Nazi brownshirts riding on a truck yelling anti-Jewish propaganda in streets of Germany during anti-Semitic campaign of 1933. Signs on Jewish-owned businesses encouraging boycott of those businesses. Brownshirt drawing sign on storefront glass of a shop. Sign with skull and slogan "Achtung Juden" posted on front door of Cafe Unter den Linden. Crowd of German citizens interacting with brownshirts, mostly in support, but one brief scene shows a citizen arguing with a brownshirt posted in front of a Jewish-owned shop. Nazis with swastika armbands leading anti-Jewish chants, while some citizens raise their hands in Nazi salutes. Next scene deals with the Nuremberg Laws including the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. It shows Herman Goering addressing government officials at the seventh Nazi party congress in September 1935, and reading parts of the so-called blood purity laws and standards. Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler are seated in the foreground. Goering reads the proclamation that German citizens are only those of German or related blood, willing to serve the Reich and German people. Goering then reads that marriages between Jews and citizens of German or related blood are prohibited. Scene from courtroom during 1946 Nuremberg trials. Next scene shows Jewish citizens being forcefully and brutally dragged, beaten, and evicted from their homes by Nazis. Some have been stripped of their clothing. A woman is dragged by her hair. A man is beaten. Scenes of German citizens and possibly Gestapo beating and harassing Jewish people in the streets. Clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. Close-up of hand turning device to generate explosive charge. Large explosion in Warsaw Ghetto. Views of buildings burning in the Warsaw Ghetto. People carrying bodies on stretchers. A person being dragged by Nazi soldiers out of a sewer holes where they had been hiding. Nazi German tanks and armor rolling through the ghetto, and artillery being fired at a building. Waffen SS, gestapo police, and Wehrmacht participating in brutality. Jewish man being hit and dragged across street.
During Nuremberg trial Nazi leader Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (sometimes spelled Höß or Hoess or Hess), the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, describes the final extermination of Jews at concentration camps in Germany. Scenes of inmates and slave laborers filing past prison wire in a prison yard, wearing prison uniforms. Young children prisoners filing past and some showing tattoos on their arms. Scenes of gas chambers, piles of dead bodies, piles of gold teeth extracted from bodies, scenes of emaciated atrocity victims barely alive, and dead bodies removed from concentration camps and buried in mass burial trenches by German citizens and POW soldiers after liberation of the camp in World War 2.
During Nuremberg trial Nazi leaders make final statements in Nuremberg, Germany. Leaders like Hjamlar Schacht, Albert Speer, Keitel, Hans Frank, Hans Fritzsche make final statements. Defense and prosecution sum up the arguments in the end.
During Nuremberg trial Chief Prosecutors from different countries make final summations against various Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief Prosecutors Robert Jackson, Hartley Shawcross, Lieutenant General Rudenko and Francis de Menthon present final summations. Nazi leaders Hermann Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Hess, Frank, Frick, Neurath and Raeder. Judges Geoffery Lawrence, Francis Biddle, Major General Niokitchenko and Henri Donnedieu de Vabres discuss the final verdict in a room.
Film starts showing animated map of American forces driving East from France and British forces.including the 53rd Infantry Division, from Belgium toward the Rhein (Rhine) River in Germany. Allied infantry and armor gathering on a street in France. Closeups of some soldiers in berets mingling with American troops. Left shoulder of a soldier with Engineers patch. Another with white cross in white circle. American troops entering Bad Godesburg, where many white flags are displayed. An M4A3 Sherman tank moves along a street. "Adolf Schmitz" written on building in background U.S. infantry and armor moving through the town cautiously subject to lingering sniper fire. Views of signs identifying shops and commercial establishments in the town. U.S. soldiers silhouetted looking out of an upper story of a building where they are firing a machine gun towards a sniper's nest. German soldier surrendering and being searched briefly. A wounded person being carried on a litter by two civilian men, accompanied by a woman wearing a Red Cross armband. Scene shifts to road in countryside, clogged with long line of German prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard. Closeups of some of the prisoners and guards. Views of the Rhein river with many bridges destroyed by retreating German forces. Closeup of an American tank crew in their M4A3 Sherman tank. The Bridge at Remagen, with a sign on it reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy of the 9th ARMD Div." American soldiers guarding the bridge against air attack man an M33 twin mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun. Another gun crew firing an M45 quad mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun at attacking German aircraft attempting to destroy the Remagen bridge. Another antiaircraft gun defending the bridge. View from some distance of bomb bursting near the bridge, raising a geyser of water. Back at the bridge, itself, American infantry and vehicles continue to pour across it. Closeups of some and of soldiers in the vehicles. An M4A3 Sherman tank completing the crossing and moving on the German side of the river. Infantry walking along the roadside.
Decoration of U.S. army officers in Berchtesgaden, Germany, at the former Reichskanzlei in Staggass, a week after the end of World War II in Europe. U.S. Major General Maxwell D. Taylor pins DSC (Distinguished Service Cross), Legion of Merit, and Silver Stars on U.S. officers. U.S. soldiers stand in a formation on lawn. Field Marshal Keitel's house and "Sleeping Witch" mountain in the background. Infantry march along a road. Brigadier General Gerald J. Higgins being awarded the Silver Star and Colonel William Gilmore receives promotion to Brigadier General.
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