Victory in Europe Day celebration in Wiesbaden, Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. Group of DPs (Displaced Persons) march away from the parade area. They hold Red flags,banners and portraits. Group of girls march. Buildings in the background. Girl carries a large Portrait of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin,Premier of the Soviet Union. Red star over a building. The parade progresses. United States Army Air Forces B-17s Flying Fortress bomber aircraft fly overhead.
Activities of United States Airmen in Germany after World War II. United States Airmen walking at Zeppelinfeld, Nuemberg, pause at colonnaded Zeppelintribüne grandstand. One throws stones at Swastika sign adorning the Zeppelintribüne. A truck passes by. on the memorial. The airmen climb stairs of the Zeppelintribüne grandstand. Heaps of bricks seen on the stairs. An American airman picks up a paper from stairs and reads it. The airmen look at the street from the grandstand. A truck parked on the street. The Zeppelinfeld seen in front of the Zeppelintribüne. Two airmen hold another airman and they pretend to throw him on the ground. The airmen sit and chat. A formation of American P-51 fighter aircraft flies overhead and planes start peeling off from the formation.
Street scenes of Frankfurt am Main during post World War II period of Allied occupation. (Opening slate refers to "food," because this was a period of severe food shortage throughout Germany.) German citizens are going about their daily activities. A truck and a car move along the street. Two military policemen walk together along a sidewalk. (They are Americans, because Frankfurt was in the U.S. zone of occupation.) Local people pay little attention to them and they, in turn, do not interact with the citizenry. Scene shifts completely to the City of Heidelberg,on the Neckar River, as viewed from left of the funicular station on the Kaiserstuhl. The camera zooms in slightly, to the area of the old Neckar bridge and the mountain slope leading to the Heidelberg Castle. It then pans from the left across the Kaiserstuhl slope, back again to the earlier views.
Three German soldiers, who were captured in American uniforms, spying behind the American lines, in the Fall of 1944, are executed by a firing squad. In a separate sequence, one of several German civilians is marched toward gallows at Bruchsal prison near Karlsruhe, Germany. They were condemned by a military tribunal for killing six United States Army Air Force aviators who were being held as prisoners of war after crash landing their airplane near the end of the war. A hangman makes preparations. The German criminals are hanged.
Judgments being announced regarding Nazi leaders tried for war crimes during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Justice Francis Biddle declares Joachim Von Ribbentrop guilty of all charges against him. Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess and Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders in prisoner's dock. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence speaks about defendant Ernst Kaltenbunner.
International Military Tribunal sits at the Palace of Justice to try World War II Nazi leaders for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief Prosecutor from United States, Robert Houghwout Jackson presents count 1 of indictment a conspiracy to commit war and crimes against peace and humanity. Nazi leaders at the prisoners dock. Bormann, Donitz, Frank, Frick, Fritzsche, Goring, Hess, Funk, Jodl, Katlenbrunner, Keitel, Lay, Neurath, Papen, Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Sauckel, Schacht, Seyss Inquart, Schirach, Speer and Streicher. Prosecution tables as Justice Jackson continues to speak.
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