Newsreel titled 'Victims of Nazi Rule Welcomed'. The U.S. ship "Marine Flasher" carrying European Refugees arrives at a harbor in New York in the year after the end of World War 2. A huge crowd waits at the harbor. The refugees are welcomed with warmth by their relatives and friends in an emotional environment. Man given a warm hug by his relatives. A woman and her child. Sobbing woman welcomes her loved one. Mother and child, and two other women show prisoner number tattoos on their arms, administered by the German Nazis in a concentration camp.
U.S. Army training film depicts racial theories used by the German Nazi party. Clip includes mix of actual footage and actor portrayals. Actors portraying Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goring and others at their office. Next scene is authentic footage of book burning by Nazi soldiers. Actor portraying prisoner in jail cell. Actual view of people in Germany migrating with their belongings. Several views of University students crossing a bridge over River Lahn, and buildings of Philipps University of Marburg in Marburg Germany during the late 1930s or early 1940s. View of news commentator speaking at microphone of BBC radio. Cover page of an edition of The New York Times as example of media banned in Nazi Germany. Actual footage of Goebbels speaking and addressing a group. Footage of champion African American boxer Joe Louis fighting in the boxing ring. His fights were banned to be seen in Germany. View of scientist Albert Einstein walking in a garden area outdoors and then on a footpath toward what appears to be Nassau Hall of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. Remainder of clip shows dramatized scenes with actors, as follows: Catholic priest and a judge express fear from hatred spread by Nazis and oppose Nazi theories. They were put into concentration camp. A teacher in class disapproves Nazi theory of racial supremacy. Nazi soldiers arrest him. (World War II period).
The Buchenwald concentration camp of Nazi Germany shortly after its liberation in World War II. 1200 civilians of a town Weimar, nearby the camp, being sent on a forced tour of the camp. A group of smiling civilians, men and women walk towards the camp. Civilians enter the camp and see the display of articles made of human skin. Lampshades, paintings and display of human bones serve as evidence of atrocities committed against camp victims. Human heads shrunk to one fifth of their normal size. Women faint and are carried out. Civilians visit the ill-conditions of prisoners at surviving sections of the camp. Truckloads of dead bodies of victims of this camp.
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.
Arnsdadt concentration camp which housed Russian and Polish prisoners of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Tents and fenced boundaries at the camp. German civilians dig common grave and bury the dead. U.S. soldiers guard them. Dead body of a United States army man shot in forehead by the retreating Germans. Ground covered with dead bodies of the victims of atrocities at this concentration camp.
Hadamar concentration camp in Germany visited after World War II. Major Herman Bolker and his sub-ordinates step out of a U.S. military truck and move into the camp. Disease-stricken, weak and starved prisoners at the camp. Guards dig a common grave and pull out corpses of the victims of this concentration camp. Doctors and priests at the place. Guards make notes about the dead. Chief physician of the camp, Adolf Wahlmann, with head nurse, Karl Willig, are interrogated by Major Walker. He shows a bottle of morphine, as morphine injection was commonly used to murder the inmates. Soldiers arrest Wahlmann.
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