Destroyed infrastructure in Berlin after World War II. The street sign reads Unter Den Linden in Berlin. German civilians walks on the streets. Bomb damage at the subway entrance. Damaged buildings in the background.
The Allied Control Council meets in Berlin. The Allied Council Authority Building. Council members seated around a meeting table in a hall talk to each other. Colonel Marcel Rotivel, Colonel C. Vialet, Louis Koeltz, Pierre Koenig, Ambassador J de St-Hardouin, Cousel Jeasn Baudier Mr. Calvy and Captain Henry Joos represent the French delegation in the meeting. The members talk to each other and smile. (World War II period).
Revealing of Nazi atrocities at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, soon after its liberation in World War II. Soldiers and civilians standing on the field. They take out corpses different areas. Mutilated corpses on the field. Soldiers and civilians discuss amongst themselves. Bayonet and bullet wounds in the chest of the bodies of victims.
Scenes at end of World War II in Europe. Aerial view of the city of Rogensburg with its rivers. A harbor and a dockyard in the city. Bomb damaged buildings.
Views of the Schauspielhaus on the Maximilianstrasse in Munich, where the The Munich Kammerspiele (Münchner Kammerspiele) theater company is presenting a play. People entering the building. Inside,a U.S. Army Lieutenant shakes hands with the theater company director, Erich Engel, and presents him with a document, as some cast members and theater patrons watch. Closeup of Engel. Local officials converse at front of theater. American military personnel are among the audience seen in background. Scenes shift to cast members getting made up for their roles in Shakespeare's Macbeth. A man being attended by a makeup artist. A woman at her dressing table. Makeup being applied to another man. Backstage, a manager rings a warning bell for the cast and members hurry to take their positions onstage. The stage manager strikes a gong and men raise the curtain. The cast onstage performing.
At the end of World War 2, in a military-scientific endeavor called Operation Backfire, German rocket troops, under British control, built and test-fired three V-2 missiles at the former German naval station in Altenwalde, a district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony near the North Sea.. A V-2 rocket is seen igniting on its launch pad, rising into the air, and entering the stratosphere at a speed of 5 thousand kilometers per hour. Views of the rocket in flight. Finally, as the experiment ends, the V-2 shuts down and falls to the earth. (This footage is rare as it contains extra scenes not found in the official Operation Backfire Report film summary. It is also formatted for post-war German audiences.)
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