Combat footage filmed during the Soviet invasion and Battle of Berlin, Germany during World War 2. Smoke rises from damaged bridges and railroad lines. Ruined buildings of Berlin in aftermath of Soviet air and ground attacks. Piles of captured German weapons. German police officers and soldiers being taken as prisoners of war. Surrendering German troops march along a street. Grafitti on building wall says "Surrender - No." White surrender flags hang from windows and balconies of buildings. (These are contrasted by edited insert of German swastika flags covering the facades of buildings in the past.) German General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the Berlin Defense Area leads other Gernan officers from a bunker in the city, following their surrender to the Soviets on May 2, 1945. Large number of surrendering German soldiers marching, while General Weidling and other Berlin Defense Area officers quietly watch as their troops march past, as prisoners.
Hanging of Nazi war criminals in Bruchal, Germany who was found guilty at U.S. 7th Army court for World War II crimes. Nazi prisoner approaches scaffold guarded by American MPs (Military Police). His hands are tied before execution.
The Doctors' Trial of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. The judges file in and take their seats. Defendants, one by one, answer when their names are called. Defendants include Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schröder, Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfram Sievers, Gerhard Rose, Siegfried Ruff, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Viktor Brack, Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Georg August Weltz, Konrad Schäfer, Waldemar Hoven, Wilhelm Beiglböck, Adolf Pokorny, Herta Oberheuser, Fritz Fischer.
The Doctors' Trial of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. Defendants, one by one, answer when their names are called. Defendants include Karl Brandt, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schröder, Herta Oberheuser, and Fritz Fischer. All plead not guilty.
The Doctors' Trial of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. U.S. General Telford Taylor speaks before microphone about Jewish and Gypsy victims dying under torture and experimentation after being cruelly mistreated and murdered by Nazi German doctors. General Taylor further says these savage crimes by medical physicians and scientists cannot go unpunished.
Anti-German Partisan resistance in Nazi occupied areas of Yugoslavia during World War II. Partisans martial their forces in the wooded hills. Partisans fire guns at Italians in a ravine. Dead Italian soldiers. An Axis convoy of trucks under attack by partisans in hills above. Axis troops patrol in a Yugoslav village backyard. A poster offering an award for capture of Partisan leader. Pictures show hanging of Yugoslav Partisans and their execution by Nazi German firing squads. Yugoslav Partisans receive arms on a mountainside. Contingent of uniformed Partisans (including several women) march with arms. Partisans setting up explosives. Detonated explosives. Partisans charge from hilltops. Dead German soldiers. Partisans returning to their villages from the hills. More war dead. Uniformed partisans march into a village. Partisans firing field artillery at German positions. Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Ante Pavelic, head of Croatia. Germans launch an offensive against partisans, whose families flee further into the mountainous and forested regions of the country.
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