German Chancellor Adolf Hitler waves from his car during a motorcade in Germany during World War II. Large crowds gathered on side of street to view parade of Nazi officials. Nazi officials outside a large building. Hitler's motorcade moves past a crowd as they cheer him. Lead car holds a film camera operator standing high on vehicle and using camera on tripod to follow and film Hitler. Crowds and police greet Hitler with the Nazi salute. Hitler stands in the car and gives a Nazi salute to the cheering crowd.
Victim and medical treatment following atomic bomb use by United States over Hiroshima during World War 2. Victim Yamashita's elbow and hands with stricture. Left hand with stricture of little finer.
Japanese women around shacks and shanties in Tokyo, Japan. Monuments at a cemetery in Tokyo. Tin shack constructed from scrap wood and tin in the background. Japanese girls stand in front of the entrance of a tin shack. A newly constructed shack amidst the ruins of bombed out area. The bombed out area shows typical temporary homes. Women in the foreground wash vegetables. Entrance to a shack shows a woman brewing tea over a charcoal stove. An outdoor treasure vault now used as home. A woman walks from the door of a partly underground shanty to an outdoor faucet.
Construction of new houses in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. A new house under construction. A Japanese laborer drills holes through roof slats. The laborer picks up pieces he has drilled holes in and climbs up a step ladder and onto a roof. A middle class house recently constructed shows delicate and extension glass. Paneling for out doors and paper paneling for the inner corridor. Construction of a new Japanese house shows a carpenter using a tool to square lumber. Two workers roofing with bamboo. Construction of another house shows a bamboo thatched roof and in the background another house under construction. A man weaves a bamboo lathe for a house wall which is later to be plastered with mud.
A cemetery in Hiroshima, Japan. The cemetery shows tombstones with small crypt stones displaced and human bones scattered around. Rows of small boxes containing remains of people stacked along a wall. A Japanese girl kneels in front of the boxes in prayer. Front view of the girl praying. Interiors show a girl seated at a table piled with several articles used in a religious ceremony. A man enters to pick up the remains of his beloved one. He bows to an official and hands the official his identification slip. The official in turn looks through a file and then walks to the large stock pile of small wooden boxes containing the remains. The official selects the proper one and hands it over to the relative. The relative brings the box containing the remains to the Japanese girl for necessary prayers.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. In the rubble a Japanese family searches for roof tiles to be used in their new home. A Japanese man searches through ruins of his former home for salvageable items. Ruins of a catholic church in the background. A Japanese boy searches through the rubble for salvage. A Japanese woman carrying a bouquet passes through lines of headstones in a cemetery. She reaches the gravestone of her son and places the flowers in two stone flower vases on each side. She clasps her hand and meditates. A Japanese woman walks along a road through rubble in front of a building.
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