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U.S. Military Police of the 3rd Armored Division, FUSA, search German prisoners in Nordhausen, Germany.

United States Military Police (MP) of the 3rd Armored Division, First U.S. Army (FUSA) search German prisoners near a roadside in Nordhausen, Germany. (World War II period).

Location: Nordhausen Germany
Date: 1945, April 11
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029076
U.S. troops mingle with German residents in Nordhausen, Germany. Views of destroyed buildings

A U.S. Army jeep drives past a road sign reading "Nordhausen, Harz." American GIs are seen mingling with German town folk in front of the Hasselee Hof. Two American soldiers talk with German girls. One soldier points to a tag with letter "P" on one girl's coat. A U.S. soldier drinks a small glass of spirits poured by a German workman, from a large wicker-covered container. U.S. soldiers wash and shave by a tank in front of a destroyed building. U.S. soldiers with army vehicles parked in the town. U.S. troops walk along sidewalk in Nordhausen. Views of many destroyed buildings. (World War II period).

Location: Nordhausen Germany
Date: 1945, April 11
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029077
U.S. Congressman Everett Dirksen and Commander John S Young visit camp Dora in Nordhausen, Germany.

Congressman Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Chicago and U.S. Commander, John S Young arrive at camp Dora (Nazi concentration camp) in Nordhausen, Germany. Dirksen and Young conduct a tour of the prison camp accompanied by U.S. Army officers. The visitors interrogate a released camp prisoner and visit German V-weapon ( V1s and V2s) manufacturing factories. (World War II period).

Location: Nordhausen Germany
Date: 1945, May 16
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029078
The opening ceremony of the Victory Railroad Bridge on Rhine river in Duisburg, Germany.

The opening ceremony of the Victory Railroad Bridge on Rhine river in Duisburg, Germany. U.S. soldiers of the 332nd Engineer Regiment stand in columns beneath the bridge. A flight of U.S. B-26 bombers passes overhead as trains loaded with U.S. troops cross the newly constructed bridge. U.S. Army Generals include Major General Leonard T Gerow, Major General Cecil R Moore, Brigadier General Clarence R Burpee, Brigadier General Ewart G Plank and Brigadier General Carl R Gray are present at the ceremony. The Generals deliver their speeches to the troops from a raised platform. Soldiers of the 332nd Engineer Regiment receive medallions. The customs towers of the old Rheinhausen -Duisburg bridge can be seen still standing on the opposite bank. (World War II period).

Location: Duisburg Germany
Date: 1945, May 12
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029079
Nordhausen concentration camp victims, Germany.

German civilians carry corpses of prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany . Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. Sick and dying prisoners carried on stretchers to ambulances by U.S. medics and Military Police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. Two emaciated prisoners seated amidst rubble. Scenes of freed prisoners eating and talking. Prisoners and corpses inside the prison barracks. A starved prisoner eats an egg. Decaying cadavers of victims lying on filthy prison floors. German civilians carrying shovels move towards a common burial ground. German soldiers look at an open burial pit filled with corpses of victims. (World War II period).

Location: Nordhausen Germany
Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029083
Scenes soon after liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

View of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Cremation ovens used to execute the prisoners. A German guard held at gun point by the American troops. Liberated American speaks, surrounded by a group of prisoners. He is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack H. Taylor of Hollywood, California. Filmed by Lt. Col. George C. Stevens, he says that in October 1944 he was the first allied officer to drop into Austria. He says he was captured December 1, 1944 by the Gestapo, and severely beaten. He details his imprisonment time in Austria and then at Mauthausen. He shows insignia and dog tags of two American soldiers who were executed in a gas chamber of the camp by the Germans. He details the multiple methods used by the Germans to kill prisoners, including shooting, gas chamber, beating, exposure in the snow for 48 hours with cold water thrown on them, starvation, dogs, and pushing off a hundred foot cliff. He thanks the American 11th Armored Division for rescuing them. (World War II period).

Location: Mauthausen Austria
Date: 1945, May 11
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029084
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