German hostages at the Hotel Lago Di Braies-Brai near Dobbiaco, Italy. German Pastor Martin Niemöller (or Niemoller) with soldiers on the snow covered hotel porch. He leans against the balustrade smoking a pipe. Snow and trees in the background. General Holder, former Chief of Staff of the German Army sitting in a chair looks out of hotel window. German hostages, liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army from the Hotel, walk around in the snow on hotel grounds. Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, shows his number which was worn at all times and the cross sewed on his jacket back. French politician Andre Leon Blum, German businessman Fritz Thyssen, President of the Reichsbank Hjalmar Schact, Austrian politician Kurt Schuschnigg and Lt. Colonel Stevens chat with 88th Division soldiers. Military vehicles on the street. (World War II period).
Italian partisans execute Mussolini. Body of Mussolini on a street of the village Giulino di Mezzegra in Italy. Italian soldiers near his body. Early pictures of Mussolini from 1938 to 1943. Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in 1943. Pictures of Mussolini some time before his death. (World War II period).
Formal surrender of the German army before the Allies at headquarters of the 15th Army Group in Italy during World War II. Four star General Mark W. Clark flanked by Major General Benjamin W, Chidlaw, Lieutenant General R. L. McCreery and Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott in a war room. Motorcade of surrendering German Generals arrives and enter War Room. U.S. and German military officials on a table for signing surrender. U.S. staff officer addresses the surrender party. German officers leave in sedan after signing surrender.
Fire bombs burn on Mount Caprara, Italy during World War II. Huge clouds of smoke rise from fire bombs dropped on mountain side. Strafing and bombing of Mount Sole by U.S. bombers.
Ski troops of the U.S. Army 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division advance in the snow in Italy during World War II. The patrol's mission is to secure information in the German held sector. A few men ski around a turn in the woods and down slope. A skier comes down slope.
The U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War II. Heavy vehicular traffic jams the mountain road. Medic jeep transporting litter cases and wounded soldier through the jammed road. Soldiers aboard trucks and jeeps passing on the road.