Fighter aircraft of the United States Air Force at a base in Germany after World War II. Crew chief checks fuse of an airplane with an indicator instrument. He uses air hose to clean engine of a P-47 Thunderbolt. He sprays the engine standing right on its top.
British Members of Parliament (MP) visit sites of German atrocities including Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen after the end of World War II. The Members of Parliament at a concentration camp witness piles of dead bodies of German prisoners, a whipping block, the crematory ovens. The MPs also visit the Belsen camp of political prisoners. Starving and dead prisoners at the camp. Ground near the camp covered with dead bodies. A mass grave with piles of dead bodies. Dead bodies of prisoners burnt, shot, fired, and trapped in barbwires. Scenes of Chief Warden and commander Josef Kramer, Gestapo guards, and women guards of the Belsen camp arrested. Security guards of the camp arrested. Escaped prisoners of a Stalig near Leipzig guide the MPs towards more jails and dead bodies killed when trying to escape the burning building. Dead bodies of Germans in Leipzig who committed suicide by cyanide poisoning before being captured, including Deputy Mayor and Municipal Treasurer Dr. jur. Ernst Kurt Lisso, at his desk, his wife Renate Stephanie, in chair, and their daughter Regina Lisso, all in the Leipzig New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus Neues Rathaus Martin-Luther-Ring 4, 04109 Leipzig, Germany). Body of Volksarmee General, who also died by suicide.
Relentless bombing of Germany by Allied Forces in World War 2. Bombing on important roads and buildings in German cities by the bombers of the United States Army Air Force. B-17 bombers of the 306th Bomb Group,out of Thurleigh, England (Triangle H tail code) seen in formation. They drop bombs from high altitude on a German city. Black flak clouds and contrails are seen. Immense explosions and destruction on ground from saturation bombing. Serial blasts at a railway marshaling yard, on a road. Bombs gliding towards target leaving a smoke trail behind. Buildings bombed by Allied bombers.
Low altitude aerial views of devastated industrial plants and factory buildings inside Germany at the end of World War 2 in Europe. Closeups of the destruction photographed from on the ground and inside the remains of German factories. Views of destruction in various places. Destroyed commercial buildings and apartment houses inside German city. A destroyed railroad train station. Aerial views showing numerous whole blocks completely flattened in German industrial area. Destroyed petroleum facilities, with a huge storage tank collapsed. Destroyed heavy equipment and facilities. Skeletons of low buildings in area surrounded by woods. Aerial view through missing roofs of buildings
A Nazi fighter plane at an airfield in Germany during World War II. A fighter pilot enters the plane. The plane takes off.
Portions of a damaged film. Excerpted from original shown during the Nuremburg trials and submitted as "Exhibit USA 280." Nuremberg trial transcripts of 13 December, 1945 include the following excerpted descriptions of the footage spoken by U.S. Commander William J. Donovan: "This is a strip of motion pictures taken, we believe, by a member of the S.S., and captured by the United States military forces in an S.S. barracks near Augsburg, Germany...We have not been able to establish beyond doubt in which area these films were made...The film offers undeniable evidence, made by Germans themselves, of almost incredible brutality to Jewish people in the custody of the Nazis, including German military units. It is believed by the prosecution that the scene is the extermination of a ghetto by Gestapo agents, assisted by military units...This film was made on an eight millimetre home camera...The pictures obviously were taken by an amateur photographer...it is burned...This is a silent film....I wish to...direct the Tribunal's attention to certain of the scenes. Scene 2: A naked girl running across the courtyard. Scene 3: An older woman being pushed past the camera, and a man in S.S. uniform standing at the right of the scene. Scene 5: A man with a skull-cap and a woman are manhandled. Scene 14: A half naked woman runs out of the crowd. Scene 15: Another half-naked woman runs through the house. Scene 16: Two men drag an old man out. Scene 18: A man in German military uniform, with his back to the camera, watches. Scene 24: A general shot of the street, showing fallen bodies and naked women running. Scene 32: A shot of the street, showing five fallen bodies. Scene 37: A man with a bleeding head is hit again. Scene 39: A soldier in German military uniform, with a rifle, stands by as a crowd concentrates on a man coming out of the house. Scene 44: A soldier with a rifle, in German military uniform, walks past a woman clinging to a torn blouse. Scene 45: A woman is dragged by her hair across the street.
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