The time is at end of World War 2. Slate describes this film as the Orphanage at Dachau. A bucolic scene shows horse-drawn wagon moving along country road, with twin spires of a church, visible in the background. Camera zooms in on church spires and roof, and then to a sign near the door reading,"DP Childrens Center, UNRRA, Team 182." (DP means Displaced Persons, UNRRA stands for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.) At the entrance, itself, a sign reads:"Ausländer Kinderstation, UNRRA, Ausschuss 182 (Foreign children's ward, UNRRA, committee 182). Children run down the stairs of the building and are seen, next, outdoors in a grassy churchyard of the camp, where they form a circle, hold hands, and dance and sing. Scene shifts to indoors in a high-ceilinged room filled with daylight from several large windows where the children sit for a nourishing mid-day meal. Men in military-like uniforms pass trays of food to children standing in line. A similarly-dressed woman helps several very small children down the stairs. A line of babies sit at a long table and are fed by a Nun in habit. Closeups of the babies trying to feed themselves. Next scene shows a Nun washing the babies, in a nursery, with cribs in the background. View of many pre-school age babies seated on the floor playing together with toys. Outside, in the grounds, school age boys play football (soccer), while schoolmates watch from the sidelines and cheer.
U.S. soldiers are seen walking into a village already occupied by U.S. infantrymen, who are lined up carrying their individual mess gear as they move in an outdoor chow line. A little smoke can be seen from an outdoor mess stove (unseen). A sign identifies the town as: "Bitschhofen, Kreis Hagenau." The arriving U.S. troops continue, walking through, and out of the town, along a wet muddy road. Other soldiers, in the town, bring their food back from their mess kitchen. The troops passing through, slog in the mud.
U.S. soldiers raid houses in Munich in search of suspects during World War II. Line of tanks, jeeps, and half tracks along roads and streets of Munich on swoop raid. Army vehicles move through bombed out Munich. Infantrymen run along street of Munich. Soldiers raid house for suspected under grounders. Soldiers search a house. A man being arrested. Suspect enters a Command Post. Officer questions the suspect. Suspected homes being raided by soldiers, arrests are made and suspects being brought in for questioning. Suspects leave the Command Post afterwards.
Period following German elections in March,1933. Newspapers on a billboard with "Adolf Hitler" boldly displayed in print. German SA (Stormtroopers) Headquarters with sign reading: "S.A.Heim, Sturm 16L." Torchlight parade of German SA (Stormtroopers) along a street. Nazi officials stand around. House of labor union with SA troops manning a machine gun in front. Copy of Sunday Morning Post of March 12, 1933. Several Storm troopers marching along the street. SS troopers in black uniforms, mingling with SA (storm troopers) in brown shirts.
U.S. ski patrol in Hurtgen Forest, Vossenack during World War II. Three-men patrol wear snow capes on skis move through snow-covered forest. Interiors show church steeple as observation post. Soldiers use BC scope and telephone. Patrol dons skis and snow capes. Soldiers on skis move through forest.
View of the "Olympic Village" during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Athletes, in civilian clothes, walk about in the garden walkways of the village, where they are housed. A small banner, labeled USA, hangs from one apartment balcony. Another,larger banner, reads: "U.S.A. Cycling. Track-Road Olympic Team. Its great to be part of the best. Go Harder."The banner is topped with 4 small American flags.
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