Free French partisans inspected by General Philippe Leclerc in Paris, France during liberation of Paris. Several soldiers with guns walk in a line on a road. A boy on a bicycle with the soldiers. The walkway near the road lined with trees. A motor vehicle on a road. Buildings in view. Trees on either side of the road. Smoke rises near the building. Trees in view. A tank and some soldiers on the road. French guards in a line on a side of the path. An officer salutes. Two men in front of a motor vehicle salute. General Philippe Leclerc inspects the guards. The General talks to the officer. General Philippe Leclerc holding a swagger stick in his hand as he walks with other officers. (World War II period).
French troops operating in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, France, during World War 2. Burning buildings in village. The spire of a church. Smoke rising from the burnt areas. A man directs several boys to help fight the fire. Village residents fighting fires with buckets of water. Colonial North African infantry of the French 1st Army accompanied by an M4 Sherman tank on street outside gated official-looking building. They enter through gates cautiously. Elsewhere, a local Frenchman pours glasses of white wine for American soldiers sitting in a jeep. Scene shifts to the French troops, along with a cameraman, who are sheltering under sniper fire, near building. Their M4 tank (named "Marne") also provides some cover. Momentary glimpse of German soldiers taken prisoner.
American soldiers of th 90th Infantry Divisionat, at the fortress of Guentrange (Fort Obergentringen) in Thionville, France, during World War 2. The town of Thionville. A cluster of buildings in the town. Smoke rising from certain areas in the town. High walls of the main barracks of the fortress south of the Maginot Line in Thionville, built by the Germans when they occupied Lorraine after 1871. An iron palisade in front of the main barracks of the fortress. Trees near the iron fence. People walk along a pathway beside the fence. American soldiers at the fortress. A couple of soldiers using a field telephone. The soldiers sit outside the entrance of the fortress and clean rifles. Krupp 105 mm guns at the fortress.
An Anglo-American Nazi internment camp in Vittel, France. The Grand Hotel in Vittel which was an internment camp by occupying German forces. The hotel building with a lawn in front. A barbed wire fencing around the hotel. Allied flags on a small bridge in the camp. Internees walking on the bridge. Women looking through the fence in the camp. Men and women seated and standing behind the wire fence. Two American soldiers outside the fence. Men and women smiling. Children among the group. A woman with Punch and Judy dolls in her hands. Other women behind her. A few men and women with children near the bridge. (World War II period).
An Anglo-American Nazi internment camp in Vittel, France. A family of a man, a woman and a small boy in the Anglo-American Nazi German internment camp at the Grand Hotel in Vittel. Other internees behind them. The small boy in the woman's arms. Men and women behind them smile. Liberated internees in a group on a pathway. A person in the front waves the U.S. flag. The group moves along the pathway waving the U.S. flag. A garden beside the pathway. A group of the Little Sisters of the Poor nuns move in a group from a building. Men and women stand on either side of the path. The group of nuns in black habit.
French civilians celebrate the liberation of France in Normandy during World War II. A girl with shaved head stands in front of a vehicle. The girl with a swastika sign painted on her forehead. Several men and women beside the vehicle. Another girl with shaved head has a swastika sign painted on her forehead. The girls with the swastika signs with several other women. A swastika flag. A tank treads over the flag. The swastika flag set on fire and flames rise. A few French boys defacing posters on the side of a building.
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