Scenes at liberated concentration camps near end of World War 2 in Europe. A man opens crematory ovens at Buchenwald concentration camp. Heaps of bones and ashes. Sign of oven manufacturer: J A Topf and Sons, Erfurt, Germany. Men empty an oven of burned bones. View of instruments of torture in prison at Lublin, Poland (possibly part of Majdanek Concentration Camp in Lubin?) Victims of torture by Nazi German captors. Dead bodies of victims killed near fence at "schlachthaus" (slaughter house) in Leipzig Germany. Women look through fence at the dead. Bodies of victims who died attempting to flee burning barn. Local German citizens walk amongst the dead lying in concentration buildings and yards. German citizens are pressed into service loading the bodies of the dead on litters and into trucks. Concentration camp survivors are seen being given food and assistance. Two emaciated young victim survivors (they appear to be teenage boys) share a bowl of soup. German soldiers held as prisoners of war. German tribunal considers charges against Nazis. German citizens removing Nazi victims from mass grave. Bodies of the dead laid out on hillside. German citizens visit Buchenwald and see display of Nazi art and keepsakes created from human skin and bodies of victims.
German soldiers return to Germany following the end of World War 2 in Europe, and German civilians are expelled from Czechoslovakia. German soldiers are seen withdrawing from the area of the Czech-German border in the vicinity of Oelsnitz, Czechoslovakia and Pilsen, Germany. German soldiers, many of whom are very young, march down street. Soldiers move on bicycles, horse drawn carts and trucks on village street. Buildings in the background with advertisement in German.. Men ride in an automobile. View of German civilian women and children during forced expulsion of German civilians from the area. The German cilvians rest temporarily in a field. A German soldier shaves in the field. German civilians get into an army truck. Trees in the background. German truck convoy passes through town. Civilians on either side of street wave. They rest temporarily in a field. A soldier shaves in the field. Civilians get into an army truck. Trees in the background. German truck convoy passes through town. Civilians on either side of street wave.
Various views of Lieutenant colonel Creighton Abrams' 4th Armored Division M4A3E8 Sherman medium tank, "Thunderbolt VII," in Germany, near the end of World War 2, in Europe. Head-on view of the tank from roadbed, as it proceeds over the camera position. Several other views of the tank on dirt roads in Germany. An M5A1 light tank leads Abrams' tank in the last scene.
Bombed buildings after the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Reflection of bomb damage in water. Wooden fences beside water. Unter den Linden boulevard with rubble. View of Neue Wache or New Guard (Unter den Linden 4, 10117 Berlin, Germany) royal guard house heavily damaged. Direction signs on road written in Russian. Pedestrians on road with luggage carts pulled by hand. Statue standing still sheltered partially by ruins of walls that used to surround it. Bomb damaged buildings along Unter den Linden. People and soldiers walk past the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, Berlin, Germany). An old man stands nearby.
Germany defending against Soviet offensives along the Oder River in in Silesia, during World War 2. German infantry slogging through mud, past sign pointing back 6 Km to Ratibor,Germany, (present-day Racibórz, Poland) during World War 2. They are proceeding to reinforce defenses at Breslau. They carry many panzerfaust antitank weapons. Scene shifts to German officers conversing with General Hermann Niehoff, Commander of Breslau defenses. German gunners firing a Heavy 21 cm Mörser 18 gun at near-zero elevation. (General Niehoff holds his ears as it fires.) Shell explodes with large fireball in distance. Niehoff speaks with a smiling German officer and pats him on the shoulder, at an informal award ceremony on a street in outlying area of Breslau. German soldiers riding atop an Auto Union Kätzchen (armored personnel carrier) .It is towing a conveyance in which two soldiers ride.
Germany after Allied military forces takeover at close of World War II. Bomb damaged buildings in Leipzig in Germany. Ruins of buildings with walls shattered, windows burnt by bombing. Demolition charges go off in buildings and smoke rises from various buildings of the street. Demolition charge goes off with a puff of dust and smoke.