Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Victor Herskovics, a Jewish teacher of German language and history from Prague, Czechoslovakia interviewed at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He tells how he was badly treated in prisons and concentration camps after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. (World War II period).
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Victor Herskovics, a Jewish teacher of German language and history from Czechoslovakia interviewed at Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany. He talks about how he was badly treated in prisons and concentration camps after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. He states that he is the only person alive from his family. He thanks the American Army for liberating him from the concentration camp in Buchenwald. (World War II period).
Welcome of Americans by Czech civilians in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, in final days of World War 2, in Europe. Czech civilians welcome and wave to the U.S. Army forces as they pass through the city streets. Buildings seen in the background. Two Czech policemen standing side by side smilng. German prisoners are marched through Pilsen. A horse cart moves along with the prisoners. Crowd boos them and shakes fists at German POWs. U.S. Army GI kisses a blonde Czech girl. Crowd cheers Americans. Tanks rolls through city. Crowd cheers happily.
Czech civilians welcome the arrival of United States Army troops into Pilsen, Czechoslovakia during World War II. Czech peasant girls in folk costumes rides on American vehicles. Crowds gather along either side of the streets. Czech citizens cheer and greet United States soldiers and vehicles as they pass by. Buildings seen in the background.
Dead and dying German soldiers, killed by Czech civilians, are seen on roads and fields in Pilsen,Czechoslovakia, a month before the end of World War II in Europe, after the city's liberation by Allied forces. A couple of the soldiers are still alive and moving. Bucolic Czech countryside seen. American soldiers and Czech civilians moving about on roads. Several surviving German soldiers sits on a fence in a field for processing as Prisoners of War (POWs) by the American soldiers. Wounded and dead German soldiers are transported on hoods of American jeeps. A Czech civilian man turns over a dead German soldier's body to identify it, and writes a notation on a pad.
U.S. Commandant-General of the 5th Division Major General Albert E. Brown arrives in Protivin. Czechoslovakia. Major General Albert E. Brown arrives by plane and greeted by Russian officers. Officers get into cars parked on a field. Commandant-General Major Brown and other officers leave in cars.