United States Navy sailors and Japanese girls out for a stroll in front of the Imperial palace in Tokyo, Japan, a few months after the end of World War 2. Buildings in the background. They sit and talk near the palace. They look at a diary. A sailor reads the diary. A girl writes down something in the diary.
Former Japanese prison guards and liberated allied prisoners of war at a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). The guards dig up Red Cross cartons intended for the prisoners. They were confiscated and buried by the Japanese. Soldiers stand with guns. A soldier plays guitar. A United States Army general speaks. Panoramic views of emaciated ex-prisoners. The liberated prisoners are loaded into transport planes. The airplane in flight.
U.S. 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of Bulge in the Western Front of World War 2. A map points Belgium, Germany and France. United States Army soldiers move forward in snow on the front. They pass through the Ardennes. Scenes of U.S. and German soldiers. Snow and ice covered forest. American soldiers on tanks and half-track vehicles. U.S. troops cross the Rhine River over a captured bridge at Remagen. The 1st. Division continues to move through Germany all the way to Czechoslovakia. German soldiers load up into trucks at war's end. Soldiers smoke, talk and rest. A soldier talks on phone. Quick scene from Nuremberg trials.
Exterior view of the Westminster Abbey (Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom) at Westminster in London. Shows soldiers and civilians leaving and entering Westminster Abbey. American and British flags hoisted at half-mast from a building's balcony, honoring the death of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (World War II period).
United States soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division raise a large U.S. flag to cover a German Swastika emblem on top of the Tribune at Zeppelinfeld in Nurnberg,Germany, near end of World War 2 in Europe. Commander of the U.S. 7th Army Lieutenant General Alexander M Patch, Major General John W O'Daniel and other officers review the troops from the speaker's platform of the Nuremberg Zeppelin Field. At a ceremony General Patch awards Congressional Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Colonel Keith Ware, Lieutenant John J. Tominac,Sergeant Russell E Dunham,Sergeant Lucian Adams and Private Wilburn K. Ross.
Unrest in Germany in 1930's during crisis of unemployment and inflation that had followed after World War I. A closed and boarded-up German factory. Two barefooted, jobless German men sleep in a park. During Great Depression in the United States, a weary woman is seen walking through an alley and looking in garbage cans. Sign for Los Angeles California Leather Company seen on building behind her. Children play in streets of a slum area. In Germany, scene of boys in training in Hitler Youth and carrying shovels, then carrying rifles and learning low crawling and military attack techniques. German farmers plowing on farms. Several night scenes including Nazis and brownshirts on the march, burning of books. Secret police or Gestapo and soldiers escort a church priest or clergy out of a church. During time of rising anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi-led Germany, scenes of abuse and Gestapo arrests of some German citizens such as Jewish people, suspected Communists, political foes, and others critical of the Nazi party. A group of people attack and beat Jewish people in streets. A parade by the Wehrmacht German troops. Rearmament of Germany in 1930's. Scenes from busy German munitions factories. A Junkers Stuka aircraft factory filled with planes being built. A German artillery factory. German Luftwaffe and Panzer attack. German tanks roll over landscape. Scenes at end of war of burning German cities. Women run through bomb-wrecked streets of devastated Berlin during an aerial bombing raid by Allied aircraft. One woman falls as she runs. A woman and children race for the doors of a bomb shelter in Germany. The bomb wrecked streets of Berlin heaped with rubble and wreckage. Elderly German man walks through ruins. Small locomotive train running carrying cars of cleared rubble. German civilian dig potatoes in gardens. German women stand atop a collapsed building pile and clear rubble with shovels. German man waters a newly planted garden with empty shells of wrecked buildings in background. Newspapers produced by M.G. seen in newspaper printing press and rolling off presses. Binding of booklets and magazines from a German printing press. Sculptured bust of Goethe superimposed over books written by Goethe and Schiller. A montage shows in contrast the peaceful life in Germany before war, and scenes again of war, with alternating, juxtaposed scenes: German police officer escorts children across a street, book burning by Nazis, Gestapo violent arrest of a German citizen who is being pushed and hauled away. A German football (soccer) match in a stadium. Cook serves food to a man. A man in a concentration camp tips a bowl to his mouth. German children playing in a pool. Then juxtaposed scene with German women and children racing for a shelter during an air raid in World War 2. Scenes of bomb explosions. A peaceful waterfall.