Description: I. 'Berlin Today': ruins (the Sportpalast, and around Brandenburg Gate); demolition and reconstruction (Military Government offices, newspapers, transport).
II. US troops in France make aircraft jettison fuel-tanks into canoes for children, hold a regatta and distribute Coca Cola.
III. Construction of an airfield on Okinawa: good coverage of removal of village, recruitment of local labour etc.
IV. Enforcement of curfew laws: violators brought before official.
V. Reconstruction of French industry (textile plant in Lyons, Paris Renault plant, tyre factory).
VI. UNRRA: conference in London, home for (Hungarian) children in Oberammergau.
VII. The A-bomb: film of New Mexico test explosion, the Oak Ridge, Tennessee research establishment and community, and of Professor Ernest Lawrence.
VIII. Education in Germany. Ruined schools; reconstruction work in Ulm (children participate); reopening of a school in Hamburg (concludes with official's long speech to camera).