view of soldier firing machine gun from house window towards adjacent building.
United States Army jeep arrives in Hadamar Clinic (also known as Hadamar Euthanasia Center), a Nazi institution seized by First Army troops in Germany during World War II. Flag of United States drapes over the front of the Hadamar Euthanasia Center after being seized by the Americans. The locals referred to the building as the "house of shutters." United States soldiers get out of jeep and enter the building. United States soldier walks through ward and talks to a patient in bed. Patient in bed talks to United States soldier. United States soldier inspects the rib area of an emaciated, bald male patient. Soldier uncovers the bedsheet of patient and touches patient’s skeletal legs. Bald patient in hospital bed. Soldier sees a patient sitting on bed. Soldier inspects emaciated, shirtless patient. Gravediggers with gas masks exhume corpses from graveyard attached to the Nazi institution. Gravediggers digging for corpses. Gravedigger drags an emaciated, naked corpse out of the soil. A gravedigger unearths a corpse. Gravediggers drag a corpse by her limbs from the earth. Gravediggers pull out a naked corpse. Gravediggers line up corpses for later inspection by WCIT (War Crimes Investigation Team) officials. Major Bulker performs an autopsy of the corpses found in the Hadamar Euthanasia Center graveyard. One soldier takes notes, and another soldier takes photographs of the autopsy. Soldier taking notes while smoking a pipe. United States soldiers interrogating Hadamar Euthanasia Center Chief Administrator, Alfons Klein, and male nurse, Karl Willig. Soldier shows bottle of morphine, used by nurses to euthanize patients. Alfons Klein and Karl Willig leaves the interrogation room.
United States Army M-4 Sherman tanks and armored vehicles pass by burning vehicles and destroyed equipment belonging to the German Army on the way to Worms, Germany during World War 2. Tanks pass by a wrecked wagon on the road. Closer view of the destroyed wagon. A dead driver and a dead horse with wagon.