Bundeswehr military exercise near Fulda, Germany. Camouflaged trucks loaded with soldiers move over cobblestone streets. Buildings on either side of the streets. German officers discuss the exercise with civilian officials. M-41 tanks loaded with soldiers advance along a road. A camouflaged tank moves through woods. Soldiers haul artillery. They load and fire artillery at edge of woods. Civilian officials observe from position in background. German soldier fires a mortar. German infantry take up positions on a grassy bluff. One fires a machine gun. No national markings of any kind appear on the weapons or equipment.
German civilians, soldiers and Allied prisoners coming into U.S. lines in Grimma, Germany towards the end of World War 2. Large groups of German civilians, soldiers, and a few released Allied prisoners of war, cross a damaged bridge over the Mulde River and come into the U.S. lines.
U.S. 1st Army, 23rd Regiment, 2nd Division soldiers attack on Mechernich, Germany during World War 2. U.S. soldiers move along street. Civilians watch. Soldiers break down door of house and enter. Soldier directs civilians and German officers by wave of hand. Woman unlocks door of house and soldiers enter. German Army prisoners, including one who is a young boy soldier, being searched by soldiers. U.S. officer speaks with civilian.
U.S. 1st Army, 23rd Regiment, 2nd Division soldiers attack on Mechernich, Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers crossing field and entering Mechernich. Soldiers enter houses. Soldiers break window and climb into house. U.S. officers including Brigadier General Truman E Boudinot, Major General Maurice Rose and Brigadier General Doyle Hickey on the steps of cathedral in Cologne during its capture by U.S. 1st Army. Ruined buildings in surrounding area.
Views of the British battleship Royal Oak, in Scapa Flow, Scotland, and underway at sea. . The German submarine, U-47, commanded by Captain Gunter Prien, underway and saluting as they are greeted as they return to base at Kiel, Germany, on October 23, 1939, after successfully penetrating Scapa Flow and torpedoing the British battleship, Royal Oak (and also, the British battle cruiser, Repulse, they believed), on October 14, 1939.
The Doctors' Trial of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. The judges file in and take their seats. Defendants, one by one, answer when their names are called. Defendants include Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schröder, Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfram Sievers, Gerhard Rose, Siegfried Ruff, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Viktor Brack, Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Georg August Weltz, Konrad Schäfer, Waldemar Hoven, Wilhelm Beiglböck, Adolf Pokorny, Herta Oberheuser, Fritz Fischer.
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