Camera pans over destruction in aftermath of German siege of Sevastopol, Crimea, in World War 2. German General Erich von Manstein, Commander of German and Romanian forces, visits with officers in the ruins of Fort Maxim Gorky. He shakes hands with several of his troops, standing in front of one of the Soviet 305mm coastal guns atop the fort. Scenes of wrecked Soviet defensive batteries. Romanian troops testing the area for buried land mines. A flag identifies location of one. Romanian soldiers removing a buried mine. Romanian officers overseeing the operation. Romanian troops moving downward from the slopes toward the city, where smoke rises from bombardment. German troops moving toward bunkers. One throws a hand grenade. German soldiers moving through the city in house-to-house operations. Soviet warships sunk in the harbor. The Nazi flag flying above damaged building overlooking the harbor. What appear to be twin towers of a Russian Church and a minaret are seen in the rubble. A German soldier lays out a Nazi flag to smooth it for raising, as smoke billows from fires behind him. Camera pans the bombed and shelled hillsides in the area. Some horses stand on the hillside. A damaged artillery field piece stands amidst rubble. A deep bomb crater is shown. Soviet prisoners walk down from the fortifications. A long line of Soviet prisoners is seen marching under guard. Narrator states they number some 90 thousand.
Many samples of handicrafts are exhibited by young girls and boys in Bird House building contest. Group of boys holding bird houses they made. Few boys pose with their bird houses. View of two girls holding bird houses pose as winners. 14 year old Donald Greeger wins with his Purple Martin house, which is admired by Walter Hastings, wildlife photographer of the state conservation department.
State of Israel formed amid violence. Men and a woman with pilot of small plane. Aerial views of landscape. Aircraft in flight. Bomb damage at a port and a ship seen in harbor. Dead body in rubble, a victim of the Arab-Israeli war.
Cars arrive at Capitol in Washington DC. Session of congress in progress. President Truman, Secretary of State George Marshall, and other dignitaries leaving in cars. Crowd outside Capitol. Congress session in progress.
Totem poles and large carvings made from trunks of trees by indigenous native Indians in Alaska. Different figures on poles represent different people or events. View of different totem poles in Alaska. Children listen to the story of totem poles from a carver. Many views of children looking at totem poles. A Tlingit Indian tribe totem house at the Totem Bight State Park near Ketchikan, Alaska. A man enters the community house. Scene changes to exterior of Tlingit Community House on Shakes Island in Wrangell, Alaska (now Chief Shakes Historic Site). Native people wearing chilkat blankets enter the house. View of a potlach ceremony with native instruments and dance outside the Chief Shakes Community House.
Hermann Goering, dressed in vest and lederhosen, walks to patio of his chalet on the Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps, near Berchtesgaden. He stoops to pet a lion cub. Goering picks up a newspaper and starts to read it, when the lion cub jumps up on the wooden patio railing. A black long hair dog behind Goering seems unconcerned. Goering speaks to the cub,calling him "Caesar." He tells the cub to jump from the railing, which it does. Goering then states he wants to take this opportunity to express thanks to all Germans.
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