Prisoners after being set free from German prison camps in Germany during World War II. Pastor Martin Niemoller smokes a pipe as he is interviewed by a soldier reporter, who takes notes as they converse. A snow covered prison building. A snow covered mountain. Capt John Alexander Elphinston, nephew of the Queen of England; Lord Las-celles, nephew of the King of England; 1st Lt John G Winant, son of the U.S. Ambassador.
Scenes of destruction in Germany at end of World War II, including Destroyed dwellings and rubble and rubbish-filled bomb craters. A U.S. soldier medic steps across a destroyed structure. German citizens line up to obtain water from a small tank trailer. A bucket being filled. A German civilian work crew laying new water pipes. A large trash heap displaying a sign in German reading: Drinking strictly forbidden. Danger from Typhus!(Trinken Strengstens verboten. Typhusgefahr!). Germans wearing gas masks as they lead horses drawing corpse-laden carts, along a road. Allied military spraying German civilians with DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) at a delousing station. They give each treated person a certificate certifying their treatment. The treated include men, women, and many mothers with their children. A nurse holds a small child as the mother is treated.
Armored fighting vehicles of the U.S. 6th Armored Division move up a road in Germany during World War 2. Vehicles including trucks, jeeps, M8 armored cars, half tracks and tanks advancing on the road. 15th armored regiment tanks in column. Large white tactical numbers synonymous with the 6th Armored Division displayed. Smoke rises from fire in the background. A T34 rocket launcher mounted on an M4 medium tank beside the road. A M4(105) tank of HQ company rounds a corner throwing up dust. A tank with a rocket launcher moves along the road. Jeeps loaded with medics move up with the armored spearhead (heading to their assembly area prior to the Rhine crossing the following day).
A month before the end of World War 2, in Europe, an American gun crew is seen with 105 mm howitzer set up under a camouflage net at the edge of a field next to a road near Lubbecke (Lübbecke), Germany. The gun crew is from the U.S. 326th Field Artillery Battalion,84th Infantry Division. The crew loads and fires several rounds. After the first round is fired, one crewman rubs the barrel where the name of their gun, "Berlin Bound," is painted. Local homes can be seen around the field. At end, a brief glimpse of the gun from the road, shows that it is set up close to several large German homes.
Concentration camp survivors of Bergen-Belsen and Nordhausen in World War II. Some victims lying inside a building and two sitting outside a tent. U.S. soldiers with red crosses on their helmets, place one survivor on a litter. Another survivor is carried to ambulance by other survivors dressed in striped prisoner uniforms. Views of emaciated concentration camp survivors. Scenes of war in Germany. Aircraft drops bombs. Tanks fire guns at buildings in cities. Rescuers carry concentration camp survivors on stretchers. Views of healthy, well-fed local German citizens who live only a few kilometers from a concentration camp, where atrocity victims were starving and suffering. Prisoners of war cooking food over fires at a prison camp. They show their bodies after surviving maltreatment at Nazi camp. Rescued prisoners being provided medical treatment. View of Lublin Castle, Poland. Rooms filled with dead bodies of forced laborers killed by the Nazi German forces. Women weep looking at the dead bodies.
U.S. officials inspect the Hadamar Prison Camp or Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany after its liberation by the U.S. Army towards the end of World War II. Men dig graves to remove corpses for autopsy. U.S. officials question Nazi prison doctors, including Adolf Wahlmann with head nurse Karl Willig, about poisons used to kill the inmates.
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