Buildings of French Government in Baden-Baden, Germany. The building of the military government of Sarre. Vehicles and people move on a road in front of the building. A sign:'Gouvernement Militaire de la Sarre'. People at the entrance of the building. Views of the road in front of the building. General Emile Liffon, who is in charge of the civilian administration of the French Zone, in his office. He talks over a phone and works. The flag of France on a building. Sign " Gouvernement Militaire Rhenanie Hesse Nassau" on the building.
French children from Marseilles, France are quartered at a hotel in Baden-Baden, Germany. Exterior of the hotel where the children from Marseilles are quartered. The children leave the hotel. A sign on the hotel reads as 'Colonie des enfants de Marseille'. Children play on lawns. The hotel in the background. An outdoor class: the children at desks. A teacher teaches them. The children learn. The children walk on a road past road markers and signs.
A British military area in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. A main street with British military guards at a barrier enclosing a headquarters and checking up traffic. Various views including name "Bad Oeynhausen" in the background. A British military guard checking papers of entrants. A notice reads "Fraternization Forbidden in this area". Building of "Restaurant zum Lindenhof" in background. German people get off a rail tram. A signs shows directions to "Bad Oeynhausen" and to "Herford".
On General Erich Friedrich Ludendorff's 70th Birthday, he is honored by the German Army. German Defense Minister, Colonel-General Werner von Blomberg and General Werner von Fritsch, convey the best wishes of the German Army. General Ludendorff, accompanied by other officials, walks along a field. German officer Franz Soldte, German Prince William II, and Generals Werner von Blomberg and Werner von Fritsch attend the event. A band plays music. Troops parade along a street. Formations of biwing aircraft fly overhead. Ludendorff speaks to the gathering.
The Feldherrnhalle (Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München, Germany) in Munich, Germany shortly after end of World War II in Europe. Statues of emperors and warriors. White lettering in German, on side of the building saying 'Concentration Camp Dachau - Belsen - Buchenwald. I am ashamed that I am a German.' Nazi swastika symbol and a statue in front of a building destroyed by Allied bombers. Adolf Hitler's original Brown House (NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1, 80333 München, Germany) in ruins from bombing of the Allied bombers. Damage done nearby Odeonsplatz (Odeonspl. 1, 80539 München, Germany). Women on bicycles pass by the Feldherrnhalle.
Filmed shortly before the Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. A view of the devastated city of Berlin shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe. Aerial views of bomb damaged Berlin and point of view shots from a moving car passing destruction, rubble, and skeletons of buildings from bomb damage. U.S. President Harry Truman surveying the damage from an open car, and view of his car approaching the Brandenburg Gate and driving on the Unter den Linden. Three flag towers each decorated at the base with an image of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. U.S. President Harry S. Truman is riding through Berlin with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov. Flashback shows German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler parading in Berlin. People crowd on either side of a street to cheer. Close up back and side profile view of Hitler as he stands in a moving car waving to the crowd. Hitler speaking at a Nazi Rally, forcefully and animated, about Germany wiping out inferior races, and decrying America's society of mixed people, saying that it has a ridiculous notion of equality and freedom that cannot stand up against Germany. The German people in the hall applaud. Truman speaks into a microphone in Germany after the war. U.S. delegates stand in the background. A radio tower. A U.S. military serviceman operating controls for the radio broadcast. People in the U.S. listen to President Truman speaking from a Berlin Radio Station. A hand on a typewriter. People of the United States in groups listening to radio: Men gathered at a city store listening to the radio speech; a woman typist listening to the radio beside her typewriter; men in a rural general store gathered around a radio near a wood stove; farmers listening to a radio; office workers gathered around a radio; a family in a living room listens to the radio; group of U.S. Army soldiers gathered to listen to the radio . Truman speaking on the grounds of the United States Group Control Council Headquarters in Berlin. He is in a courtyard that had been the home of the German Air Defense for Berlin. An honor guard from Company 'E' of the 41st Infantry is present, along with Secretary Stimpson, Assistant Secretary McCloy, and Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Clay, and Bradley. Soldiers stand in formation in the background. He speaks about peace in the world during the ceremony raising the United States flag over the U.S. controlled area of Berlin. His words included the statement, "Let's not forget that we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind. We're not fighting for conquest."
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