Rubble spread all over after heavy bombing of Lisieux, France. Rescue workers search through ruins with wrecked buildings in the background. Residents of bombed out city hide in cellars. Women and children in cellars.
Liberation of France from German troops during World War II. A man carries a Red Cross flag as he walks on a streets amidst firing between FFI ( French Forces of Interiors ) and German troops. Injured being carried away on litters. Men eat in a mess and get their beards shaved. Men and women work with spades to erect cobblestone barricades on streets. Sand bags stacked in a pile to erect a barricade. Men check ammunition. Military truck and a car being pushed by men. Men work on the cars.
On the liberation of France from German troops during World War II. A group of FFI ( French Forces of Interior ) men round up male collaborators and one woman collaborationist, accused of assisting the Germans, and load them into a FFI truck. Leaders of FFI. Dead bodies of civilians lying on the grounds of the Fort de Romainville which served as a Nazi prison and transit camp. They had been massacred by German forces.
Liberation of France from German troops during World War II. Smoke rises from behind a building. Injured FFI ( French Forces of Interior ) men on streets. Gravely wounded being looked evaluated and receiving medical care after an explosion. Wounded and injured being loaded onto trucks for medical aid. Street fighting between FFI and German troops. French civilians in FFI peering around a corner and firing at German positions. Collaborationists being rounded up and captured German prisoners of war are escorted by armed FFI. German tanks captured by FFI men. Injured men being helped by others. Wounded being carried for medical aid. Prisoners of war.
Liberation of France from German troops during World War II. A FFI ( French Forces of Interior ) men fires at German troops in the middle of the road. He dies while fighting. Two men carry him to the side of the street. German prisoners of war. Men loaded on Allied tanks and trucks enter the city of Paris as people give them a warm welcome. French tri color and American flags hoisted on a building. A man carries away a German sign.
Liberation of France from German troops during World War II. Allied soldiers look at a map and plan the strategy to fight against the German troops in Paris. Red Cross flags in the background. Allied troops loaded on tanks and half ton trucks as they advance to counter the Germans. Dead soldiers. Heavy firing takes place. Intense street fighting. Tanks move past the Arc de Triomphe as Allies rout the resisting Germans from the area. German prisoners of war enter a prison. Prisoners made to march.
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