The Dachau concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Aerial view of buildings and compound of the camp. The entrance with the Nazi swastika. Liberated inmates of the camp belong to countries like Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Holland. Starved and leaned prisoners of the camp in miserable conditions. Starved dead bodies. Survivors rescued on a cart. Trains filled with lumps of dead bodies lifted by inmates for burial.
Film opens showing air combat scenes from tun camera of several American fighter planes shooting down German warplanes. Some are high altitude encounters with aircraft leaving contrails as they fly. Gun camera views from American planes strafing German airfields and destroying aircraft on the ground. Strafing over lines of communication like roads, highways, canals and railroads. Locomotives struck and huge clouds of smoke issuing from them. Military fortifications being strafed and smoke rising. A huge explosion from a train being strafed. View from American fighter aircraft passing through ball of fire from explosion during strafing. Formation of American B-26 Marauder bombers flying through Flak clouds. One is seen flying level in flames. Another is seen from below. It is in D-Day striped paint and its left engine has been hit and partly torn off. Next, it is seen rolling over and headed down with flames and smoke coming from its left side.
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
Draftees of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War I. Cooks prepare food for the new recruits in training at an open mess area. Draftees move slowly carrying utensils for food. Cooks give meal to all the draftees, spooning out beans onto plates. Group of World War I soldiers of the United States Army carrying their rifles, march past a bridge. A boy in uniform walks beside them.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. Women and girls feed a donkey, there parodying the democratic party, and they place a poster on it. The poster on donkey reads 'Our next President-Thomas Dewey'. A crowd of women stands near the donkey, at the railway station terminal in Junction City, Kansas. A train arrives and emerges Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections. Women pose the donkey in front of him. He addresses the crowd. Guards control the crowd. Men show placards to Dewey as he finishes his speech and move inside.
Training regarding relief and rebuilding works in Germany and Japan by United States Army, after World War II. Narrator discussing adoption of American inventions during the war that were used against America and allies. Sketch of an early American submarine design, followed by view of German U-boats operating under sea, firing torpedoes and target ship is destroyed. Footage of Wright brothers with an early Wright Brothers airplane invention, as they prepare it for a flight. This is followed by a view of London burning after aerial blitz raids by German aircraft during World War 2. View of atomic bomb explosion over Japanese city of Nagasaki and mushroom cloud seen from the air. Also view of Trinity blast in New Mexico - the first U.S. atomic test. The atomic cloud rises high and vast in the sky. Narrator warning against the perils of a third world war.
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