Aftermath of the Gardelegen Massacre: German civilians dig grave for Nazi atrocity victims in Gardelegen, Germany. Mutilated and burned bodies of one thousand political deportee prisoners, including Russians, Poles and French, in and around a large barn. United States Army Infantry troops view and inspect the bodies, and supervise German civilians being forced to dig mass graves for the victims, who had been transported to the barn from the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and the Hannover-Stöcken Concentration Camp during World War 2.
U.S. Coast Guardsmen with 11 prisoners move in a row on the port. The seized boat with cargo at the port along with the coastal guard boat. Workers removing seized liquor cargo from the boat. A coastal guard supervises them. The seize include liquor packed in bags. 'Pure rye Whiskey' is written on one of the bag. The seize is loaded on a wheeled cart and moved by workers. During Prohibition.
Scenes of new prisoners, in striped garb, being interviewed during investigations of alleged atrocities by the government of former President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Interviewer takes notes as he questions Muguel Angel Duque, former Chief of the Guatemala City Civil Guard. Guatemalan Civil Guard soldiers are seen throughout the compound.
All prisoners seated in dock during the Nuremberg Trials, Germany. Hermann Goering stands up and starts to read statement to the court. Justice Lawrence interrupts, saying that the defendants are not permitted to read statements but are to plead guilty or not guilty. Goering, Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Julius Streicher, Walter funk, Hjalmar Schacht, franz Von Papan, Konstantin Neurath, and Hans Fritche, one by one , plead not guilty. Goering again rises to make a statement, but is warned by the court. (World War II period).
In the first exchange of Allied and Axis wounded prisoners of war, the British Hospital Ship, Atlantis, with number 33 painted on her side, steams into port, at Leith, Scotland, (and then on to Liverpool, England) during World War 2. She is returning Allied wounded from Germany, by way of Goeteborg, Sweden. British soldiers are carried off ship on stretchers. Several ambulatory American soldiers leave ship on foot. Railroad train seen right at the port.
Allied prisoners of war return home in England during World War II. Casualties are brought on stretchers at at railroad station. They board hospital train at rail station. British give cigarettes to wounded soldiers. Soldiers with their belongings board train. Several hold up hands with the "V" for victory symbol.
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