United States 90th Infantry Division occupies Chambois in France during World War 2. Soldiers patrol in streets of Chambois. An M4 medium tank parked in the street. Soldier on alert, advances in front of a building. View of war wrecked buildings with smoke in the background. Group of soldiers stands next to an M-10 tank destroyer.
As film starts, German civilians are seen running along a street in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. There is no sign of any war damage in this particular area. Next, a young man with an injured arm is helped up from the pavement by German civilians and U.S. Army soldier of the occupying 69th Infantry Division. One of the civilians helps the young man bandage his arm. A group of U.S. Army troops gather around two medics tending to a person lying on the pavement. Scene shifts back again to the young man with the injured arm who seems unable to stand up. A U.S. Army soldier re-bandages his arm. View from a vehicle driving along a street, passing American infantry walking along a sidewalk, past others sitting against buildings. Several U.S. Sherman tanks are gathered along with American infantrymen, in a square in the city. The tank crews fire machine guns and their tank guns as the infantrymen fire their rifles at remaining German resisters and snipers (As film starts, German civilians are seen running along a street in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War II in Europe. There is no sign of any war damage. Next, a young man with an injured arm is helped up from the pavement by German civilians and U.S. Army soldier. One of the civilians helps him bandage his arm. A group of U.S. Army troops gather around two medics tending to a person lying on the pavement. Scene shifts back again to the Young man with the injured arm who seems unable to stand up. A U.S. Army soldier re-bandages his arm. View from a vehicle driving along a street, passing American infantry walking along a sidewalk, past others sitting against buildings. Several U.S. Sherman tanks are gathered along with American infantrymen, in a square in the city. The tank crews fire machine guns and their tank guns as the infantrymen fire their rifles at German resisters and snipers (unseen). View from moving vehicle of civilians standing on sidewalk and street with some rubble on it. They wave white cloths and some smile. More views of American infantry patrolling a sidewalk and street with a Sherman tank in the background. A man waving a white cloth crosses a square toward the camera. A pair of Sherman tanks move on a street toward the camera. More brief views of infantry patrolling and civilians with anything white they can wave. A pair of Sherman tanks move slowly on a street toward the camera, past more German civilians waving makeshift white flags. View from moving vehicle of civilians standing on sidewalk and street with some rubble on it. They wave white cloths and some smile. More views of American infantry patrolling a sidewalk and street with a Sherman tank in the background. A man waving a white cloth crosses a square toward the camera. A pair of Sherman tanks move on a street toward the camera. More brief views of infantry patrolling and civilians with anything white they can wave. A pair of Sherman tanks move slowly on a street toward the camera, past more German civilians waving makeshift white flags.
Aftermath of the Gardelegen Massacre: German civilians dig grave for Nazi atrocity victims in Gardelegen, Germany. Mutilated and burned bodies of one thousand political deportee prisoners, including Russians, Poles and French, in and around a large barn. United States Army Infantry troops view and inspect the bodies, and supervise German civilians being forced to dig mass graves for the victims, who had been transported to the barn from the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and the Hannover-Stöcken Concentration Camp during World War 2.
View of German Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. Complete change of scene shows a torpedo being loaded on a German Neger torpedo-carrying craft for a demonstration at Flender-Werke in Lübeck, Germany,during World War 2. Designed by Richard Mohr (whose surname means blackamoor),this craft cannot submerge but runs low, awash in the water. It is seen moving that way in the water and firing its torpedo. Back at the base, the operator, wearing an iron cross, climbs out of the craft. (Note: Not surprisingly, this little torpedo-carrier was sometimes called a human torpedo.)
View of an industrial site in Europe. German soldiers seen during a pause in fighting against British forces during World War 2. A German soldier with net over his steel helmet look intently from a protected position next to a building. Two other German soldiers are seen in a protected enclosure, manning a machine gun. A third soldier, also on the lookout holds a rifle. Another, looking weary and needing a shave, sits in a bunkered spot. Successive closeups of several clean-shaven soldiers, followed by one of an obviously battle-weary veteran soldier.
Map showing Crimea and surroundings, including Dnieper, Donez, and Don Rivers, and cities of Kiev, Kertch (aka Kerch), Novorossiysk, Stalino (aka Donetsk), and Sevastopol. German soldiers looking from a high point of land overlooking narrow body of water in vicinity of the Isthmus of Perekop, in World War 2. Romanian troops in summer uniforms with short pants, enter motor boats and navigate narrow waterways lined with tall grasses and shrubs. A shell or bomb explodes throwing water high in the air. The Romanian troops beach their boats and rush ashore. Soviet shellfire strikes a beached boat which explodes in smoke. The Romanians set up a machine gun and fire it with one man pulling the belt ammunition through as another feeds it. More scenes of motorboats speeding through the narrow waterways. Soldiers with boats at a small dock.
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