U.S. Third Army soldiers advance in France nearing border with Germany during World War II. A map locates positions of Allied troops advancing towards Metz and toward Strasburg Germany. World War 2 United States Army soldiers of the 5th Infantry surround and bombard the French city of Metz. American soldiers surround Metz. They fire artillery on the battlefield. Smoke rises from the firing and bombardment and Metz cathedral is seen in the background. Camouflaged artillery fire against German positions. The American soldiers of the 5th Infantry advancing through sniper fire and engaged in building clearing operations in Metz. Bomb damaged buildings of Metz along the sides of a street. The soldiers searching houses. A street sign for Hermann Goering Strasse in Metz. Captured and surrendering German prisoners marching towards a stockade or prison under U.S. Army guard. A rubbled area. Bomb damaged buildings and destruction in Metz after Allied forces take control of the city.
German propaganda film with English dubbing. Wehrmacht troops enter a recaptured town during the Battle of the Bulge during winter of World War II. A map showing cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Eastern France. German Wehrmacht infantry march through the snow on the Western Front. German troops arrive at a village after the Rundstedt-Offensive allowed Germany to regain some territories from the Allied forces. German soldiers find a woman hiding in a cellar or basement. Wehrmacht troops pass by burning wreckage of American Jeeps and debris. Sign reads “Civilian travel beyond this point is forbidden” in English, French and German. German soldiers carry supplies to areas restricted to civilians. British and French prisoners of war (POWs) are captured by Germans. The prisoners of war are led away through snow covered streets. Some men carry injured prisoners. A French soldier holds a small pennant of Free France. British and Free French Prisoners of War (POWs) are marched to the rear. A destroyed church and its bell tower. A Roman Catholic relic lies among wreckage. Upturned chair and cabinet with scattered papers on the floor. A damaged statuette of Jesus Christ with hands missing. Wreckage in German homes and churches allegedly caused by United States occupation forces is shown. German Panzer tanks roll into a village, pushing aside a cart that is blocking the road.. German troops arrive with horse-drawn carts, passing by a dead white horse. Closeup view of faces of German soldiers marching through village.
German Paratroop Commander, Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte is seen following his surrender to U.S. forces at Monschau, Germany, during World War 2. He has a bandaged right arm, injured when he led a contingent of paratroopers in a nighttime drop during German Operation Stösser. He is being carried on a stretcher and placed aboard a U.S. Army field ambulance. ( Note: Von der Heydte commanded German paratroopers in the ill-fated parachute landings of Operation Stösser, on the Hautes Fagnes, Belgium, during the Ardennes counter-offensive. After attempting, for a couple of days, to return to German lines,through thickly forested area, the exhausted Von der Heydte gave himself up to the Americans at Monschau, Germany.)
German men and women work in the fields. Men pull a plow. A woman operates a plowing machine. Two women push a cart. A woman loads the cart. View of the town.
German workers bring in scrap wreckage of downed American aircraft and British aircraft for recycling of metal. SK logo on body and B on wings of a plane clearly visible. Wreckage dumped into hot furnace. Melted aluminum ingot poured into molds to form brick shaped metal bars.
A film titled 'Fighter kills'. Gun camera footage shows strafing attack against German airfield with destruction of a Messerschmitt Me-210 on the ground. Another sequence shows three Me-109s in different attacks, being struck and exploding in flight. Strafing attacks are seen against a number of barges along inland waterways and against several steam locomotives on railroads, in which their steam boiler explode. More air attacks show a twin engine German plane destroyed on the ground, and FW-190 airplanes destroyed in the air and on the ground. More strafing attacks on warehouses; waterways; and the shoot down of an Me-109 which explodes and crashes into the ground. The remainder of the clip shows numerous strafing attacks against German airfields and aircraft on the ground.