General Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley and General Patton visit the Ohdruf concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Generals and soldiers inspect the whipping rack for the prisoners. Talk to survivor inmates of the camp. Generals see the stack of starved, leaned and naked dead bodies of the prisoners brutally murdered by the Nazis. The dead bodies with gun shots in head, eyes and neck. Survivors demonstrate atrocities done to them by the Nazis. Courtyard of the camp covered by dead bodies of the inmates. Burnt bodies of inmates at a crematory on railway tracks. Members of the Nazi party on a truck, brought by force to visit the camp by Allies. A German Major is also among the visitors. Nazis, along with Americans visit the dead bodies, survivors, tortured and piles of dead bodies. The Nazis unmoved deny the knowledge of any such concentration camp by Nazi party. Arrested guards of the camp. At crematory on railway track list of tortures to the prisoners read. The Nazis show no emotion or pain.
British Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber aircraft drop bombs over German targets during World War II. Bombs impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise up. United States Army Air Force 8th and 15th Air Force using B-17 bombers attack the industrial town of Pforzeheim at night. British Lancaster bomber aircraft also assist the American forces, destroying the city completely.
Revealing of Nazi atrocities at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, soon after its liberation in World War II. Soldiers and civilians standing on the field. They take out corpses different areas. Mutilated corpses on the field. Soldiers and civilians discuss amongst themselves. Bayonet and bullet wounds in the chest of the bodies of victims.
Scenes at end of World War II in Europe. Aerial view of the city of Rogensburg with its rivers. A harbor and a dockyard in the city. Bomb damaged buildings.
Views of the Schauspielhaus on the Maximilianstrasse in Munich, where the The Munich Kammerspiele (Münchner Kammerspiele) theater company is presenting a play. People entering the building. Inside,a U.S. Army Lieutenant shakes hands with the theater company director, Erich Engel, and presents him with a document, as some cast members and theater patrons watch. Closeup of Engel. Local officials converse at front of theater. American military personnel are among the audience seen in background. Scenes shift to cast members getting made up for their roles in Shakespeare's Macbeth. A man being attended by a makeup artist. A woman at her dressing table. Makeup being applied to another man. Backstage, a manager rings a warning bell for the cast and members hurry to take their positions onstage. The stage manager strikes a gong and men raise the curtain. The cast onstage performing.
At the end of World War 2, in a military-scientific endeavor called Operation Backfire, German rocket troops, under British control, built and test-fired three V-2 missiles at the former German naval station in Altenwalde, a district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony near the North Sea.. A V-2 rocket is seen igniting on its launch pad, rising into the air, and entering the stratosphere at a speed of 5 thousand kilometers per hour. Views of the rocket in flight. Finally, as the experiment ends, the V-2 shuts down and falls to the earth. (This footage is rare as it contains extra scenes not found in the official Operation Backfire Report film summary. It is also formatted for post-war German audiences.)
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