Ruins in Bavaria after World War II. Exteriors of a factory in Bavaria. Bomb damage to the factory. Mountains in background. Workers clean up rubble in the factory. German civilians read newspapers stuck on billboards.
Italian and German leaders Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler review a grand parade of fascists at Königsplatz, Munich, Bavaria. Motorbikes pass in a parade. They move past the Ehrentempel. Military troops lined on sides. Nazi German soldiers march with flags and swords. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler salute. Officers stand behind them. Crowds jam the square.
An animated map of Aachen and surrounding cities during World War 2, is shown at start of film. Entrenched German heavy artillery is seen firing from wooded areas. Closeups of German soldiers rushing from a bunker and uncovering a camouflaged mortar that they being firing from a trench. Glimpse of shell exploding near a building in the background that narrator says contains Americans. Closeup of German soldier looking upward at the sound of aircraft overhead. German soldiers running for cover. Volksgrenadiers running through backyards of damaged houses. Some seen looking out and firing from inside houses. One points at something outside. German soldier aiming and firing a sniper rifle equipped with large telescopic sight. Camera pans over landscape containing industrial facilities. Closeups of German soldiers in defensive positions. (Note: American forces are not actually seen in this film.)
British Conservative member of Parliament (MP) Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, arm of accompanying MP, as they walk through recently liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. She is obviously distressed, and sniffs some smelling salts from her purse. She and others look at a jumbled pile of human bodies on the ground, victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces. A flat body truck is piled with corpses, covered with pine boughs.Viewing members of the British Parliament delegation make notes in pads. Various views of the corpses and members of parliament and accompanying British and American officers. Member of Parliament being shown ovens in which corpses were incinerated. Members of the group look at pile of ashes from ovens and pick up human bones that did not burn. They examine a tall wooden gallows-like rack with hooks from which prisoners were suspended and tortured or hanged . An MP holds on to a rope or wire extending from one hook. Camp fence and guard tower in background.
Forced visit of the German civilians to Buchenwald concentration camp by the Allied forces after World War II. Emaciated and tortured inmates lean against walls of the concentration camp. German civilians walk in the area of the concentration camp and women cover their faces. United States soldiers make them walk through the area of the camp. Several women weep at the sight of Nazi atrocities victims.
Forced visit of the German civilians to Buchenwald concentration camp by the Allied forces after World War II. Pile of emaciated and starved dead bodies placed one over other. Large numbers of leaned naked dead bodies of Jewish inmates. German civilians walk directed by American soldiers and officers. German women weep at the sight. Men turn their faces around and walk away quickly.
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