A Nazi concentration and death camp in Mauthausen, Austria after liberation during World War II. A soldier looks at barb wire fencing. Scenes of Nazi atrocities at the camp: A dead woman lying on the ground, and a survivor nearby. Liberated inmates support a prisoner too weak to walk. Extremely thin man assisted in walking by a rescuer man. The rescuer then assists the liberated inmate with bathing. Horse cart carries dead bodies. A man weeps at the site. Number of horse carts ride out of the camp. An arrested German guard is surrounded by soldiers, pointing their rifles toward him.
The Nazi German concentration and death camp at Gusen, Austria (a subcamp of Mauthausen) after its liberation by the U.S. Army during World War II. Horse carts loaded with corpses lined at the camp. Clothes lump of died prisoners. German civilians dig mass graves for the victims of this camp. Two men of German SS troopers pull carts loaded with dead bodies. Elevated wide view panning over the barracks and other buildings of the Gusen concentration camp.
Warden speaks to several officers and then enters the administration building at Alcatraz island in California, United States. He inspects area around the prison. A light house is seen at the island. Guards are seen occupying various posts around the facility.
Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of Warsaw, is seen accompanied by German officers, as he proceeds toward a military bus where he will sign a ceasefire agreement incident to the capitulation of Warsaw defenders in World War 2. Views of the city in ruins, after the ceasefire. Thousands of Polish citizens gathered in an open square, damaged buildings in background. Polish children being escorted by teachers away from the gathering. Aerial views of the bombed out city, with smoke still rising in places. Unknown locations might include the Warsaw Ghetto. View of Polish General Kutrzeba, inside, the bus, where he signed capitulation agreements. He is reviewing local maps with German officers. He exits the bus and is escorted away (taken as a prisoner of war).
View from German airplane flying over Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) Poland, during World War 2 (September, 1939) highlighting numerous bridges destroyed by the German bombing campaign during invasion of Poland. Polish civilians sit on bank of a river, next to destroyed bridge, awaiting boats to ferry them across. Makeshift ferry operations are seen. Women and children throw flowers at German troops passing in military vehicles. German troops engaged in cleanup of bomb damage and helping free a stuck military vehicle, transporting a long barrel artillery gun. Animated map shows shrinking perimeter of Polish military resistance during September, 1939. Polish Army prisoners of war marching along a road.
Newsreel "East -West Parley: U.S. and Red China confer in Geneva." Chinese delegation headed by Chinese Ambassador to Poland, Wang Bingnan, arrives for discussion with American representatives headed by Alexis Johnson, in Geneva. They discuss measures to ease tensions between the parties. The U.S. group agrees to seek a renunciation of the use of force in the settlement of Formosa (Taiwan), and the repatriation of civilian prisoners. Ambassador Wang announces the release of 11 American fliers. After the meeting, a Chinese interpreter reads out Wang's message to the press in English.
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