NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" in Germany. Marshal Alphonse Juin of France, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, arrives by car and is greeted by Lieutenant General William M. Hoge, Commander of the United States 7th Army . (General Hoge is also the Maneuver Director.) NATO military observers accompany Marshal Juin. They all walk through the woods to an encampment. There they examine a map depicting the exercise region. They pause outside a tent and then proceed further through the woods. a wooded area. Several They walk through the woods to an encampment. There they examine a map depicting exercise information. They pause outside a tent and then proceed further through the woods.
As part of the NATO forces, U.S. 7th Army tanks, troops, and artillery participate in "Exercise Cordon Bleu" with Central Army Group and 4th Tactical Air Force. One object of the exercise, among others, was to improve coordination of NATO forces of various types and nationalities. American M24 tanks move past a monitoring team parked at side of the road during the exercises in Germany. Another scene shows soldiers on motorcycles moving along a road and heavy armor following. A mortar team in the field. Infantry in defensive positions. A tank is guided into a firing position. Gunner on top of tank. Tank turret rotates. The name: "Austerlitz" painted on the turret. Tank commander looks through binoculars. Several NATO aircraft fly overhead and swoop low over water area. A tank rolls over a bridge, past Marshal Alphonse juin of France, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe, who is standing at side of road. Two F-80 jet fighters swoop low overhead. Marshal Juin is joined by two French officers, one a tank commander in helmet and goggles.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford, inspects U.S. installations in Germany. He is greeted by officers as he disembarks from an aircraft. He shakes hands with officers. He tours the Frankfurt Air Base and Rhine River Patrol. Several cars parked at the airport. He inspects a machine part. Other officers stand in the background. He bends down and observes in detail. He looks at a document. The officers salute him. He shakes hands with the officers.
Different scenes of dead bodies in the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany during World War II. Two soldiers on the side of a rail car. Piles of dead bodies of prisoners in the rail cars who were suffocated to death. U.S. soldiers hauling a dead body from water. People watch. Dead bodies piled up in several places. Face of a dead prisoner with one eye pierced. A German barn where prisoners were burned alive in the Gardelegen massacre. Remains of bodies of prisoners in the barn. A horse carriage enters the gates of the camp. Few officials with the Camp Commander. Soldiers with guns. Women come out of a building. Men and women in prison uniform as they move in groups.
German people compelled by Allied forces to visit liberated concentration camps in Germany during World War 2. Citizens enter camp facilities and see horrors of holocaust. They emerge visibly shaken. View of some survivors of the camp. The Nazi leaders and officials made to visit the camp. The officials visit the dungeons where the prisoners were tortured. Heaps of bodies in a dungeon. The officials cover their noses with their hands and come out of the dungeon. German citizens of Weimar in lines waiting to visit nearby Buchenwald Concentration Camp. German citizens walking on roads, passing a sign board for "Adolf Hitler Strasse" (Adolf Hitler Street). Citizens walk toward the camp and are seen entering through the gates of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The corpses laid in coffins arranged in a line. German men, women, and children walk in a line by the side of the coffins. Children hold their noses. Men and women come out of the camp shaken by the experience. The people are made to walk by piles of dead bodies of atrocity victims loaded in trucks . Dead bodies of children and men in piles. People walk along the side of a road past a long row of the bodies of camp victims. Flashback scene to German crowd cheering the Nazi Party at a rally in Nuremberg, and various rallies hailing Adolf Hitler. Scene of large group of Germans marching and carrying crosses for graves.
U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Allied Investigation Committee members tour Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany after its liberation near the end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. military officials enter the gates of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The officials walk on a path inside the camp. U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower with other officials inside the camp. Inmates demonstrate a torture device. General Eisenhower and officials look on. Dead victims of concentration camp. Bodies piled. Archbishop of Canterbury and other church dignitaries visit the camp and review the horror. The civilians of the Allied Investigation Commission inspect the camp. The officers walk in front of the camp. Bunk area with sign "5 men with operations in each box" is seen. Crematories, furnaces, and dead bodies piled up. A group of officials look on. The officials inside the dungeons with piles of dead bodies of human beings. The remains of burned bodies.
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