P-47 Thunderbolt fighter P-38 Lightning planes in Munich Germany. P-47s land on airstrip. Formation of P-38s in flight. P-38s landing on an airstrip.
Bodies of concentration camp victims who died in transit. German civilians look at mass of dead bodies at Dachau Concentration Camp outside Weimar Germany. Women seen apparently feeling ill as they come out of the building. Clothes of the prisoners hung outside the building in which prisoners were gassed to death. Interiors of the gas chambers. Gas vents, dummy shower heads, engineer's room, intake and outtake valves. Hand valve to regulate gas pressure, a can of cyanide and crematories with ovens. Remains of dead inside the ovens. Feeble prisoners show the effects of Nazi brutalities. (World War II period).
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Kurt Gatner, a former Chief of Prime Minister Schuschingg's body guard from Vienna, Austria. He states how he was badly treated at various concentration camps. He talks about the harsh punishments given at these camps. He thanks the American and other Allied forces for liberating him and many others from the camp. Other internees in the background. (World War II period).
Events related to the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Shows two guards standing outside the 'Judges Room'. Judges from Allied nations seated around a table. On 1st October 1946, judges give their final verdict. Scenes from the court room. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, President of the tribunal states the final verdict. Majority of the accused Nazi criminals are given death sentence, some of them given imprisonment and only a few are found not guilty. Multiple Nazi leaders are shown in the courtroom and in flashback scenes from the World War 2 years, including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel (both also shown at unidentified signing ceremonies), Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Many flashback scenes show scenes of Nazi activities, Nazi atrocities, and the holocaust during World War 2 including: Boycott of Jewish shops and stores in 1930s, beating, dragging, and expulsion of resident Jews from ghettos, Nazi rallies with crowds giving Nazi salutes, book burning, massed overcrowded prisoner encampments, emaciated Concentration camp victims, nurses and doctors aiding starving and liberated concentration victims, gestapo dragging a man across a street, bin of gold teeth of murdered concentration camp victims being poured out for display, a German ship being launched, Erich Raeder meeting with Japanese military leaders or political leaders from Imperial Japan, and talking to Adolf Hitler; Hitler youth in training; Nazi slave labor workers at terraced hillside mines digging and doing mining operations; interior of a Nazi German submarine; German industrial worker at a steel furnace in a munitions war production factory. View of prison cells at Nuremberg Prison just north of Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, where some Nazi criminals were kept during the trials. View of exterior prison cell door of Hermann Goering. A guard patrols the roof of the Nuremberg Prison.
Various delegates at the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Officials descend steps of building. President Harry S Truman, Joseph Stalin, Secretary James F Byrnes and Foreign Minister Vyacheslev M Molotov descend steps of Little White House. Dignitaries include Admiral William D Leahy. They pose on steps for photographers.
Potsdam Conference in Cecilienhof Palace (Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam, Germany). United States President Harry S. Truman seated in car talks to an official. Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov and other Russian officers enter the Palace. Joseph Stalin shakes hands with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Stalin, Truman, and Churchill pose. Notables include Clement Attlee, Vyacheslev Molotov, Andrei Gromyko and Andrey Vyshinsky. View of delegations and conference table from above. Russian guards salute the arriving delegation outside the Palace.