Former prisoners seen after being set free from Nazi prison camps in Germany at end of World War 2. The prisoners shake hands after being set free. The prisoners include Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, Baroness Schuschnugg, German industrialist Fritz Thyssen and Baron Schell. The Baroness stands with a young girl and a man as she smiles after being set free. Other prisoners include Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand Gabriel Piquet, former Prime Minister of Hungary Miklos Kallay and Commanding officer of Greek Army General Alexandros Papagos. German Army General Franz Halder and his wife after being set free. Prince Leopold raises his coat collar to reveal his prisoner number. German General Franz Halder stands with his wife.
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.
German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)
A film dramatizes the rise of Nazi party and corresponding life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. A Nazi flag being hoisted. A German couple seated. Two men talk in a street. A Nazi brownshirt harangues civilians on a street. People listen to him and do not unite to object. Karl, a farmer, listens. He tills a piece of land. Nazi officers close down a shop. A man works in an ammunition factory as a war production worker. He returns home from work. His children are eating food. German equipment and troops on advance. The ammunition factory worker joins the German Army and leaves for the war front. He kisses his wife as he bids goodbye. German troops loaded onto a truck advance. Artillery is fired and infantry advances ahead. German troops fight against the Allies in Stalingrad, Soviet Union and Normandy, France.
A film dramatizes the life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. Dead bodies of German civilians who joined the army during World War II. Graves of German soldiers. Two men seated on a bench talk. One of them says to the other that they do have freedom no matter even if they are a minority group. He talks about dignity of the individual.
Japanese soldiers on Leyte in the Philippines during World War II. Explosions occur in a jungle. Japanese soldiers in prone position behind bushes. The soldiers advance and charge ahead. An officer briefs lined up soldiers. Bags on the backs of the soldiers. A map of Leyte island.
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