Part 1 of a 2 part interrogation of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, a German officer, by a United States Army captain in Germany at the conclusion of World War 2 in Europe. The United States Army Captain interrogates him through an American enlisted man serving as interpreter. They talk amongst themselves. They discuss a paper.
Part 2 of a 2 part Interrogation of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, a famous German Colonel, by a United States Army captain in Germany. The United States army captain interrogates him through an American enlisted man serving as interpreter. The Colonel speaks about the liberation of Benito Mussolini and his rescue by plane. He also tells about the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini and the Italian dictators return to the Lake Garda area. These were accomplished by the Panzer brigade. Skorzeny takes off his wrist watch commemorating the event and they discuss the information inscribed on its back. The wrist watch lies on the table.
P-38 planes attack and strafe buildings, railways, and roads in Germany. Use of P-38 as F5B reconnaissance plane. Performance as fighter bomber and as rocket launcher. Smoke after explosion forms clouds. Scenes of destroyed areas. (World War II period).
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. Ground level view of the heavily damaged Reichstag building in Berlin, with destroyed defense equipment on the grounds. Interior view of rubble inside the Reichstag. Close-up panning view of a painting of the Krupp family that produced arms during both world wars. A destroyed steel frame and girder structure that narrator says was part of Krupp arms factory. Former German soldiers being processed. They are lined up, sprayed with delousing powder, interrogated and their documents checked during demobilization. Demobilized former German soldiers give their thumb print impressions. A British officer interrogates an older man in civilian clothes, and then his Luftwaffe picture and papers are shown. Shirtless German men with their arms up in the air pass by a British inspector looking for SS mark under their left armpit. A British interrogator talks to a captured German soldier and rejects him for demobilization, based on his answers or his paperwork. A guard steps forward to escort the man back to prison.
United States P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft strafing over a town in Germany. Aerial views of German town with a road track on the ground. P-47 strafes the town and drops napalm incendiary bombs. Explosions on the ground. A fleet of P-47 Thunderbolts in flight. (World War II period).
Aerial view of devastated city of Berlin in Germany at end of World War II in Europe. View of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building, and many other landmark buildings of Berlin as seen from a low flying aircraft. Other destroyed buildings and the River Spree flowing through the city. The destroyed building of Rheinmetall Borsig plant.
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