May Day celebrations at a prisoner of war camp in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Russian prisoners of war (POWs) hold May Day celebrations in the camp "Stalag 6" after the liberation by United States Forces. Russian soldiers carry a banner in Russian and English which reads "long live Americans which liberated us from the Nazi captivity." Portraits of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the President of the United States Harry S. Truman and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill. United States Major General Ray Edison Porter, Commanding General of the United States 75th Infantry Division ; Camp Commandant Major N. Mironof and other Russian officials on a speakers' platform. A large crowd of Russian prisoners gathered during the celebration..
Japanese prison camp number 3 in northern Honshu, Japan after World War II. Buildings at the prison camp and U.S. prisoners milling about at the camp grounds. U.S. officers talk and smile. Buildings around the camp grounds.
Eminent prisoners held in Nazi German prison camps in Germany are seen being released after the Allied victory during World War II. Snow covered Alps in Germany. A villa in the mountains. Eminent prisoners released from German camps include wife of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, the Baroness Schuschnigg, industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prince Leopold of Prussia, German General Franz Halder, Anti-Nazi Pastor Martin Niemöller, Allied pilots, Lieutenant John Winant (son of American Ambassador to England), Lord George Lascelles, the nephew of King George VI, John Alexander Elphinstone, Michael Alexander, and Max de Hamel, cousin of Winston Churchill. Scene changes to Magdeburg, Germany where German General Kurt Dittmar,a Nazi radio broadcaster (Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces), together with his son, young soldier Berend Dittmar, surrenders to American soldiers of the U.S. Army 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, on April 25, 1945.
U.S. prisoners of war are freed in the Philippines during World War II. U.S. prisoners and Filipino civilians stand outside a building. They are liberated from a Japanese prison camp. Men talk amongst themselves. The liberated soldiers and the civilians cheer. The wounded and the sick men are carried from the camp on stretchers. Wheel carts outside the building. Men seated on the wheel carts. Hay stacks on other wheel carts. A medic talks to a soldier. A man eats a fruit.
Allied internees are interviewed after their liberation in the Philippines during World War II. A man interviews a patient lying on a hospital bed. The patient talks about his experiences in the prison camp. He talks about the conditions in the Japanese prison camp as a former prisoner of war.
Various former internees of the Japanese forces are interviewed in the Philippines during World War II. Three prisoners of war liberated from a Japanese prison camp seated in a tent. They discuss amongst themselves. They talk about their experiences and conditions in the prison camp.
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