The Malmedy War Crimes Trials in Dachau, Germany. The defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars". The prosecutor quotes in part German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard the Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "the Battle of the Bulge". He goes on to tell how "German soldiers sang the sword and blood songs thus releasing them from any regulations as to the treatment of prisoners".
Trade unions in a building in Hamburg, Germany. At an outdoor ceremony Colonel Armetage, British Military Government, restores free trade unions and union buildings for the people of Hamburg. Paul Bebert, formerly a prisoner in a World War 2 Nazi concentration camp, speaks to a crowd and then mounts a scaffold and with a hammer and a chisel destroys a swastika on the facade of a building.
Traditional Rose Monday festival in Cologne, Germany. Large crowds gather during the prosperity pageant. Troops march during the festival. Humorous and grotesque masquerades and decorated floats in the Rose Monday festival.
Calisthenics for cooks in Berlin, Germany. Cooks climb up stairs and walk down. The cooks practice performing calisthenics. A cook stands in front of others and teaches them. The cooks exercise with kitchen utensils.
Contests shoot with rifles at a clay-pigeon shooting tournament in Berlin, Germany. One man on a raised platform speaks to contestants. Men tip their hats to each other.
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin floats in air low above field in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Letters on side of LZ-127 reads 'Graf Zeppelin'. Radio room under LZ-127. Ground crews encircle the control gondola of the airship as it touches down, and German soldiers, in uniform, help stabilize the tail support. Large tail propeller seen above their heads. Spectators walk toward LZ-127.
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