A U.S. Army jeep drives past a road sign reading "Nordhausen, Harz." American GIs are seen mingling with German town folk in front of the Hasselee Hof. Two American soldiers talk with German girls. One soldier points to a tag with letter "P" on one girl's coat. A U.S. soldier drinks a small glass of spirits poured by a German workman, from a large wicker-covered container. U.S. soldiers wash and shave by a tank in front of a destroyed building. U.S. soldiers with army vehicles parked in the town. U.S. troops walk along sidewalk in Nordhausen. Views of many destroyed buildings. (World War II period).
President Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Clement Attlee emerge from Cecelienhof Palace and are seated in wicker chairs. Members of their staffs stand behind and to the sides. Photographers take pictures of the "Big Three" leaders at the Potsdam Conference.
World War 2 displaced Russian people gets off of railroad trains which are decorated with greenery and large pictures of Stalin. Russian men, women with their children and luggage waiting and relaxing on railway station. Two United States Army soldiers in conversation with a Russian woman holding an infant in her lap. Russians in an open field, relaxing and waiting for transportation to homeland. Soviet soldiers are also among the group.
The Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis. Red Cross trucks and relief from Switzerland reaches the concentration camp. Amongst the 2000 survivors of this camp, almost a 1000 are boys of age, fourteen or less. The weak, starved and tortured inmates from various European countries, at the camp. Old men and children at the camp with starved and leaned bodies. Stacks of dead bodies at crematory, in a truck, at the experimental building have prisoner number and nationality tattooed on their stomach. A weapon used for torturing. Crematory ovens at with the nameplate of its manufacturer 'JA Topfe and Sohne.'. The bones and remains of dead inside the ovens. (World War II period).
The Dachau concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Local town's people brought to witness the atrocities at the camp. Weeping women rush out of a compound after seeing the dead. Clothes of the victims who died in a gas chamber. The gas chamber camouflaged as a shower bath written 'Brausebad' (Shower-bath). The outlet pipes for carrying gases inside the chamber, push button and valve controls to maintain the gas. A box of cyanide powder used to mix with the gas. Crematory where the dead from the gas chambers were taken. Inside a crematory oven burnt skulls, bones and parts of human bodies. Emaciated , starved prisoners of the camp, all without any clothes, too weak to stand or walk.
Arnsdadt concentration camp which housed Russian and Polish prisoners of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Tents and fenced boundaries at the camp. German civilians dig common grave and bury the dead. U.S. soldiers guard them. Dead body of a United States army man shot in forehead by the retreating Germans. Ground covered with dead bodies of the victims of atrocities at this concentration camp.