Activities at a pontoon tread way bridge across the Moselle River in Hatzenport, Germany during World War II. Armored vehicles of 4th Armored Division of the United States Army cross the bridge across the river. Mountains in the background. Vehicles loaded with soldiers drive past a tower.
Activities at a pontoon tread way Bridge across the Moselle River in Hatzenport, Germany during World War II. Various types of armored vehicles of 4th Armored Division of the United States Army cross the bridge across the river. Buildings and mountains in the background. Vehicles loaded with soldiers cross the bridge.
May Day celebrations at a prisoner of war camp in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Russian prisoners of war (POWs) hold May Day celebrations in the camp "Stalag 6" after the liberation by United States Forces. Russian soldiers carry a banner in Russian and English which reads "long live Americans which liberated us from the Nazi captivity." Portraits of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the President of the United States Harry S. Truman and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill. United States Major General Ray Edison Porter, Commanding General of the United States 75th Infantry Division ; Camp Commandant Major N. Mironof and other Russian officials on a speakers' platform. A large crowd of Russian prisoners gathered during the celebration..
May Day celebrations at prisoner of war camp "Stalag 6" in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Portraits placed at the doorway of a building. Tents at the campsite. Mountains in the background. Russian officers salute. Soldiers march past holding flags and guns. A Russian Army band plays.
May Day celebrations at prisoner of war camp "Stalag 6" in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Russian prisoners and nurses march past a review stand. A truck loaded with American ration and cigarette cartons. The ration and cigarettes are issued to the released prisoners. The prisoners carry the ration cartons.
Three German soldiers, who were captured in American uniforms, spying behind the American lines, in the Fall of 1944, are executed by a firing squad. In a separate sequence, one of several German civilians is marched toward gallows at Bruchsal prison near Karlsruhe, Germany. They were condemned by a military tribunal for killing six United States Army Air Force aviators who were being held as prisoners of war after crash landing their airplane near the end of the war. A hangman makes preparations. The German criminals are hanged.
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