Three German soldiers, who were captured in American uniforms, spying behind the American lines, in the Fall of 1944, are executed by a firing squad. In a separate sequence, one of several German civilians is marched toward gallows at Bruchsal prison near Karlsruhe, Germany. They were condemned by a military tribunal for killing six United States Army Air Force aviators who were being held as prisoners of war after crash landing their airplane near the end of the war. A hangman makes preparations. The German criminals are hanged.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany (Gerszewski Barracks, Knielingen) for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). Several shots of officers keeping money boxes on a trolley. The boxes with money are loaded in a truck. The officers keep a watch. Trucks carrying money drive on a road. The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The boxes are piled up. The money is burnt. Officers pick up MPCs and put them into the fire. The whole committee witnesses the burning of the scrip money. The officers collect money and put it into the fire.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The money burning. An officer light a cigarette from burning bills. The officer uses a stick to put the money in fire. The money burning. The convoy met by MP car speeding on the icy autobahn. A U.S. truck carrying money backs up towards the building. A man directs the truck. The officer unload boxes. They open a box. Money inside the box. The officers look at the box. An officer pushes the money in fire. The officers one after the other sign on a document
The Swedish American ship Gripsholm arrives at New York harbor carrying American soldiers and others exchanged for German prisoners in World War II. 160 were internees at Vittel. Others included American diplomats from Vichy who were being held at Baden-Baden. Soldiers stand on deck and wave as ship is docked at Pier F in Jersey City. The soldiers disembark the ship. The Wounded soldiers. Diplomats and war correspondents talk about the conditions of Germany as it is losing the war. Douglas MacArthur (nephew of General Douglas MacArthur) is seen with a dog as he arrives. Ralph E. Heinzen of the United Press describes conditions in Germany and stresses that Germany is losing the war.
Infantry moves into Baden-Württemberg, Germany during World War II. Soldiers fire rifles from the bank overlooking the Rhine River. Trees in the foreground. A path in a field. Artillery observers look through field glasses from their observation posts . Soldiers and vehicles of United States 302nd Regiment, 94th Division move through the town. The entrance doorway of a building. Two soldiers search prisoner. Another soldier with a rifle stands guard. The soldiers fire rifles from the bank overlooking the Rhine River.
Swedish Royal carriage carrying King Gustaf V, and wife the Queen, Victoria of Baden, drives past Swedish Royal Guards. King Gustaf V, wearing a very thick coat and a cocked hat, and Queen Victoria alight from the carriage, with valets assisting the royal couple. The King and Queen of Sweden shakes hands with Royal Guards. The Queen walks with her husband to the port to launch a warship, based on porthole count and arrangement on stern, possibly HSwMS Sverige or HSwMS Drottning Victoria, both of which launched from Gothenburg. These were Swedish Sverige-class coastal defence ship (Pansarskepp) vessels.