Anti aircraft gun emplacement near gasoline storage area in Wegberg, Germany. A crew member looks through binoculars. A sign reads '450th Quartermaster Gas Supply Co.' Filled gasoline cans being loaded onto trucks. Trucks loaded with gasoline cans move on the road. A sign reads 'Speed Limit- 20 M.P.H.' A sign reads ' Wegberg, Arsbeck, Beeck' and gives road distance. Guard stops a truck entering the area and checks it. Trucks pass an armed guard and an antiaircraft gun on road in the storage area. Long rows of gasoline cans in storage area.
Extremely dense fog covers London, England. Limousine enters Buckingham Palace grounds, barely visible due to London fog caused by coal burning. Double decker buses drive through a round-about shrouded in dense fog. An airplane lands on an airstrip lit by fire contained within trenches. The fire lights the airstrip and helps to lift the fog on the field. (World War II period).
Rail service on a fog day in the United Kingdom (so called "London fog" caused by coal burning). A steam locomotive train arrives in rail yard. In railway station, attendent writes 'Fog service today' in chalk, on a black board. The rail track in view amidst fog. A man on the side of the rail track removes small explosive warning devices from a box. He fastens a device to the rail with wire and then manually moves operates a rail switch. A man inside a control room pumps a large lever as train passes. Locomotives seen passing over explosive warning devices and detonating them. View of rail car destroyed in fog accident.
General Charles De Gaulle at the Paris Victory Parade in Paris, France after World War II. The French troops lined on the path. Buildings in view. Huge crowd on the sides of the road. Army band and the guards on one side. General Charles De Gaulle arrives at the ceremony with other officers. The General walks along the road with other American and French officers. A man sets a camera on a tripod stand. The General awards medals to officers. Another man takes pictures with a camera held in a hand. Officers look on. Troops in rows on the other side of the road. Few officers stand at the back and watch the event. Few buildings in view.
Evidence of holocaust atrocities in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. German civilians in Gardelegen Germany carrying crosses for 1,100 fresh graves for victims of the holocaust at Gardelegen. The German citizens walking on the streets carrying the crosses. Buildings in view. Scenes from various liberated concentration camps in Germany. A crowd around a liberated concentration camp building. The Allied army soldiers enter a gate of a camp. Soldiers enter through gates of several different camps with sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on Dachau Concentration Camp gate. Scenes of happy liberated inmates at various camps. Two men walk in front of a crowd entering a liberated camp. Liberated concentration camp inmates in striped prison uniforms smile and some wave. Some of them appear to be very young men or older boys. Men cheering. U.S. Army soldier leans head out of watch tower and looks down on concentration camp field and barracks. Freed inmates around and on top of a concentration camp barracks building. Allied soldiers escort horse drawn wagon with potatoes in it through camp as inmates scramble to gather food. Starved man on a street scraping spilled food of some kind from the ground and eating it. Soldiers bring out body of liberated prisoners from barracks and dungeons. A soldier carries an injured person in a stretcher. Men carry emaciated and injured victims into a vehicle. A victim man lying on the ground. Physicians provide medical aid to victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Doctors examine a man, a woman, and several starving child victims.
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other officials in the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. military officials enter the gates of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The officials walk on a path inside the camp. U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower with other officials inside the camp. Inmates who had survived in the camp demonstrate a torture device where they are stretched across a wooden platform. General Eisenhower and officials watch. The ground covered with the dead bodies in some areas. Arch Bishop of Canterbury and other church dignitaries visit the camp and inspect. The civilians of the Allied Investigation Commission inspect the camp. The officers walk in front of the camp. They visit the dungeons, crematories, and there is a sign beside a rack of bunks: "5 men with operations in each box". Dead bodies of concentration camp victims piled up. The group of officials view. The officials inside the dungeons with piles of dead bodies of human beings. The remains of the bodies in an enclosure where they were burned in furnaces. The officials stand outside the enclosure.
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