Men of 121st Infantry (Guerrilla) Regiment of the Philippine Army awarded medals at Luna in North Luzon Philippines, a month after World War 2. Filipino women seated in spectator stands fanning themselves as they watch a military award ceremony for their relatives and friends, who served with the Philippine 121st Infantry (Guerrilla) Regiment during World War II. A Filipino soldier, on crutches (missing his left leg) with Purple Heart medal pinned to his uniform blouse. Colonel Russell W. Volckmann, commander of United States Armed Forced in the Philippines, North Luzon (USAFIP-NL), is seen shaking hands with and presenting Purple Heart medals to other Filipino soldiers as they stand in a line, most of them on crutches. Filipino soldiers parade in honor of the medal recipients.
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of Nazi atrocities in World War 2, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary concentration camps in Czechoslovakia. German prisoners of war work in graves with shovels exhuming bodies of Czech patriots who were concentration camp victims. Dead bodies lifted on the litter by prisoners. Bodies taken for identification. Dead bodies kept on wooden platforms in a yard for doctors' identification.
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of World War II Nazi German atrocities, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary prison camps in Czechoslovakia. Officers of Military Police, prisoners of war and other enlisted men take the bodies of the concentration camp victims out of mass graves for their identification. Piles of dead bodies taken out of the mass graves. Prisoners take out corpses, doctor doing identification tests in dead body. Prisoners take bodies in coffins for burial. Number of coffins for reburial at a ceremony.
The Nuremberg Trials for World War II war crimes, at Nuremberg in Germany. Judge Musmanno questions the defendants at the court. The defendants called one after the other answer the questions of the judge and prosecutors at the court. The defendants continue pleading 'not guilty' at the court. The judge recesses the court.
Clip opens with very brief image of buildings at Mauthausen concentration camp during World War 2. Next, scene changes to Lambach, Austria, on the banks of the River Traun, on a large open field in which German prisoners of war (POW) are seen camping and cooking food over open fires. They are German soldiers captured in the Austrian Alps by U.S. Army infantry soldiers of the 80th Division, 3rd U.S. Army, at the time the unconditional surrender was signed. The weather is warm and many are lightly dressed. Some men are lined up behind a truck carrying a tank of fresh water. A section of the camp has been cleared as a football (Soccer) pitch and men appear to be trying to organize a game. Scene shifts to a far end of the encampment, bounded by many trees. Everyone at the camp seems occupied in adjusting their tents and other matters related to their shelters. More views of men at the football pitch. Closeup of a man with stove and cooking gear under an unusual shelter. Closeup of a man eating soup as a group of young soldiers stand behind him. Closeup of three very young German soldiers, two of who are wearing German uniform caps. Closeup of an older man smoking a pipe. Another young man wearing a German soldier's cap.
British and Australian prisoners of war line up on both the sides of a road to welcome a senior officer at a Japanese prison camp in World War II. Prisoners stand at attention as the motorcade passes through. The motorcade reaches a prison compound where a Japanese prison officer receives and greets the inspecting officer. Prisoners lined up outside the building. A photographer clicks pictures of the event.
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