U.S. 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry Regiment attacks Germany during World War II. Guns are fired from M4 Sherman tanks. A soldier in a dug in position firing a machine gun. An African American soldier fires a machine gun from an M4 tank as another African American soldier sits beside him on the tank and plays a guitar. Young German children stand and watch near the tank and they cover their ears as the gun is fired at enemy German positions.
Damaged and destroyed buildings in Lubeck, Germany during World War II, following British bombing with conventional bombs and incendiary bombs on March 28, 1942. A damaged bridge. Damaged cultural and religious monuments including Lübeck Cathedral, St. Peter's Church, the town hall and St. Mary's Church. Aerial view of the buildings. Damaged buildings along a water front. Bombed out buildings. Interiors of a bombed church with rubble everywhere. Ruins of the bombed and burned buildings.
A chimpanzee works at a zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. A chimpanzee named Sonny helps the zookeepers during the zoo’s feeding time. Sign for sealions in German. The chimpanzee picks fish from a container and places them in a bucket. People look on as the chimpanzee feeds the fishes to sea lions. Chimpanzee tosses fish to hungry sealions. A zookeeper feeds a sealion with more fish.
Nazi leaders Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Baldur Von Schiarch, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel wearing headphones sit in prisoners dock and listen to testimony during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Hess sits with his head lowered, appearing ill. A man comes and speaks to him. Ribbentrop talks to Hess who then leaves the prisoner's dock. Policemen stand at the end of the dock. Men at British and American prosecution tables.
Nazi leaders tried for war crimes during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Justice Kravechenko of Soviet Union reads a statement from a bench. Prisoner's dock and courtroom as Sir Geoferry Lawrence speaks about Schutzstaffel, slave labor and experiments on human beings. The Tribunal adjourns and people stand to leave. Erich Raeder, Fritz Sauckel, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop in prisoner's dock. The Tribunal resumes again, the following day.
More than 200 political prisoners burnt alive whereas some shot dead or electrocuted as they ran to welcome American troops at Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. The camp comprised of mainly Russian, Czech and Polish prisoners. Dead prisoners near the barbed wires. Russian slave women look at them from across barbed wire fence. (World War II period).
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