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Views of Auschwitz concentration camp and liberating Soviet soldiers near the end of World War 2
Auschwitz Concentration camp of the Nazi Germans in Auschwitz, Poland during World War II. Women and children prisoners of the camp walk along the barbed wire fencing. Male prisoners and survivors of the camp. Snow covered barracks and buildings. A map of the gas chamber and other parts of the camp. Women and children prisoners at the camp. Electrically charged barbed wire fencing. Torture equipment at the camp. Old and sick women inmates look out from windows and talk to each other inside women's barracks. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229.
Tanks and artillery patrol the streets of Warsaw during General Bor's uprising against German forces in Warsaw.
German General Hermann Balck with his aides on the Russian Front in World War 2. Change of scene to German Panther tanks and artillery on patrol in the streets of the Praga district of Warsaw Poland during the abortive uprising against German garrison in the city (led by General Tadeusz Komorowski also known as General Bór-Komorowski, or as General Bor). Mortars and flamethrowers used against the rebellious Polish resistance movement during the Warsaw Uprising. Smoke and explosions. Soldiers on grass. Wrecked buildings in view. Rubble in streets of Warsaw. Fire set in buildings by German soldiers using flame throwers. Unknown locations in city could include the Warsaw Ghetto. NOTE: this content can also be seen with German narration in clip 65675080271 .
Allied forces prepare for D-Day, also known as 'Operation Overlord' (WW2)
'Eve of Battle' depicts the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Slave labor from Nazi Germany-invaded countries construct Atlantic Wall. German artillery and fortifications in the Atlantic Wall. Nazi German soldiers marching in groups. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shake hands with Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin sit together during the Tehran Conference in December 1943. Exiled Allied leaders such as General Charles de Gaulle of France, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Dr. Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia inspect Allied troops. Various Allied troops from Poland, Norway, England, United States, and Czechoslovakia prepare to launch an invasion in France. Eisenhower along with other officers plans the European invasion. Allied ships and aircraft on their way to Europe. Allied bombers drop bombs over Nazi German U-boats. Naval battle begins and explosions occur, smoky docks. In England war supplies unloaded. Supplies include weapons, military equipment, and food. A tank and locomotive trains being loaded into a ship bound for Europe. Allied aircraft take off at night. A man directs an aircraft taking off. Allied bombers bombard German targets resulting into fiery flare in Europe. British children playing jump rope as a supply train pass by in the background. Tanks and fighter planes transported by train. Supply boxes unloaded and stacked for transport to the battle front.
German spy Stephan Kortas is executed by Military Policemen and is carried away covered in white sheet in Toul France.
Execution of German spy Stephan Kortas in Toul, France during World War 2. A soldier's uniform near a tree. A box lies near the tree. U.S. Military Policemen (MPs) walk across the items. Military Policemen (MPs) bring German spy Stephan Kortas to the execution point. From Poland, Kortas was drafted in the German Army and sent behind American lines posing as a Polish slave laborer, where he was caught by U.S. Army forces. A clergyman offers prayers for Kortas. The face of the spy is covered using a cloth. The MPs tie the legs and hands of the spy. Firing squad fires at Stephan Kortas from a distance. Kortas' body leans forward and falls to the ground. The marks of gun shots on the chest of the German spy. MPs pick up the dead body, cover it with a white sheet and carry it on a stretcher.
American flyers who escaped from Swiss internment during World War II
view of a building in Annecy, France, during World War 2. Flags of Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and Poland displayed together. A busy street with many bicyclists. A truck driving on a road carrying a group of American flyers who have escaped internment in Switzerland. The flyers, in civilian clothes, smile and wave at the camera from the back of the truck. Change of scene to front view of the truck arriving at Annecy airfield. some flyers are riding on the fenders and running boards of the truck. view of German prisoners of war clearing stones from a field near the airfield runway. A C-47 transport aircraft landing on the field, in background. The German POWs pose for the camera. Cyclists on a dirt road near the airfield, pause to watch a C-47 taking off. Children on bicycles wave to the camera. View again, of German prisoners clearing stones from the field. Local children looking to the sky for airplanes.
Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church present a plaque to Dr. Ludwig Fischer in Warsaw.
Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church assemble in Warsaw. Bishops enter the venue. They are greeted and welcomed by Nazi German politician Ludwig Fischer and other officers. The Bishops read from a plaque. Lit candles in the room. The Bishops present the plaque to Ludwig Fischer, and he accepts.