White flags at the windows in Munich, Germany, at end of World War 2. Bomb damaged room of Adolf Hitler's Berghof residence and retreat at Berchtesgaden (sometimes mistaken for the Eagle's Nest which was his mountain top retreat known as Kehlsteinhaus). Snow on the mountains, seen through main window of Adolf Hitler's Berghof residence. Bomb damaged room. Guard outside the entrance, seen through underground passage. A Dodge Command car leaves main Berghof gate house. Guard salutes.
At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.
U.S. soldiers climb through a hole blown through the brick wall of a bar-locked room at Merkers Mines in Germany near end of World War II. Bags of Nazi German gold, bank notes, and treasured paintings and stolen art work found inside the mine.
U.S. 18th Field Artillery units position 155's (artillery guns) near Viffort in France during World War I. Artillery supplies arrive at Courboin. Terrain near Conde-en-Brie. 111th Infantry troops man trenches at Viffort. The 150th Field Artillery bombards Suippes.-Thierry.
Wreckage of a crashed German plane at a field in France during World War I. Soldiers and people gather at the crash site. The captured German pilot surrounded.
American 167th and 168th Infantry units rest near Souain during World War I. Shows rubble and captured artillery. Prisoners are being questioned.
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