Displaced people in Bergzabern, Germany a about a month before the end of World War 2 in Europe. .Film begins showing destroyed buildings and rubble in the town. A long extension ladder is raised in an open lot. Many people are gathered in a street and in a large field. Some in the field are cooking meals. An American army truck is parked in a vacant lot, next to a covered elevated platform. Closeup of people obtaining water from a pipe at the platform. A large number of people assembling in a field where others are dispensing soup from large buckets and distributing other foods. Milk is being ladled from large milk cans into containers held by recipients. Closeup of a young man eating from a large bowl.
British military headquarters in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Koenig's Hotel (Hotel Königshof , Am Kurpark 5, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) in Bad Oeynhausen is now the headquarter of the British Army of the Rhine (B.A.O.R.). Vehicles and soldiers move on a road in front of the building. British headquarter hotel entrance. Two military policemen stand guard and salute as British officers enter and leave the building. The Union Jack flag fluttering. The hotel roof with a broken mast holding a crown. The name of the hotel 'Badehotel Konigshof' is over the main entrance.
Life of military dependents in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Sign: 'Bad Nauheim Speed Limit'. A dispensary building. Woman walks outside the dispensary as she pushes a baby carriage. Sign: 'Bad Nauheim Community Dispensary'. Sick call Schedule sign. Street showing type of houses dependents live in. Sign on a gate of a house redas "Col. Walter F. Parthin" and "M/Sgt. H.J. Ros".
A British military area in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. A main street with British military guards at a barrier enclosing a headquarters and checking up traffic. Various views including name "Bad Oeynhausen" in the background. A British military guard checking papers of entrants. A notice reads "Fraternization Forbidden in this area". Building of "Restaurant zum Lindenhof" in background. German people get off a rail tram. A signs shows directions to "Bad Oeynhausen" and to "Herford".
Film starts showing animated map of American forces driving East from France and British forces.including the 53rd Infantry Division, from Belgium toward the Rhein (Rhine) River in Germany. Allied infantry and armor gathering on a street in France. Closeups of some soldiers in berets mingling with American troops. Left shoulder of a soldier with Engineers patch. Another with white cross in white circle. American troops entering Bad Godesburg, where many white flags are displayed. An M4A3 Sherman tank moves along a street. "Adolf Schmitz" written on building in background U.S. infantry and armor moving through the town cautiously subject to lingering sniper fire. Views of signs identifying shops and commercial establishments in the town. U.S. soldiers silhouetted looking out of an upper story of a building where they are firing a machine gun towards a sniper's nest. German soldier surrendering and being searched briefly. A wounded person being carried on a litter by two civilian men, accompanied by a woman wearing a Red Cross armband. Scene shifts to road in countryside, clogged with long line of German prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard. Closeups of some of the prisoners and guards. Views of the Rhein river with many bridges destroyed by retreating German forces. Closeup of an American tank crew in their M4A3 Sherman tank. The Bridge at Remagen, with a sign on it reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy of the 9th ARMD Div." American soldiers guarding the bridge against air attack man an M33 twin mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun. Another gun crew firing an M45 quad mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun at attacking German aircraft attempting to destroy the Remagen bridge. Another antiaircraft gun defending the bridge. View from some distance of bomb bursting near the bridge, raising a geyser of water. Back at the bridge, itself, American infantry and vehicles continue to pour across it. Closeups of some and of soldiers in the vehicles. An M4A3 Sherman tank completing the crossing and moving on the German side of the river. Infantry walking along the roadside.
Soviet Forces battling in Berlin during 1945, in World War 2, employ tanks and heavy machine guns. A Soviet soldier herds two German prisoners from a building. Groups of German soldier prisoners struggle through rubble as they are led from buildings, under guard. Soviet tanks firing as they pass a church building. A Soviet heavy gun being fired point blank on a Berlin street. Buildings on fire. Soviet soldiers firing artillery field pieces. Views of destroyed and damaged German military aircraft on and in hangars of an airfield. Soviet Ilyushin II aircraft land on the airfield. Closeup of distressed German General rubbing his eyes. Flashback in time to 1943, in World War II. Field Marshal Hermann Goering is seen reviewing flyers of a German Luftwaffe (Air Force) unit. A Junkers Ju 52 trimotor aircraft lands and parks on an airfield. Italian leader Benito Mussolini steps from the aircraft after his rescue from imprisonment by the Italian Government at the Hotel Campo Imperatore. He is personally welcomed by Adolf Hitler, who had ordered the mission to rescue him. Change of time, again, to 1945, when Berlin, Germany is attacked by Forces of the Soviet Union. Closeup of a despairing German General. Scenes of utter destruction as Soviet troops batter Berlin, Germany with artillery. Soviet soldier steps down from his tank and gives a Soviet General a handgun, which he pockets and then leads a group of Soviet officers into a building
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