Evidence of holocaust atrocities in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. German civilians in Gardelegen Germany carrying crosses for 1,100 fresh graves for victims of the holocaust at Gardelegen. The German citizens walking on the streets carrying the crosses. Buildings in view. Scenes from various liberated concentration camps in Germany. A crowd around a liberated concentration camp building. The Allied army soldiers enter a gate of a camp. Soldiers enter through gates of several different camps with sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on Dachau Concentration Camp gate. Scenes of happy liberated inmates at various camps. Two men walk in front of a crowd entering a liberated camp. Liberated concentration camp inmates in striped prison uniforms smile and some wave. Some of them appear to be very young men or older boys. Men cheering. U.S. Army soldier leans head out of watch tower and looks down on concentration camp field and barracks. Freed inmates around and on top of a concentration camp barracks building. Allied soldiers escort horse drawn wagon with potatoes in it through camp as inmates scramble to gather food. Starved man on a street scraping spilled food of some kind from the ground and eating it. Soldiers bring out body of liberated prisoners from barracks and dungeons. A soldier carries an injured person in a stretcher. Men carry emaciated and injured victims into a vehicle. A victim man lying on the ground. Physicians provide medical aid to victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Doctors examine a man, a woman, and several starving child victims.
Aerial views from U.S. warplane of daylight bombing raid over Germany. Bombs exploding on roads, buildings, and various targets in Germany near the end of World War 2, in Germany. Bombs away view from aicraft as air-to-ground munitions trail smoke and descend toward the ground. Brown smoke rising and obscuring area from munitions striking ground targets. Change of scene to higher altitude view of explosions on wooded area. Bombs bursting on ground targets raising white smoke and brown smoke in different areas. Flames beginning in brown smoke.
A humor segment from Army-Navy Screen Magazine. Montage of scenes in Germany featuring German armed forces and Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany. Via video editing, Hitler and the soldiers are shown performing the "Lambeth Walk" dance, complete with synchronized background music. A woman from Army-Navy Screen Magazine introduces the 'Farewell Performance' fulfilling the request of a Coast Guard man. The film includes Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, addressing German soldiers and staff, and watching them in parade review as they march, some in goose step. A German band playing musical instruments. The German soldiers march and dance to 'The Lambeth Walk' via edited video that shows them marching forward and back as if they were performing the Lambeth Walk dance steps. The soldiers hold Nazi flags. The soldiers give Nazi salute as Adolf Hitler meets them. (World War II period).
Nazi leaders in Germany giving speeches during World War 2. Soldiers from various countries like England, Poland, Greece, America and Norway. View of young boy soldiers in Germany at end of World War 2. Earlier scene of Nazi Waffen SS soldiers as they march with goosestep on parade. Victims executed in Nazi massacre in Italy shown with hands tied behind their backs. Nazi victims mourned in France. Bodies of women and children slain by the Nazi SS in Belgium. A large crowd of civilians gathered to pay homage to the dead in Lublin, Poland. Allied military vehicles and personnel trample and walk on Nazi flags and posters in Germany. A pile of Nazi flags burning in the street, as men, women and children walk past. German prisoners of war assembled in a large outdoor enclosure, and moving out in a line. German soldiers surrendering, with white flags displayed. American soldiers look at open mass graves of persons shot dead by Nazis. Emaciated boy children inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp stand behind barbed wire fence around the time of its liberation. The prior scenes are contrasted with ordinary life in the United States. A boy retrieves a ball from a pond, and throws it. Children play on see saws at a playground. A baby take first few faltering steps. A girl hangs from monkey bar. A man and two women share a newspaper article.
Scene is in the Luitpoldhalle meeting hall at the Nazi party Congress Grounds (Reichsparteitagsgelände) in Nuremberg Germany, during the 6th Party Congress of 1934. Rudolf Hess strides to the podium and simply says "The leader speaks," whereupon the assembly cheers enthusiastically, as Adolf Hitler stands quietly at the podium, until the cheering subsides. He then begins his speech noting that the 6th Party Congess is ending. As he continues to speak about the significance of the National Socialist Party, extoling its virtues and importance, the camera shows closeups of party leaders listening, including: Rudolf Hess; Joseph Goebbels; Hermann Goering; Heinrich Himmler; Baldur von Schirach, and others. As Hitler reminisces about the days when it was hard to be a National Socialist, the assembly responds with cheers of recognition. Thereafter, the film shifts back and forth between Hitler at the podium, and scenes of the audience responding, and of individuals listening intently. Glimpse of Goering standing and looking about, as Hess takes the podium in the noisy wake of Hitler's speech. Hitler giving arm-bent Nazi half salute. As enthusiastic cheering continues, Hess turns again and salutes Hitler. But it is difficult to quiet the crowd. Finally, Hess shouts that the "The Party is Hitler's but Germany is Hitler's and Hitler is Germany's (Die Partei ist Hitler, aber Deutschland ist Hitler und Hitler ist Deutschland). Then he turns and leads a round of "Sieg Heils" for Hitler. Then the entire assembly begins to sing the Nazi Party anthem (Horst-Wessel lied), in a slow deliberate tempo, as light fills the stage area of the hall. Camera focuses on a giant swastika, zooms in, and fades to marching troops.
Portion of the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Flashback scenes to a variety of Nazi crimes against humanity during World War II. Chief prosecutor from Russia, Roman A Rudenko, presents Counts 3 and 4 against the convicted Nazi criminals; charging commitment of war crimes in Germany and countries which Germany occupied; including abuse, starvation, and execution of prisoners of war. Faces of convicts in the courtroom are shown, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel. Flashback scenes shows German soldiers serving on screening teams, searching and separating eastern front prisoners of war. Group of Russian soldier prisoners being force run marched, following behind a German tank beside a prison camp. Aerial view through German bomber window of large numbers of Russian soldier prisoners assembled. Ground level views of overcrowded prison grounds filled with prisoners. German General Erwin von Lahousen on the witness stand during Nuremberg trials giving testimony about his attendance at conferences where crimes against populations were plotted. View of Wilhelm Canaris, Goering and Hitler in meeting room in discussion with German officers. Next scene shows a farmhouse and farm buildings. A car is parked beside a farm building with metal pipes extending from the automobile exhaust system, through the exterior wall of the farm building (to gas occupants with carbon monoxide). Starved, emaciated Polish prisoners from Nazi concentration camps arrive riding on the back of a horse cart. German staff in white coats made to look like medical staff assist naked and emaciated men and child prisoners climbing down from the horse cart. They put robes over some holocaust victims. They lead them to the door of the farm building. Next scene shows atrocity evidence as the car is seen running poison gas into the building. Scene of homes in a village burning in flames as German soldiers watch.
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