Events at a meeting of Sixth Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg in 1934. Fuhrer Adolf Hitler stands in his open top car and gives a Nazi salute to his troops. The troops pass in review on street. Hermann Goering stands next to Hitler's car. Various German officers give Nazi salutes. Flag bearers head the troops. Heinrich Himmler heads the SS (Schutzstaffel) troops. Treasurer of NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's Party) stands among other officers. (From a U.S. government-edited version of production "Triumph of the Will" with World War 2 period English audio narration and commentary added.)
British conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Mavis C.Tate,and another MP, sitting in an American jeep with top up, speak with a British officer. They and several other jeeps, carrying visiting British MPs proceed into the liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. An effigy of a prisoner is seen illustrating form of punishment meted out to inmates. The visiting party includes: Mrs. Tate; Sir Graham White; Sir Henry James; Lord Stanhope; Lord Addison; Sir Archibald Southby; Lieutenant Colonel Wickham; Ness Edward; M. Silverman; and Tom Driberg. Accompanied by U.S. and British officers, they walk about among the camp buildings, where cleanup is underway. A large mass of camp debris is being burned. Freed inmates are seen throughout the camp. Some of them speak with the MPs and explain things to them. Mrs. Tate converses with former prisoners who show their tatooed identification numbers. (World War II period).
Three children, former concentration camp prisoners, stand at barbed wire of Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its liberation from Nazi German forces. One of the boys is on crutches. Several freed prisoners huddle over a cooking fire in the camp yard. Inside a building, Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, and other members of British Parliament, pose with emaciated former prisoners. They speak with the liberated prisoners who lie, covered with blankets, on mats on the floor. Mrs. Tate walks out of the camp with a group of American Army officers. (World War II period).
U.S. troops of the 45th Division, 157th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, I Company, entering the area of Dachau concentration camp, in the final days of World War 2. They are seen escorting German prisoners of war, with their hands raised, along a railroad siding. U.S. troops in front of a railroad train of boxcars. A dead German soldier, face down on the ground. The U.S. troops follow the railroad track into area of buildings, and run to take cover due to incoming fire. One fires a browning automatic rifle from an elevated walkway. Other American soldiers hunker down behind the walkway wall. U.S. Army soldier fires rifle while standing on a roadway. Surrendering German soldier, carrying a white flag, is attacked by a concentration camp inmate, as several other liberated inmates and U.S. Army soldiers stand nearby, watching. (Note: Opening cameraman slate states date as 04-27-1945, but historical records indicate this took place on 04-29-1945.)
Liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp during World War 2. A Jewish boy aged 11, a prisoner in various camps for four years, plays an accordion. Long line of civilians and some uniformed soldiers is seen stretching down a road inside the camp (potentially German civilians, German soldiers, and possibly some conscripted inmates and Hungarian troops.) They are passing before a group of liberated concentration camp prisoners as part of a lineup, potentially for the liberated prisoners to point out those they recognize as perpetrators and accomplices for involvement in the camp. German prisoners stand with their hands up, being viewed by liberated concentration camp inmates while U.S. Army forces stand by and in the background.
Laterally cutaway specimens of human body parts and organs displayed at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, as evidence of Nazi atrocities in World War 2. Various specimens of the human body, including a human head and other organs cut laterally and in preservation display cases. They are arrayed on a table at the Conentration Camp, liberated by American forces four days prior.
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