A Russian feature film depicts the meeting of American and Russian troops on the River Elbe in Germany. Re-enactment : Russian troops on the shore of the River Elbe. A man inside a damaged house. The man carries a baggage and speaks to a woman. The man with the woman and a boy inside the damaged house. American troops on a craft. Russian troops on the shore. Two American officers look through binoculars. Soldiers behind the officers. American troops arrive in crafts on the shore of the River Elbe. American soldiers and Russian soldiers embrace in water. American officers looking through binoculars. Wrecked buildings in view. Vehicles move along the bridge on the River Elbe. Explosions in the background. An American officer looking through binoculars. American soldiers arriving at the shore and embracing Russian soldiers. An American soldier and a Russian soldier holding glasses toast. (World War II period).
A concentration camp in Germany after World War II. People in the concentration camp sitting outside a building inside a barbed wire enclosure. Victims lying in bunk beds inside prison barracks buildings. The victims with emaciated legs and heads. A stretcher with a corpse covered with a cloth being lowered into a grave by other prisoners in striped uniforms. Three victims wearing the striped uniforms watching through the barbed wire fence. A dead victim being lowered into a grave. An emaciated dead victim lying on the ground. Prison number tattooed on the arm of an inmate. Emaciated victims being dusted with delousing powder by camp men. An emaciated victim with another inmate in a striped uniform.
American soldiers in Schweinfurt, Germany at conclusion of World War II in Europe. An American soldier holding a gun beside the body of a German soldier hanging from a tree. The soldier takes the body down and lays it down on the ground. A soldier near the rubble of a ball bearing factory. A few GIs walk through the rubble of the factory. Two GIs inspecting boxes of ball bearings. One of the GIs running his hand through the ball bearings in the box. The Gis near a damaged rail car. One of the GIs prying through ball bearings on the ground beside a rail car.
Buchenwald concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany, following its liberation during World War II. Liberated inmates walking about in the camp. Barracks in the background. U.S. Army soldiers enter the concentration camp. The prison with the barracks and barbed wire fence. Starved and emaciated inmates of the camp sit near camp fires in courtyard of the camp. Concentration camp victims wearing striped prison uniforms. A jeep in the front and a truck painted white and marked with 'Switzerland' and 'Red Cross' drives past along a path. The barracks with the inmates and barbed wire fence in the foreground. A sign on a barrack reads 'All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army'. The U.S. flag and the Polish flag above the sign. A crowd of inmates cheers looking at a picture of Stalin on a barrack.
Buchenwald concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany after World War II. A heap of bones in the camp. Emaciated inmates of the camp. A few inmates seated on the ground. One of the inmates lying down. A few inmates looking through a barbed wire fence. Inmates wearing striped uniforms lying on the ground inside the barbed wire fence. A few inmates sitting on the ground. A column of inmates of the camp in striped uniforms walks past along a path.
Buchenwald concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany after World War II. A Red Cross worker taking emaciated bodies of inmates from a hand cart and heaping them on the ground. An American soldier beside the worker. Several GIs watch the worker. The heap of emaciated dead bodies. A few GIs beside the pile of the dead bodies. The soldiers looking at the bodies.