A British officer describes the conditions at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany near end of World War II. A British Commander of Royal Artillery describes the conditions at the concentration camp. A woman doctor, a prisoner herself, describes the conditions at the female section of the camp. Other liberated women stand in the background. The commander of the Bergen-Belsen Camp, SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Kramer, is shown taken into custody by Allied troops. German Army SS (Schutzstaffel) guards taken prisoners by Allied troops.
Conditions at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany immediately after World War 2. Liberated prisoners at the camp. Corpses lying on a field show signs of brutality. Prison number tattooed on the hand of a dead prisoner. Captured German Army SS (Schutzstaffel) guards are forced by Allied troops to bury dead prisoners. German women guard and SS guards bury the dead bodies in mass graves. Allied troops on a truck. A bulldozer pushes piles of dead bodies into mass graves.
Allied air operations near end of World War 2, in Europe. Gun camera footage from a P-47M of the U.S. Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron, strafing German aircraft on the ground at an airfield in Germany. The pilot is Captain Walter L Flagg, of Conimicut, Rhode Island. He is flying P-47M, Number: 44-21140, UN-F, "Shoot You're Faded". Burning German aircraft on the ground. Aerial view of bomb damaged city.
U.S. 8th Air Force fighter aircraft operate unopposed over Germany in final days of World War 2. Gun camera footage from P-47M, of the 56th Fighter Group, 63rd Fighter Squadron, tail number 44-21112, UN-Z, "Ungly Duckling," flown by Major George E. Bostwick, of Dayton, Ohio. He strafes and destroys 5 German aircraft on the ground.
Last days of air war in Germany near end of World War 2. U.S. Airmen holding film slate, on dirt airfield, with P-47 parked behind. Slate identifies location as A-82 (Verdun Airfield, France). Gun camera footage from P-47 flown by pilot named Hunter, of the 9th Air Force, 100th Fighter Wing, 362nd Fighter Group, 377th Fighter Squadron. Footage shows strafing of German targets along lines of communication.
A bomb damaged city or town in Germany during World War II (possibly part of Berlin). Pedestrians walk on road with bridge overpass. Part of sign remains on bridge with last word "Tageblatt" (possibly referring to the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper?) A U.S. Army ambulance jeep approaches on the road. An old man walks holding a stick in hand. German civilians on a street with walking bicycles past area with rubble of bombed out buildings. United States military truck on a road. German boy walking past the truck. A man and a woman go by in a horse driven carriage. Three young boys stand in front of barbed wire and watch the cameraman closely, making no expressions.
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