U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Hamburg, Germany during World War II. View of Heligoland island and its coastline. The B-17s in flight. Aerial views of target island. On Hamburg: Thick smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks and a refinery on fire. Coastal installations on islands. Smoke and fire from a coastal oil depot.
The Malmedy War Crimes Trials in Dachau, Germany. The defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars". The prosecutor quotes in part German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard the Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "the Battle of the Bulge". He goes on to tell how "German soldiers sang the sword and blood songs thus releasing them from any regulations as to the treatment of prisoners".
Trade unions in a building in Hamburg, Germany. At an outdoor ceremony Colonel Armetage, British Military Government, restores free trade unions and union buildings for the people of Hamburg. Paul Bebert, formerly a prisoner in a World War 2 Nazi concentration camp, speaks to a crowd and then mounts a scaffold and with a hammer and a chisel destroys a swastika on the facade of a building.
Traditional Rose Monday festival in Cologne, Germany. Large crowds gather during the prosperity pageant. Troops march during the festival. Humorous and grotesque masquerades and decorated floats in the Rose Monday festival.
Calisthenics for cooks in Berlin, Germany. Cooks climb up stairs and walk down. The cooks practice performing calisthenics. A cook stands in front of others and teaches them. The cooks exercise with kitchen utensils.
A crowd of many thousands of Germans, including Communists and National Socialists (Nazis) demonstrating against one another, on May 1st, 1932, in the Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany. Police have difficulty keeping the groups from rioting. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler making an impassioned speech in the tumult. Various views of the densely packed crowd. Scene shifts abruptly to a Nazi rally at Zeppeiin Field in Nuremberg, where thousands of Nazi SA Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) render Nazi salutes. Another shift of scene shows a German Youth rally for workers and the Führer being held in a city square.
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