A harbor in Cherbourg, France during World War II. Two vessels anchored to the harbor, one of them the Destroyer Escort USS Donnell (DE-56) recently converted to duty as Electric Power Barge (IX-182) supplying power to shore in Cherbourg from her turbo-electric generator. A smaller ship "32" by her side. A crane in the dock in view. A man on the dock. Flags flying on the two ships. Men step from the USS Donnell to the harbor. Few officers and sailors standing and talking on the USS Donnell aka Electric Power Barge IX-182. View of shore battery anti-aircraft artillery gun beside the dock. Men unloading materials from a truck and a few men at work with a concrete mixer including German prisoners of war under guard. Several seamen beside a board with 'US Navy Boat Landing' written on it. Small boat arrives and a number of U.S. Navy sailors come ashore.
Gravely wounded and sick liberated concentration camp victims in Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Several wounded women in a camp after liberation being attended to by physicians. At Auschwitz, children who lost their parents walk along a fenced corridor. The children show tattoos on their arms that are marks for identification. At other camps, two men who were survivors, one man whose eye was gouged out by the Nazis. Men behind barbed wire. Tortured men who could not walk or crawl being helped by soldiers. Naked, starved liberated victims stand in a line to receive aid. Man helps a starved man to walk. A man crawls. Bodies of prisoners who died . Officials beside the bodies.
German people compelled by Allied forces to visit liberated concentration camps in Germany during World War 2. Citizens enter camp facilities and see horrors of holocaust. They emerge visibly shaken. View of some survivors of the camp. The Nazi leaders and officials made to visit the camp. The officials visit the dungeons where the prisoners were tortured. Heaps of bodies in a dungeon. The officials cover their noses with their hands and come out of the dungeon. German citizens of Weimar in lines waiting to visit nearby Buchenwald Concentration Camp. German citizens walking on roads, passing a sign board for "Adolf Hitler Strasse" (Adolf Hitler Street). Citizens walk toward the camp and are seen entering through the gates of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The corpses laid in coffins arranged in a line. German men, women, and children walk in a line by the side of the coffins. Children hold their noses. Men and women come out of the camp shaken by the experience. The people are made to walk by piles of dead bodies of atrocity victims loaded in trucks . Dead bodies of children and men in piles. People walk along the side of a road past a long row of the bodies of camp victims. Flashback scene to German crowd cheering the Nazi Party at a rally in Nuremberg, and various rallies hailing Adolf Hitler. Scene of large group of Germans marching and carrying crosses for graves.
During World War II, scene of a few women with terrible wounds at a German concentration camp near Ramsdorf after being liberated. Physicians attend to the atrocity victims. View of children who managed to survive at Auschwitz camp even after losing their families. The children show their tattoos on their hands that are marks for their identification. Two men who were survivors, one man whose eyes were gouged out by his captors. Men behind barbed wires. Inmate victims who could not walk or crawl being helped by soldiers. Nude men who were starved stand in a group at Ebensee Concentration Camp. Man helps a starved, emaciated man to walk. A man crawls. Bodies of prisoners who died without getting medical aid. Officials beside the bodies. Scenes are from a variety of camps including Ramsdorf, Auschwitz, Aschaffenburg, Bergen-Belsen, and some others that are not clear from the narration.
Busy and crowded Vietnamese market at a riverbank. Republic of Vietnam soldiers move amid a wooded area and engage enemy forces. They escort several captured Viet Cong prisoners. South Vietnamese Political leader addressing people from stage shared with many U.S. Officers and Vietnamese elders. Group of South Vietnamese children walking through a village, carrying very small Republic of Vietnam flags. A jeep containing South Vietnamese soldiers drives under a sign reading: "TRAI TRANG-SUP, III Corp CIDG Training Center.", at base of Civilian Irregular Defense Group. U.S. Advisor seen with South Vietnamese soldier, at firing range where Vietnamese Irregular Defense Forces are firing M-16 rifles. Scenes of rural village life in Vietnam and South Vietnamese security personnel checking people's identifications. (Vietnam War period).
French troops operating in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, France, during World War 2. Burning buildings in village. The spire of a church. Smoke rising from the burnt areas. A man directs several boys to help fight the fire. Village residents fighting fires with buckets of water. Colonial North African infantry of the French 1st Army accompanied by an M4 Sherman tank on street outside gated official-looking building. They enter through gates cautiously. Elsewhere, a local Frenchman pours glasses of white wine for American soldiers sitting in a jeep. Scene shifts to the French troops, along with a cameraman, who are sheltering under sniper fire, near building. Their M4 tank (named "Marne") also provides some cover. Momentary glimpse of German soldiers taken prisoner.
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