Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A German man reads a newspaper and looks at advertisements. Narrator indicates many advertisements are seeking missing persons after the war. Women workers at the Central Postal Inquiry Bureau in Hamburg reviewing written requests that have been received as people look for relatives. People seek permission to travel by trains. German people on foot and with bicycles wait in groups to cross pontoon bridges built by British engineers. Military government trucks and traffic cross a bridge with city buildings visible behind. Elevated view over tracks of locomotive train pulling slowly into train station with many passenger rail cars. Large group of German people on the train platform as the railroad train pulls up. People struggle to get onto the train. British guards pull a man away from a train at a station as he is trying to ride on the side bumper. Bicyclists and pedestrians moving forward on town streets after clearance. More views of fully loaded passenger train pulling out from German train station with many passengers visible in open top cars. A British flag at a military government court room. A hearing being conducted. An officer presides as judge over the hearing. Several man stand in front of the judge in a largely empty court room, including the accused, an interpreter, German defense counsel, and British prosecutor. A German police band plays. Narrator describes the remaking of the German police force. Two uniformed German police officers talking on a street as traffic goes by. A Red Cross team with nurses and technicians checks the blood pressure, height, weight and performs laboratory tests like blood content, measuring the health of German civilians, who the narrator says are receiving about 1000-1200 calories per day, or half the British military allotment. German children idle, at work, and at play: Two young boys playing in rubble of destroyed buildings; A German teenage boy walks behind a horse plowing a field; boys and girls playing amid rubble of buildings; German boys playing on moving turnstile equipment or a moving partial antiaircraft gun platform in a bombed railroad yard. Wide view of German children playing on top of a giant mound of dirt and rubble from bombing. Older German man delivers a speech and people listen in a hall. A German school teacher in a classroom (possibly a church, with crucifix on wall behind him), and crowd of children in the classroom. Chalk board at front of room. German boys seated at desks with pencils and paper doing school work.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A British soldier guards the area as German civilians move about on a bridge in the background. Women move down a staircase. An air raid siren sounds. People sleep on benches. Shadow of girls as they move round in a circle. A damaged building. Judges being administered an oath of office by a British officer. Girls hold hands as they move round in a circle.
War crimes trial in Germany of 61 accused war criminals associated with the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, following end of World War 2. Interior of a tribunal. American officers sit at a table. The U.S. flag in the background. An American prosecutor questions one of the accused Germans and hands him a card with the numeral 13 for identification purposes. The accused are given cards for identification purposes. An accused answers the questions.
U.S. General Joseph Taggart McNarney rides across two new bridges over the Rhine in Germany. Two bridges over river Rhine. One bridge for automobile traffic. General arrives by car and crosses the bridge. Board reads 'General George C Marshall Bridge, constructed by Engineer Special Service Regiment'. General arrives as officers greet him. Train arrives and leaves. New railroad being observed by General and other officers.
Activities at a slaughterhouse in Germany. The interior of the slaughterhouse. Men wield sharp knives to butcher and cut meat chunks. Butchered meat chunks hanging from the ceiling.
Activities of children on the streets in Germany soon after the end of World War 2. The children play on the streets. Boys and girls hold hands in a circle and play a game with one other child crouched in the middle of the moving circle. Buildings seen in the background. A baby in a pram. A lamppost nearby.