Coffee and sandwiches are served to American Army troops in Trier, Germany by the Red Cross activists. U.S. soldiers approach Red Cross women at a table in the train station and receive food. Signs beside tracks name various German cities. Two different groups of women red cross workers pose for cameras in front of the "Army Red Cross Enlisted Mens Club." Inside, U.S. Army soldiers check in at the club desk, staffed by Red Cross women workers. U.S. troops gather around a piano played by a Red Cross worker and the group sings along with the piano. Soldiers dance with Red Cross women in a dance hall at the club.
Testing materials in high temperature conditions,Karlshagen, Germany. Briquettes of material in shallow container above high temperature heat source. The temperature seems to increase and cause test materials to move about in the container until they start melting. Electric conductor and thermocouple are seen amongst the test materials.
Peenemunde Rocket Development Center in Peenemünde, Usedom, Nazi Germany. A V-2 rocket erected on a platform at Prüfstand VII (Test Stand 7). The rocket is prepared to launch. Later soldiers and scientists examine explosion site in middle of P-7. They examine wreckage of rocket. Parts of rocket dispersed on ground. Smoke arises from ground. Personnel discussing failure of rocket. Prominent at end of clip is Wernher von Braun seen smoking and gesturing to cameraman. (World War II period).
An Eisfeld-Valier-Rak-1 sledge test driven in February, 1929 on the Eibsee lake, Bavaria, Germany. Men fit rocket boosters in the unmanned sledge. The sledge stands in snow. Spectators watch nearby. A man lights a fuse and steps away. Rockets ignite and propel the sledge across the lake surface with considerable fire and smoke. The experimenters run to the sledge and extinguish smoking rockets by throwing snow on them.
Prosecutor Thomas Dodd addresses the Nuremberg Trials courtroom regarding a song allegedly published by Baldur Von Schirach for the Hitler Youth in Nuremberg, Germany. Mr Dodd reads from a document and questions Von Schirach about anti-religious, anti-clergy, anti-church songs published for Hitler Youth before and during World War 2. Mr Dodd presents the diary of Minister of Justice to Von Schirach. Dr Fritz Sauter and an unidentified U.S. officer give the diary to Von Schirach after the latter testified. Dr Sauter examines his client Von Schirach.
During Nuremberg Trials, United States Chief Prosecutor Robert H Jackson delivers a speech concerning the prosecution's case against certain organizations in the Nazi government in Nuremberg, Germany. Quoting the prosecutor, 'The work of these organizations was to incite a mob spirit in the German people.' Mr Jackson states that the SS killed five million Jews unmercifully and with malice. 'These crimes' he says 'with which we deal, are unprecedented; not only because of the large number of organizations which carried them out so methodically, but because of the large number of people who united their efforts to perpetrate them.'
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