A film depicts the efforts made by U.S. soldiers to bring back German civilians to normal life in Germany after World War II. Germans seated at a table talk. German civilians in a restaurant. Nazi prisoners are being taken by non Nazi German soldiers. A sign on a building reads 'WFB'. German civilians show their documents to an officer seated at a table. The Germans read posters pasted on a wall. Clergymen walk on a road. A judge in a court in session. Members of a labor union seated. School children are taught by a teacher in a class. Men listen to an open discussion by an official. Various newspapers seen. Soldiers inspect vehicles. People seated in an office. Two of them go out from the office.
Training film for U.S. soldiers during occupation of Germany after World War 2, guiding them on their role of "reeducation" and restoring normal life to civilians in Germany after World War II. U.S. soldiers seated and Germans standing around them talking to the solders. A German MG Police officer outside a building. A German police officer monitors citizens in a line. Germans talk to U.S. soldiers outside the Office of Military Government for Bavaria, in Munich. The U.S. soldier reviews their identification papers and questions them. German children at play. A smiling American soldier seated with a group of young German children around him. A group of German boys plays baseball on the lawn in front of the largely destroyed Altes Armeemuseum in Munich (later home to the Bayerische Staatskanzlei or Bavarian State Chancellery) in Greek architectural style with six prominent ionic columns. A U.S. soldier talks to German civilians. Soldiers talking with German men , women and children. A soldier frisks men and women entering a secure area. German police grab and restrain a German citizen for some offense and escort him away. Young children seated and learning at an outdoor class. The children standing and smiling.
The Malmedy War Crimes Trials in Dachau, Germany. The defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars". The prosecutor quotes in part German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard the Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "the Battle of the Bulge". He goes on to tell how "German soldiers sang the sword and blood songs thus releasing them from any regulations as to the treatment of prisoners".
Trade unions in a building in Hamburg, Germany. At an outdoor ceremony Colonel Armetage, British Military Government, restores free trade unions and union buildings for the people of Hamburg. Paul Bebert, formerly a prisoner in a World War 2 Nazi concentration camp, speaks to a crowd and then mounts a scaffold and with a hammer and a chisel destroys a swastika on the facade of a building.
An elementary school teaches English in Vienna, Austria. Austrian children in a classroom recite their first lines of newly learned English. They come to the front of the class and speak English words by indicating the drawings on a blackboard.
Activities of men aboard USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) in the Atlantic Ocean during Operation High Jump. A sailor paints a landing craft on starboard aft aboard USS Mt. Olympus (AGC-8). The sailor paints metal aboard the ship. Men make cargo nets with 2" manila rope. Men milling about and taking sun bath on the deck.
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