United States President Harry S. Truman visits Berlin for the Potsdam Conference at the end of World War 2 in Europe. President Truman, Admiral William D. Leahy, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, sit in open car to view Berlin in ruins. Berlin buildings and façade are destroyed from heavy bombing. Ruins of the Reich Chancellery (Wilhelmstraße 77 10117 Berlin Germany) is seen. President Truman’s car passes by the Berlin Victory Column or Siegessäule (Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany). Closer view of the Berlin Victory Column, featuring the Victoria statue on top. Large portraits of President Truman, Russian Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill on a Russian reviewing stand on Berlin’s Unter den Linden Avenue. President Truman’s convoy approaches the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany), damaged by heavy bombing. Cars driving on the Unter den Linden Avenue. The Berliner Schloss (Schloßpl. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany) with significant damage. The Secret Service stand on running boards of President Truman's car. President Truman greets a man from his car. President Truman, Admiral Leahy and Secretary of State Byrnes talking. A huge pile of rubble stands in front of a damaged building. Crowds of men and soldiers surround President Truman and his car. Soldiers with cameras take photographs. Secret Service men running alongside President Truman’s car. President Truman’s car passes by a Nazi-style building, driving into the Autobahn. A Military Police vehicle, which acts as guard, follows behind President Truman's car heading to Potsdam.
Allied air war over Germany and Japan in World War II. A map showing the Germany occupied areas in Europe and Japan occupied region in South Asia. Aerial views of Allied bomber aircraft flying over the city of Berlin, Germany. The target, Messerschmitt AG, a German aircraft manufacturer company, is bombed by the bombers. Bombs strike the target and huge explosion destroys the factory. Allied bombers drop bombs over targets in Tokyo, Japan. Bombs hit the ground and explosion smoke can be seen from the plane during saturation bombing of Tokyo, Japan.
Evidence of holocaust atrocities in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. German civilians in Gardelegen Germany carrying crosses for 1,100 fresh graves for victims of the holocaust at Gardelegen. The German citizens walking on the streets carrying the crosses. Buildings in view. Scenes from various liberated concentration camps in Germany. A crowd around a liberated concentration camp building. The Allied army soldiers enter a gate of a camp. Soldiers enter through gates of several different camps with sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on Dachau Concentration Camp gate. Scenes of happy liberated inmates at various camps. Two men walk in front of a crowd entering a liberated camp. Liberated concentration camp inmates in striped prison uniforms smile and some wave. Some of them appear to be very young men or older boys. Men cheering. U.S. Army soldier leans head out of watch tower and looks down on concentration camp field and barracks. Freed inmates around and on top of a concentration camp barracks building. Allied soldiers escort horse drawn wagon with potatoes in it through camp as inmates scramble to gather food. Starved man on a street scraping spilled food of some kind from the ground and eating it. Soldiers bring out body of liberated prisoners from barracks and dungeons. A soldier carries an injured person in a stretcher. Men carry emaciated and injured victims into a vehicle. A victim man lying on the ground. Physicians provide medical aid to victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Doctors examine a man, a woman, and several starving child victims.
Aerial views from U.S. warplane of daylight bombing raid over Germany. Bombs exploding on roads, buildings, and various targets in Germany near the end of World War 2, in Germany. Bombs away view from aicraft as air-to-ground munitions trail smoke and descend toward the ground. Brown smoke rising and obscuring area from munitions striking ground targets. Change of scene to higher altitude view of explosions on wooded area. Bombs bursting on ground targets raising white smoke and brown smoke in different areas. Flames beginning in brown smoke.
A humor segment from Army-Navy Screen Magazine. Montage of scenes in Germany featuring German armed forces and Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany. Via video editing, Hitler and the soldiers are shown performing the "Lambeth Walk" dance, complete with synchronized background music. A woman from Army-Navy Screen Magazine introduces the 'Farewell Performance' fulfilling the request of a Coast Guard man. The film includes Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, addressing German soldiers and staff, and watching them in parade review as they march, some in goose step. A German band playing musical instruments. The German soldiers march and dance to 'The Lambeth Walk' via edited video that shows them marching forward and back as if they were performing the Lambeth Walk dance steps. The soldiers hold Nazi flags. The soldiers give Nazi salute as Adolf Hitler meets them. (World War II period).
Nazi leaders in Germany giving speeches during World War 2. Soldiers from various countries like England, Poland, Greece, America and Norway. View of young boy soldiers in Germany at end of World War 2. Earlier scene of Nazi Waffen SS soldiers as they march with goosestep on parade. Victims executed in Nazi massacre in Italy shown with hands tied behind their backs. Nazi victims mourned in France. Bodies of women and children slain by the Nazi SS in Belgium. A large crowd of civilians gathered to pay homage to the dead in Lublin, Poland. Allied military vehicles and personnel trample and walk on Nazi flags and posters in Germany. A pile of Nazi flags burning in the street, as men, women and children walk past. German prisoners of war assembled in a large outdoor enclosure, and moving out in a line. German soldiers surrendering, with white flags displayed. American soldiers look at open mass graves of persons shot dead by Nazis. Emaciated boy children inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp stand behind barbed wire fence around the time of its liberation. The prior scenes are contrasted with ordinary life in the United States. A boy retrieves a ball from a pond, and throws it. Children play on see saws at a playground. A baby take first few faltering steps. A girl hangs from monkey bar. A man and two women share a newspaper article.