Freed Jews in Germany. Freed Jews seated on ground. Jewish prisoners in groups along railroad tracks. Views of men, women and children in various stages of emaciation. They express a clue to the suffering they endured. (World War II period).
Italian campaign in World War 2. German gunners firing Krupp 17 cm Kanone 18 guns (one labeled "A" and the other "B"). Captured American prisoners of war (POWs) climb down from a truck. Next, large numbers of Allied POWs, including Americans, British, and British Colonial troops, are seen marching along a road. Film focuses on several captured Indian soldiers.
Germans in Ukraine during World War II. Map of Ukraine shows Kirovograd. German artillery being fired. German tanks advancing. German grenadier troops advance in snow, wearing white winter outerwear. German officers watch through binoculars. View of shortwave antenna and radio operator with headphones. Closeup of German Nebelwerfer rocket artillery. Multitube rocket gun being fired as German soldier manipulates firing mechanism. German soldier in deep square fox hole trench firing artillery remotely. Tanks seen in ditches as prisoners are marched away.
Activities of United States police during Detroit riots in Michigan, United States. Police and police cars outside the building of a jail. Prisoners are taken from jail. Soldiers stand outside the building. Policeman gets into a car. Police cars being driven away.
After ten years German prisoners of war return to their home land from Russian captivity. A vehicle enters into Germany. Men, women and children sitting in the bus. They wave. Children meet their fathers for the first time. Two brothers meet and their heart-warming reunion erases any bitterness.
The Italian hospital ship, "Gradisca," arrives in Stettin harbour, in Germany, (Stettin on the Oder River, now Poland, Szczecin), during World War 2. She carries recuperating exchange German prisoners of war, back home from Oran, Algeria. They are greeted by medical staff and many well-wishers. Children run to the ship as it berths and throw flowers to the soldiers on deck. Wounded on stretchers are removed first. Then the ambulatory soldiers disembark amid warm welcome. Another steamship is seen approaching on the river. It is the Freigeleit. (Actually, this is the French ship,“Djenne,” in German possession, and it too is bringing exchange German POWs back from Oran.) German soldiers fill her upper decks. They play music on deck and celebrate their homecoming. (All the troops, congregating on their port sides, caused both the Gradisca, and the Freigeleit to list to port, somewhat, as they approach the pier.) A bouquet of flowers is raised to the deck of the Freigeleit, on a line, as she ties up. Red Cross nurses line up holding flowers, as sick or wounded soldiers are taken off the ship on stretchers. Then the remaining troops disembark and are greeted with flowers. Some troops write notes to be transmitted to loved ones. A military band plays on the pier. The soldiers board waiting railroad trains to continue their journey.
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