A person pasting a poster on the door of Kottbuser Ufer synagogue announcing resuming of religious services. A man on a ladder fixing curtain, others bringing flowers,some of them fixing lights, bringing 'Torah'. The Jews put on the Tallis- a prayer shawl with ritually knotted fringe and recite the prayers. An American soldier offering prayers and GI talking with a German during the service. (World War II period).
Emaciated prisoners of the Nordhausen concentration camp are carried out of the prison. They are taken to ambulances by U.S. medics and Military Police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. The ambulances carrying victims leave prison area. (World War II period).
At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.
President Harry S.Truman is flanked by Brigadier General John Howell Collier, Commander, 2nd Armored Division, and a Major General to his left, and Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan (in sun glasses) and other military officers and Secret Service agents to his right, as they salute the colors during a visit to the 2nd Armored Division while enroute to Berlin and the Potsdam Conference at end of World War 2. The President steps up onto a mobile reviewing platform, followed by General Collier. Scene shifts to a line of 2nd Armored Division M10 Tank Destroyers with their crews saluting as the President's reviewing vehicle passes. The President with Secretary of State,James F. Byrnes, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, riding in an open car toward Berlin on an autobahn highway.They are followed by several vehicles carrying military Police and a jeep filled with members of the press.
President Truman's motorcade stops to review troops of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, along a German highway (autobahn) while enroute to Berlin. The Presidential party, includes Truman, Secretary of State Byrnes, Brigadier General Collier, Brigadier General Vaughan, Fleet Admiral Leahy, and others. They stand on a platform in an Army reconnaissance vehicle while it passes more a mile of parked tanks and other armor, with respective crews standing in front. President Truman and his party salute as they pass the colors. The Presidential limousine and other vehicles follow the reviewing party. The Presidential party stops as Truman presents a Presidential Unit Citation to Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. (World War II period)
Opening scene shows Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov and officers of his staff walking across a field in Russia, during World War 2. Soviet SU-100 (Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 100) tank destroyers armed with a 100 mm anti-tank guns, rush past the camera. Next, Marshal Zhukov is seen surrounded by senior Soviet officers as he speaks on a field telephone. A formation of Soviet warplanes flies over the advancing tank destroyers. Marshal Zhukov and staff observe field operations from an established trench covered by a camouflage netting. Closeup of Zhukov examining a map. Soviet armor moving under fire from German shells exploding near them. Glimpse of Zhukov and staff in another observation point. Soviet armor and infantry enduring explosions from German gunfire and moving forward in smoke. Animated map shows gradual Soviet advances beginning at the River Oder and pressing toward and beginning to encircle Berlin.
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