People gather at an opera house in Germany. Dancers perform a high kick routine in the hall. People watch the show and applaud. Some are Nazi German soldiers in uniform. View of an acrobatic show with a floor show followed by a trapeze act entertaining an audience in Germany. Men play in an orchestra in a symphony hall or opera house. Conductor leads orchestra. View of various instrument sections up close, including trumpets. View from behind violin players as they read music and play. Woman model on a stage comes forward and stoops with a tin can to accept contributions in the annual Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes drive, for relief for needy people in Germany during the winter. Street scenes of youth carrying tins and accepting coin and money contributions from German citizens for the Winterhilfswerk fund drive. A small child adds a coin to the tin. A Nazi officer adds a coin. A group of men crowd around to put coins in the tin. People watch them. Brief montage scene of German armament in World War 2, including artillery being raised to fire, close-up view of tank tread as tank advances, German Navy ships underway in the ocean, low-flying German aircraft flying overhead in the sky including a Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor aircraft.
U.S. Air Force aircraft fly some Berlin children to West Germany for summer vacation during Operation Kinderlift in Germany. German children with their parents at an airport. A young German child with a tag around his neck. An officer holds a German boy and he cries. A young German boy stands by. A woman holding her son. The U.S. officer along with the German children board a U.S. aircraft. The parents of the German children wave as their children depart for vacation holidays in West Germany during the Cold War. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The children seated inside the aircraft. Two boys play chess. A boy eats banana. Another looks through binoculars.
Hermann Goering questioned by Chief Prosecutor Robert H Jackson during the Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany. Prosecutor Robert H Jackson questions Goering about the German government. Goering describes the ways and means of arresting people and states: 'The government that Germany had was the only feasible type of government at that time and it succeeded in pulling Germany out of the depths.' Courtroom rises for the recess. Some of the defendants talk during the recess.
The capture of German General Albert Kesselring in Berchtesgaden, Germany during World War II. General Kesselring and two aides enter the terrace of the Berchtesgadener Hof hotel (present location is now the Haus der Berge, Hanielstraße 7, 83471 Berchtesgaden, Germany) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, where U.S. General Maxwell D. Taylor had arranged for them to stay following surrender at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They sit together at a table and review documents. United States Army General Maxwell D. Taylor and Colonel Ned D. Moore of the 101st Airborne Division leave a building with a 101st Airborne emblem on the doorway and meet Colonel Charles H. Chase.
Nazi plaque at Feldherrnhalle (Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München, Germany) during World War II. A bridge on a river in Munich, Germany. Buildings of Munich damaged due to the bombing by the Allied bombers during World War II. Civilians pass by the ruins of destroyed buildings. The famous "Church of Two Towers" or Frauenkirche (Frauenplatz 12, 80331 München, Germany) damaged by bombing of Allied bombers. The Frauenkirche towers.
View of ruins in Munich, Germany during World War II. United States Army soldiers warming themselves at fire. U.S. Army soldiers in the Ehrentempel (Brienner Straße 34, 80333 München, Germany) in Munich, Germany. Iron sarcophagi with names of the buried Stormtroopers written over them. 'Der Letzte Appell' 'Ehrlich Hier' written on one of the sarcophagi.
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