An old French woman pushes a hand cart along a road beside Annecy airfield, France. during World War 2. German prisoners of war work removing stone from the airfield. American flyers, who escaped from internment in Switzerland, ride on a truck carrying them along the road behind the woman with her cart. They are dressed in civilian clothes. The German POWs look up as the truck drives past. One of the German prisoners is painting a signal device. The truck of American aviators pulls up to a C-47 transport airplane. They climb down. One of them wearing a German army cap, laughingly gives a Nazi salute, to the amusement of his companions. The Americans watch as a groups of German POWs march past. An officer speaks to the Americans. Meanwhile, German prisoners of war continue to walk past in the foreground, guarded by armed French soldiers. The repatriated flyers are briefed by pilots.
United States prisoners of war are freed in the Philippines during World War II. U.S. prisoners and Filipino civilians are liberated from a Japanese prison camp. Men aboard trucks moving past on a field. Other men march along the field. Mountains in the foreground. Some men on carabao bullock-carts passing on the field.
World War II French prisoners of war come out of freight cars and walk towards a railroad platform in Paris, France. Wounded French prisoners arrive at a train station in Paris. Soldiers assist the wounded. French prisoners of war walk with baggage. French politician Pierre Laval arrives from London, England at the North Station along with German Minister Schleier. He shakes hands with other German officers. Debris lying outside German troops barracks.
Nazi concentration camps in Germany. Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany. The British Commander of Royal Artillery describes the conditions at the concentration camp after Allied liberation near the end of World War II. The Commander says that food is being given to survivors and dead bodies are burnt. German woman doctor states that there were no beds for women prisoners; men and women died daily. Inmates started cannibalizing dead prisoners. Medical experiments were done on prisoners.
On illegal drug dealing of Marijuana in San Diego, California. A Marijuana detection dog with an officer along a road. The officer stops cars and interrogates drivers. He asks a driver to open the hood of his car. The German Shepherd detection dog carefully sniffs the car engine, tires, the seats inside and the license plate. The officer opens the number plate to find Marijuana behind it. Sign reads 'Court Marshal in Session'. Two officers enter a court room. An accused officer sits in a chair and is interrogated by senior officers in the panel. The accused is court marshaled and sent to jail for five years. Close-up of guard and prison feet walking into prison cell. Close up of door of jail cell lock turned with key. View of dejected man in prison cell, head down as he sits on a cot. Sign seen reads, "WARNING BRINGING NARCOTICS OR DANGEROUS DRUGS INTO THE UNITED STATES IS A FELONY CRIME !"
The first memorial erected to commemorate U.S.prisoners of war executed by the Nazis during the battle of the bulge (mostly elements of the American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion (FAOB), executed by the Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division). This was also known as the Massacre at Baugnez, or the Malmedy Massacre. A wooden cross and a sign reading 'USA - Belgium. To the prisoners of war of overseas who liberated the East districts and were the victims of Nazis cruelty." The wooden cross at the monument to commemorate the massacre of 115 American prisoners at Baugnez on December 17th 1944 during the Battle of Bulge, in World War 2.
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