Scenes at liberated concentration camps near end of World War 2 in Europe. A man opens crematory ovens at Buchenwald concentration camp. Heaps of bones and ashes. Sign of oven manufacturer: J A Topf and Sons, Erfurt, Germany. Men empty an oven of burned bones. View of instruments of torture in prison at Lublin, Poland (possibly part of Majdanek Concentration Camp in Lubin?) Victims of torture by Nazi German captors. Dead bodies of victims killed near fence at "schlachthaus" (slaughter house) in Leipzig Germany. Women look through fence at the dead. Bodies of victims who died attempting to flee burning barn. Local German citizens walk amongst the dead lying in concentration buildings and yards. German citizens are pressed into service loading the bodies of the dead on litters and into trucks. Concentration camp survivors are seen being given food and assistance. Two emaciated young victim survivors (they appear to be teenage boys) share a bowl of soup. German soldiers held as prisoners of war. German tribunal considers charges against Nazis. German citizens removing Nazi victims from mass grave. Bodies of the dead laid out on hillside. German citizens visit Buchenwald and see display of Nazi art and keepsakes created from human skin and bodies of victims.
German soldiers return to Germany following the end of World War 2 in Europe, and German civilians are expelled from Czechoslovakia. German soldiers are seen withdrawing from the area of the Czech-German border in the vicinity of Oelsnitz, Czechoslovakia and Pilsen, Germany. German soldiers, many of whom are very young, march down street. Soldiers move on bicycles, horse drawn carts and trucks on village street. Buildings in the background with advertisement in German.. Men ride in an automobile. View of German civilian women and children during forced expulsion of German civilians from the area. The German cilvians rest temporarily in a field. A German soldier shaves in the field. German civilians get into an army truck. Trees in the background. German truck convoy passes through town. Civilians on either side of street wave. They rest temporarily in a field. A soldier shaves in the field. Civilians get into an army truck. Trees in the background. German truck convoy passes through town. Civilians on either side of street wave.
Various views of Lieutenant colonel Creighton Abrams' 4th Armored Division M4A3E8 Sherman medium tank, "Thunderbolt VII," in Germany, near the end of World War 2, in Europe. Head-on view of the tank from roadbed, as it proceeds over the camera position. Several other views of the tank on dirt roads in Germany. An M5A1 light tank leads Abrams' tank in the last scene.
USAF (United States Air Force) trucks outside the Rhein-Main Base Operations building of the air base. Interior of the Rhein-Main Air Base, an U.S. Air Base near the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Several USAF airplanes are parked at base. Trucks lined in an order, a truck carrying wheat floor bags in moving towards airplane. Wheat bakery floor bags from Kansas City are loaded in the C-54 Skymaster of USAF, during Berlin Airlift period.
A scoop crane scooping grains from reserve and putting it into a big machine. Grains are packed in clothe bags. Cloth bags are transported in barges. Bags then carried in trucks to Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. Trucks are lined up and several USAF (United States Air Force) planes in background. Bags are unloaded from trucks to plane during Berlin Airlift period.
Interior of Rhein-Main air base in Frankfurt, Germany. Several C-54s parked at the base. Views of air planes from a building near-by. C-54 Skymaster, a USAF (United States Air Force) transport aircraft in flight. Truck getting unloaded near planes for Berlin Airlift operations during Berlin Blockade.
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