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 troops participate in a victory parade in Rangoon, Burma towards the end of World War II. The troops of the United States, British forces of Australia, New Zealand and China are gathered on a grassy field. They stand in formation and parade on the field. An artillery gun is fired in honor. Dignitaries review the parade.
A film titled 'Here We Come' shows U.S. troops during World War II. The troops travel by trucks to a building in Europe. A sign reads 'Incoming Troops Report Room-5 This Building'. The troops pile out of trucks and take showers. A sign reads '89th Bn. Clothing Issue'. The troops get new clothing. They receive money. The soldiers deposit their weapons other than pistols.
U.S. troops prepare to embark for the United States from France at the conclusion of their service in Europe during World War II, but before the end of the war, so it is regarded as a 30 day furlough. Soldiers stand in line and receive awards and recognitions for their service. The troops go through a chow line and eat food. Soldiers march and smiling U.S. Army soldiers board waiting trucks. The soldiers carry barracks bags as they board troop transport ships, embarking on the voyage back to America. Narrator notes that they will still be needed to help in the fight against the Japanese.
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's declaration of war on Britain during World War II. A crowd assembled in Venice, Italy to hear the dictator's declaration of war. Dictator Benito Mussolini speaks from a balcony flanked by banners and large fasces (symbol of Fascism). Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie saluting in Ethiopia before Italian annexation of the country.
The Potsdam Conference in Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman joins Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower in a review of American troops in Frankfurt am Main city along the Main River in Germany. Exterior of the Cecilienhof in Potsdam. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin return to the Potsdam Conference. Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Attlee, Truman and others seated around a round table.
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