Newsreel titled 'America's pledge of Allegiance'. A huge crowd of about 500,000 citizens of the United States assemble at Central Park in New York. Among the crowd dignitaries, sailors, military and police officials can also be seen. A person addresses the assembly. U.S. National Flag is hoisted. A speaker at the podium recites the Pledge of Allegiance and the crowd repeats after him.
Newsreel depicts the visit of former British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to the United States. Anthony Eden gets into a limousine at Union Station. The U.S. Capitol can be seen at a distance. The cars move towards the White House. Women wave goodbye to the cars. Eden and other officials visit George Washington's tomb and home, Mount Vernon, in Alexandria, Virginia. Views of Mount Vernon. Views of Eden's wife accompanying him.
Newsreel titled 'Army Day in Coblenz'. General Patton inspects Allied military troops in Koblenz, Germany. General attends a ceremony of raising the first American Flag on the German soil, at a castle on the Western front of World War II. General Bradley addresses soldiers. The General, military officials and soldiers salute the U.S. National Flag.
The Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis. Red Cross trucks and relief from Switzerland reaches the concentration camp. Amongst the 2000 survivors of this camp, almost a 1000 are boys of age, fourteen or less. The weak, starved and tortured inmates from various European countries, at the camp. Old men and children at the camp with starved and leaned bodies. Stacks of dead bodies at crematory, in a truck, at the experimental building have prisoner number and nationality tattooed on their stomach. A weapon used for torturing. Crematory ovens at with the nameplate of its manufacturer 'JA Topfe and Sohne.'. The bones and remains of dead inside the ovens. (World War II period).
The Dachau concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Local town's people brought to witness the atrocities at the camp. Weeping women rush out of a compound after seeing the dead. Clothes of the victims who died in a gas chamber. The gas chamber camouflaged as a shower bath written 'Brausebad' (Shower-bath). The outlet pipes for carrying gases inside the chamber, push button and valve controls to maintain the gas. A box of cyanide powder used to mix with the gas. Crematory where the dead from the gas chambers were taken. Inside a crematory oven burnt skulls, bones and parts of human bodies. Emaciated , starved prisoners of the camp, all without any clothes, too weak to stand or walk.
A sign identifies the village of Bande, in Belgium, during World War 2. View of snow-covered village rooftops from a distance. Closeup of a cafe in the village. Bodies of 34 young men from the village are seen lying in the cellar of the cafe. All had been executed on Christmas Eve, by a unit of the Nazi SD (Sicherheitsdienst) affiliated with the SS (Schutzstaffel) in retribution for the deaths of three German soldiers killed by Belgian maquis (Resistance fighters) on September 5, 1944. (Bande had been occupied by U.S. forces soon thereafter, but was retaken by German forces in the December Ardennes offensive, setting the stage for the massacre.) British troops that re-occupied the village on January 10th, 1945, are seen removing the bodies from the cellar and placing them on the snow-covered street. Wooden coffins are stacked up at the side of the building. Some closeups of the victims are seen. Scene shifts to a snowy field where the bodies are on the ground and men wrap them in sheets and place them in coffins. Closeup of British soldiers placing cover on a coffin and affixing an identification tag on it. Next, the Village Priest presides over a mass funeral for the victims, as villagers stand along the line of coffins. Women in black grieve over the victims. British soldiers carry the coffins to army trucks.The villagers follow behind the trucks as they proceed to the graveyard for burial. The coffins are placed on the ground at the cemetery.
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