After the end of World War II in Germany. A five star car passes with other cars parked in the background at Gatow air field in Berlin, Germany. Secretary James F Byrnes shakes hands with civilians and Generals at Gatow air field. An officer directs C-54 aircraft to parking place. President Harry S Truman gets down from the plane and talks to Russian officers. President's car with the American flag on it. President drives away in his car. As presidential motorcade drives away from the air field a photographer takes pictures with a United States plane on the side. Officers lined up in attention for review by the President. President Truman reviews the troops. A military band plays as a C-54 plane taxis in the background. Troops stand in attention while Star Spangled Banner is played. Presidential motorcade drives away from the airfield. Flags of various countries on fuselage of President's C-54. People, a truck and a jeep at the air base.
Aftermath of the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Aerial views of a large Siemens factory damaged by Allied bombings. Anhalter Bahnhof (Askanischer Pl. 6, 10963 Berlin, Germany) railroad station shows damage caused by Allied bombings. Unter Den Linden and Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). Marshalling yards in the city and the Reichstag building.
Concentration camps in Germany. Male survivors at Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany. Red Cross trucks from Switzerland arrive at the camp. Male survivors leave the camp. Bodies of dead inmates lay on ground with nationality and prison number tattooed on their stomachs. Male survivors from various European countries. Starved and feeble bodies of the victims. Dead bodies piled up outside the crematory. Pile of dead onto a truck. One of the weapons used by the SS guards upon the prisoners. A number of ovens at the crematory. The name of the firm on the oven door. A heap of bone ash. (World War II period).
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Victor Herskovics, a Jewish teacher of German language and history from Prague, Czechoslovakia interviewed at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He tells how he was badly treated in prisons and concentration camps after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. (World War II period).
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Victor Herskovics, a Jewish teacher of German language and history from Czechoslovakia interviewed at Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany. He talks about how he was badly treated in prisons and concentration camps after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. He states that he is the only person alive from his family. He thanks the American Army for liberating him from the concentration camp in Buchenwald. (World War II period).
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Otto Feuer, a Jewish internee from Hamburg states how he has been in concentration camps for past six years. He thanks the American Army for liberating them from the concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. He considers himself lucky for having been liberated after so many years of captivity. Other internees in the background.
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