Scenes of destruction in Germany at end of World War II, including Destroyed dwellings and rubble and rubbish-filled bomb craters. A U.S. soldier medic steps across a destroyed structure. German citizens line up to obtain water from a small tank trailer. A bucket being filled. A German civilian work crew laying new water pipes. A large trash heap displaying a sign in German reading: Drinking strictly forbidden. Danger from Typhus!(Trinken Strengstens verboten. Typhusgefahr!). Germans wearing gas masks as they lead horses drawing corpse-laden carts, along a road. Allied military spraying German civilians with DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) at a delousing station. They give each treated person a certificate certifying their treatment. The treated include men, women, and many mothers with their children. A nurse holds a small child as the mother is treated.
Armored fighting vehicles of the U.S. 6th Armored Division move up a road in Germany during World War 2. Vehicles including trucks, jeeps, M8 armored cars, half tracks and tanks advancing on the road. 15th armored regiment tanks in column. Large white tactical numbers synonymous with the 6th Armored Division displayed. Smoke rises from fire in the background. A T34 rocket launcher mounted on an M4 medium tank beside the road. A M4(105) tank of HQ company rounds a corner throwing up dust. A tank with a rocket launcher moves along the road. Jeeps loaded with medics move up with the armored spearhead (heading to their assembly area prior to the Rhine crossing the following day).
U.S. 3rd Infantry Regiment Band provides music for Cabaret Nights at the Red Cross club in Germany during World War II. Red Cross workers and servicemen dance. A crowded dance floor. People dance and the band plays music in background. A waiter serves coffee at table to Corporal Anthony J. Montana, T/4 Richard E. Wheeler, Private First Class Frances L. Deck, T/4 Robert L. Thacker, Private First Class Batty M. Branch, all in EATS communications. The dance floor.
Large number of German prisoner of war soldiers assembled in barracks yard in British Zone in Germany, just after the end of World War 2 in Europe. The German soldiers are being demobilized, finger printed, and insignia are removed from their uniforms. A man cuts a wing symbol off of a German officer's hat. A German farmer addresses the group. Soldiers work in farm and pitch hay.
The end of World War 2 in Europe. United States fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolts of the 362nd Fighter Group in Germany. Group commander's P-47 (multi-colored checkered cowl represents all three assigned squadrons) taxiing on an airfield. The planes take off. Group commander leads a formation of twelve P-47s from the 379th Fighter Squadron (yellow cowlings). They maneuver in flights of four each.
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other officials in the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. military officials enter the gates of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The officials walk on a path inside the camp. U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower with other officials inside the camp. Inmates who had survived in the camp demonstrate a torture device where they are stretched across a wooden platform. General Eisenhower and officials watch. The ground covered with the dead bodies in some areas. Arch Bishop of Canterbury and other church dignitaries visit the camp and inspect. The civilians of the Allied Investigation Commission inspect the camp. The officers walk in front of the camp. They visit the dungeons, crematories, and there is a sign beside a rack of bunks: "5 men with operations in each box". Dead bodies of concentration camp victims piled up. The group of officials view. The officials inside the dungeons with piles of dead bodies of human beings. The remains of the bodies in an enclosure where they were burned in furnaces. The officials stand outside the enclosure.
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