Camera shows close up of two certificates of affidavit signed by Lieutenant Colonel George Stevens and Lieutenant Kellogg. The first affidavit by U.S. Army Signal Corps Colonel Stevens cites Stevens' work from 1 March 1945 to 8 May 1945 photographing concentration camps and prison camps liberated by Allied forces. It is read aloud by George Stevens (or by a narrator reading the text of the affadavit). The second affidavit, signed by U.S. Navy Lieutenant E.R. Kellogg, and witnessed by Captain John Ford, is also read aloud. It cites Kellogg's expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to 1941. He attests that he has thoroughly examined the concentration camp liberation films of the Army Signal Corps and found them to be unaltered, genuine, and true copies of the originals in the U.S. Army Signal Corps vaults. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and other parts of occupied Europe under Nazi control. (World War II period).
In spite of Non Aggression treaty with Denmark, signed by Germany, May 31, 1939, German ships carrying army troops dock in Copenhagen and offload troops, tanks and equipment in the midst of local citizens, as part of surprise invasion of Denmark, on April 9, 1940, in World War 2. Some local citizens running away from the dock area. View of German troops marching along a street in Copenhagen, as local people line the sidewalks, watching.
Max Schmeling arrives in New York, United States. World heavyweight boxing champion from Germany Max Schmeling with a dog in his arms. He smiles as he arrives in New York for a bout with Jack Sharkey. Schmeling aboard a ship.
Germany surrenders in Rheims, France during World War II. Nazi General Alfred Jodl arrives at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. General Jodl and others enter the building. U.S. General Walter B. Smith, Allied Chief of Staff and other officers at a desk. German General Jodl signs the surrender papers. General Smith also puts his signature on the papers. The surrender document with the signatures of the two Generals. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower smiles. He holds two pens in a V sign.
Congress meeting in Tirana, Albania during World War II. Members of the Nazi Germany controlled Congress enter the Royal Palace in Tirana for a meeting of the Congress. Priests seated at the meeting. Officials conduct the meeting. A priest with a rosary. An official speaks into a microphone.
German submarine U-234 following its surrencder and capture by the U.S. Forces in Portsmouth, New Hampshire following Germany's surrender in World War 2. The submarine crew members carry their gear onto a dock. German prisoners stand on the dock while American sailors guard them with rifles. A naval gun aboard a vessel. The crew members exit a U.S. Coast Guard cutter via a gangway. They walk along the dock at Portsmouth. German prisoners walk along the dock. The prisoners carry their gear as they come onto the dock.
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