U.S. publishers and editors visit Weimar, Germany during World War II. U.S. Army Brigadier General Frank Albert Allen and officials greet and receive the publishers and editors at an airport. They pose for photographers. Aircraft in the background. They get into cars and proceed for a tour of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Civilians watch as the cars move through streets. Press and media representatives walk in the camp area along with camp officials. They take down notes. A pile of dead bodies on the ground. The newspaper reporters question two men.
Nazi war criminals attend British Military Tribunal in Luneburg, Germany. Nazi war criminal and Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Josef Kramer is marched to a British Military Tribunal at Lunenburg. Kramer's chief assistant Fraulein Irma Grese arrives with other women. The 35 accused men and women wear identifying numbers in court sessions. Number two is German doctor Fritz Klein who is responsible for countless deaths. Corpses piled up at Bergen-Belson camp after its liberation in World War II.
Former French officials in Augsburg, Germany after their liberation towards the end of World War II. Exteriors of a building shows U.S. 7th Army Commander General Alexander Patch talking to French officials liberated by his unit. The group includes French Generals Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, French politician Paul Reynaud, former French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and Madame Caillan who is the sister of French General Charles de Gaulle.
Return of German prisoners of war to Russian soldiers, by the U.S. Army in Grieben, Germany at the end of World War II. A large river barge loaded with German prisoners returning to the east bank of the Elbe river. Russian soldiers on the east bank supervise the unloading of several barges filled with German prisoners of war.
Displaced Jewish orphans in Weimar, Germany soon after World War II. Jewish orphans who had been imprisoned at Buchenwald Concentration Camp by the Nazis, board a railroad train. Some of them saying goodbye. Allied soldiers stand around. The train pulls out as boy and girl orphan children wave from windows. Jewish flag hanging from a train window. Flowers adorn the train windows. One boy waves an American flag. Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and French, Jewish orphan prisoners liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp board a train with their belongings. Signs on a side of the train: 'Recommencons une vie nouvelle et libre'. (Our beginning of a new life in liberty). The train pulls out from the station.
Jewish orphans liberated from Nazi Buchenwald Concentration Camp leave Weimar, Germany in a train after World War II. Jewish orphans look out from the windows of the train. A Jewish flag hanging from a train window. A sign reads 'Buchenwald'. Signs hanging from the displaced persons train: "Orpheims Juifs de Buchenwald" (Orphaned youth of Buchenwald) and "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill".
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