Two U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain air evac transport aircraft land on an airstrip. Scene shifts to ambulance stopping at hospital tent and medics removing patients on stretchers. Patients are carried into hospital tents. Patients lying on stretcher inside tent.
Views of the Schauspielhaus on the Maximilianstrasse in Munich, where the The Munich Kammerspiele (Münchner Kammerspiele) theater company is presenting a play. People entering the building. Inside,a U.S. Army Lieutenant shakes hands with the theater company director, Erich Engel, and presents him with a document, as some cast members and theater patrons watch. Closeup of Engel. Local officials converse at front of theater. American military personnel are among the audience seen in background. Scenes shift to cast members getting made up for their roles in Shakespeare's Macbeth. A man being attended by a makeup artist. A woman at her dressing table. Makeup being applied to another man. Backstage, a manager rings a warning bell for the cast and members hurry to take their positions onstage. The stage manager strikes a gong and men raise the curtain. The cast onstage performing.
U.S. soldiers raid houses in Munich in search of suspects during World War II. Line of tanks, jeeps, and half tracks along roads and streets of Munich on swoop raid. Army vehicles move through bombed out Munich. Infantrymen run along street of Munich. Soldiers raid house for suspected under grounders. Soldiers search a house. A man being arrested. Suspect enters a Command Post. Officer questions the suspect. Suspected homes being raided by soldiers, arrests are made and suspects being brought in for questioning. Suspects leave the Command Post afterwards.
The Feldherrnhalle (Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München, Germany) in Munich, Germany shortly after end of World War II in Europe. Statues of emperors and warriors. White lettering in German, on side of the building saying 'Concentration Camp Dachau - Belsen - Buchenwald. I am ashamed that I am a German.' Nazi swastika symbol and a statue in front of a building destroyed by Allied bombers. Adolf Hitler's original Brown House (NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1, 80333 München, Germany) in ruins from bombing of the Allied bombers. Damage done nearby Odeonsplatz (Odeonspl. 1, 80539 München, Germany). Women on bicycles pass by the Feldherrnhalle.
View of the bomb damaged Frauenkirche Catholic cathedral in downtown Munich, Germany, at the end of World War 2 in Europe. Camera pans from top of towers down to ground level, with a pile of debris seen near the entrance between the towers. View of the interiors of the Church sanctuary, heavily damaged by bombing, with open sky visible. Wide view from an elevated tower position (presumably a Frauenkirche tower) of the bombed remains of the city of Munich at the close of World War II. Several wrecked buildings in view. View toward New Town Hall. Next scene at ground level shows U.S. Army jeeps and trucks, along with pedestrians passing by on street of Marienplatz with the New Town Hall behind.
German prisoners marched through streets of Munich Germany, after its capture by Allied forces in World War II. Column of German Army soldiers 3 deep marches out of the city. United States Army jeeps seen on streets. Several people seen riding bicycles on street. Pedestrians seen on streets.