Aerial maneuvers of a British Spitfire plane with British insignia in England. The plane with a camouflaged body in flight. The insignia of Royal Air Force on the fuselage of the Spitfire plane. The plane dives off to its left in sky and disappears.
The Allied Control Council meets in Berlin. The Allied Council Authority Building. Council members seated around a meeting table in a hall talk to each other. Colonel Marcel Rotivel, Colonel C. Vialet, Louis Koeltz, Pierre Koenig, Ambassador J de St-Hardouin, Cousel Jeasn Baudier Mr. Calvy and Captain Henry Joos represent the French delegation in the meeting. The members talk to each other and smile. (World War II period).
First meeting of the Allied Control Council in the Allied Council Authority Building in Berlin, Germany. Members seated around a meeting table in a hall talk to each other. Members of the British delegation on the meeting table read a document. British members include Lieutenant Colonel Eric Green Wood, Allied Secretary Sir William Strang, Field Marshall Bernard L Montgomery and others. Members of U.S. and Russian delegations listen to them. (World War II period).
Hanging of a Nazi war criminal in Landsberg, Germany after end of World War 2. . American Military officers stand and converse near the gallows. The condemned man, attended by guards and a priest, comes out of a building. They climb the stairs of the scaffold for hanging. An American Field Grade Officer speaks of charges against the condemned man. Soldiers stand near the gallows and watch the hanging. The hooded, condemned man is dropped through a trap by the executioner, Johann Reichhardt, who wears the traditional German executioners’ attire of black coat, white shirt and, black bow tie and black hat. (Reichardt who is clearly seen standing on the platform, was a principal executioner for the Third Reich. But he was subsequently employed by the Occupation Authorities from November 1945, through May, 1946. to help execute Nazi war criminals at Landsberg am Lech by hanging. He was subsequently arrested in 1947, interned, and tried in a tribunal at Munich, where he was sentenced to strict punishment measures.) A military doctor uses a stethoscope to confirm death of the hanging man.
Nazi atrocities on display: A shrunken human head, shrunken by experiments and tortures of the Nazi Germans, on display in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. The shrunken head from Buchenwald Concentration Camp is introduced as evidence for war trials. An Allied military officer examines the head closely.
Captain John Huston's team coverage of Italian native residents in ragged conditions in a ruined village in Italy, during World War II. Legs and feet of male and female natives as they walk on uneven debris of wrecked buildings in the village. Bare footed native Italians walk on debris carrying baskets on their heads as they walk through wrecked buildings and alleys. Pathetically ragged small boy and girl amidst the ruins smile.
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