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.
Adolf Hitler stands on the platform of the Berchtesgaden railway station, with Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, and other high-ranking German military officers, awaiting the arrival of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Mussolini steps off the train and is warmly greeted by Hitler. Mussolini also greets some of the officers accompanying Hitler. Hitler and Mussolini enter a building and sit together at a round table to confer.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his friends and associates at Hitler's residence Berghof in Berchtesgaden. Hitler talks to a child on the terrace of Berghof. Hitler's companion Eva Braun photographs them. Hitler escorts the child inside. Hilter's physician Karl Brandt plays with a small girl on terrace. Hitler shakes hands with a small girl. Eva Braun plays with a rabbit as she holds it in her arms. Hitler with another child, child holds a handbag. A Nazi officer gives another bag to the child. The child gives the bag to Hitler.
Slate refers to 50 thousand workers at Gera, Thuringia. View from a mercedes benz automobile in motorcade driving along streets of Gera. People line sidewalks. Crowd is assembled at Schutzenplatz. Hitler is surrounded by children giving him bouquets of flowers. He speaks from podium. Large phalanx of Sturmabteilung (SA) separates him from the audience. Next sequence shot from an airplane taking off. Hitler is seen on board the airplane, reading. Aerial views from the airplane flying over the German countryside.
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