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General Patton's Third Army captures Metz and Allies assault the German Siegfried Line in World War II.

The Stars and Stripes headlines 'Patton captures Metz,' during World War 2, in France. Allied forces assault the German Siegfried Line. Batteries of U.S. rocket launchers. Massed battery of U.S. Sherman tanks firing their guns. U.S. troops firing mortars close to buildings. Large numbers of German prisoners of war. A sherman flame thrower tank in operation. U.S. infantry walking through the Siegfried Line. U.S. heavy artillery and tanks in operation.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024440
U.S. troops liberate American prisoners of war and enter a German concentration camp in World War II

U.S. troops liberate American prisoners of war at German camp during World War 2. Lieutenant Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley, together with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a U.S. Major General, walk through a liberated German concentration camp, followed by numerous other officers. The grounds are strewn with bodies of emaciated dead prisoners. Some are stacked up like cordwood. Some dead are carried off. Survivors are given medical attention and placed in ambulances or trucks. German civilians plundering shops and warehouses, and carrying off goods on carts.German women fighting over goods. Old man sleeping in street.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024453
United States and Soviet soldiers meet at the Elbe River during World War II.

U.S. flag being lowered as bugler sounds and narrator alludes to the death of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, near the end of World War II. American troops and tanks rolling through German cities idenfified by narrator as Madeburg, Nuremberg and Leipsig, at end of the war. U.S. troops cleaning out last vestiges of resistance in street fighting. Numerous German citizens lining sidewalks in city and waving white flags. On April 25, 1945, U.S. Army Second Lieutenant William Robertson with soldiers Frank Huff, James McDonnell and Paul Staub, meet Soviet Lieutenant Alexander Silvashko and several Soviet soldiers on the remnants of the Elbe bridge of Torgau. A U.S. Army Brigadier General mingling with Soviet officers. On April 26,1945, Major General Emil F. Reinhardt Commander of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division, walks with Soviet Major General Ruskovof the Soviet 58th Guards Rifle Division near Torgau. They are accompanied by other U.S. and Soviet officers. U.S. and Soviet officers exchange mutual salutes. U.S. and Soviet soldiers mingle, as a Soviet soldier plays accordian and some drink toasts, smoke cigarettes, and pose together. View of the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg where a U.S. soldier is seen near the huge Swastika atop the Zeppelin Grandstand. Flashback views of Nazi rally there. Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler and Viktor Lutze at the rally. Three American soldiers walking along the same walkway in the rally grounds. The Swastika atop the grandstand being blown up by American troops.

Date: 1945, April 25
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024454
U.S. Information Agency informs people abroad about American life and culture through radio, libraries, concerts, and exhibits

Worlwide activities of the U.S. Information Agency. Four men in a bar in Italy. Narrator refers to European apprehension right after the war about America and the atom. The Italian men are polled and now understand about peaceful uses of atomic energy. Maps showing 200 U.S. Information Agency posts in 80 countries. An "Amerika Haus"in a major German city. Germans enter and peruse books and newspapers. An "Amerika Hause" book mobile (autobucherei) drives into a German village. Local people enter and browse the bookshelves. A boy selects a book entitled "Christoph Kolumbus" (Christopher Columbus). A german policeman perusing a book. A man walking out with several books. A discussion group, under auspices of USIA, gathered around a table. A concert with orchestra and chorus (Conductor appears to be Wilhelm Furtwängler, of the Berlin Philharmonic, who died in 1954, so this is likely a shot from 1953-1954 range). A sign on building in Berlin reads: "RIAS" (Radio in American Sector). A German speaking radio announcer in RIAS broadcasting. People visiting the "Family of Man" exhibit which originated in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and shown in 37 countries abroad, under USIA sponsorship.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024535
German Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in World War I

German Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria walking with uniformed military staff officers behind them in World War 1.

Date: 1916
Duration: 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025511
Nazi Brownshirt (SA) leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess. Destroyed World War 1 German munitions and aircraft.

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess speaking as scenes of destroyed German munitions and aircraft (from World War I) are shown. Large fleet of German biplane warplanes seen parked at an airfield. Many have engines running and propellers turning, and some have begun to taxi out of the formation. Circa mid 1930s.

Date: 1937
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675026658