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.
German civilians around a bomb damaged building in Nuremberg, Germany during World War II. German civilians gather fire wood from bomb damaged buildings. Civilians line up with buckets as they wait to get water. Civilians walk with buckets of water. Bomb damaged building at the back.
U.S. Red Cross Clubmobile at the Hanover Concentration Camp in Hanover, Germany during World War II. Atrocity victims and survivors walk behind barbed wire fences at the camp. Survivors are provided with food. The survivors covered with blankets sleep. Men carry and bury a dead body. An AMG (Allied Military Government) sergeant checks a list of inmates.
German civilians at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany immediately after World War II. German citizens from the neighboring town of Weimar walk along the road to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. They are shown lampshades made of human heads and human skin parchment made for painting pictures at the camp. Allied soldiers stand around. German citizens see an Allied soldier with a trenchfoot injury. They look at a truck loaded with emaciated bodies.
Dead bodies of prisoners at the Nazi Dachau Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany immediately after the conclusion of World War II in Europe. Local town people view the piles of emaciated dead bodies stacked inside a building. Women cry and walk out of the building after viewing heaps of dead bodies of atrocity victims. A tour of a gas chamber shows an Allied soldier entering a shower bath area. Dummy shower heads, intake and outlet pipes, inflow and outtake gas valves in the gas chamber. Bodies in a crematory after removal from the gas chamber. Survivors of the Dachau camp.
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