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United States military government officials collect archives stored in a cave at Aachen Archives in Monschau, Germany.

United States military government officials at Aachen Archives in Monschau, Germany during World War II. The government officials collect archives stored in a cave. German civilians show the officers the location of records. A jeep with a board 'Military Government Officials' written on it drives past on a dirt road. German civilians and the officers carry the records from the cave and load them into army trucks. A US soldier carries a pile of files and opens one of them. A looseleaf folder and the title page of the records.

Location: Monschau Germany

Date: 1944, October 14

Duration: 3 min 6 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

German Oberstleutnant Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte placed in U.S. ambulance after surrendering in World War II

German Paratroop Commander, Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte is seen following his surrender to U.S. forces at Monschau, Germany, during World War 2. He has a bandaged right arm, injured when he led a contingent of paratroopers in a nighttime drop during German Operation Stösser. He is being carried on a stretcher and placed aboard a U.S. Army field ambulance. ( Note: Von der Heydte commanded German paratroopers in the ill-fated parachute landings of Operation Stösser, on the Hautes Fagnes, Belgium, during the Ardennes counter-offensive. After attempting, for a couple of days, to return to German lines,through thickly forested area, the exhausted Von der Heydte gave himself up to the Americans at Monschau, Germany.)

Location: Monschau Germany

Date: 1944, December 23

Duration: 35 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None