Hanging of a Nazi war criminal in Bruchal, Germany, a former German sergeant who was tried by the U.S. 7th Army court and found guilty of killing an American aviator who bailed out of his plane over Germany. Nazi prisoner approaches gallows guarded by American MPs (Military Police). Body of condemned being dropped through trap. Body being removed from beneath gallows and placed in coffin.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler gives a speech during a Nazi Labor party rally in Nuremberg, Germany. Adolf Hitler speaks from a dais. Nazis with shovels. Men beat drums. Adolf Hitler speaks before a microphone. Individual party members in the ranks identify where they come from, within Germany. Emphasis is on National unity and work. The party members march bearing their shovels as surrogates for arms.
U.S. infantrymen in Germany during World War II. Aerial view of road cut through forested area of Germany. Ground-level view of a battlefield through barbed wire. Artillery shell bursts in a field. Factories and smoke stacks in distance. A U.S. Sherman tank moves forward. U.S. infantrymen move and take cover among concrete antitank dragon's teeth of the German Siegfried Line. Views of the many antitank structures in the Siegfried Line.
United States Army infantrymen in Munich, Germany during World War II. U.S. tanks and infantrymen advance along a street and pass through the Karlstor gate (Neuhauser Str., 80331 München, Germany). United States soldiers march on the street past bombed-out buildings. Rubble from Allied bombing raids seen on sides of roads. A column of infantry laden tanks moves along a street.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along Old Town Cologne. Debris on the street. A tank's gun traverses. Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) in the foreground. A soldier standing beside a Jeep uses a field phone. Soldiers advance on the street.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Wrecked buildings and rubble along the street sides. Tanks advance through the debris filled streets. Two soldiers atop pile of debris poised with rifles at the ready. Soldier in prone position atop pile of debris fires a machine gun. View of a German Mark V Panzer (Panther) tank in Komödienstrasse near the Cologne Cathedral. This is shortly after it had knocked out at least one U.S. M4 Sherman tank in Cologne that day. The Panzer is one of three German tanks remaining in the city. Combat camera footage from Cameraman Jim Bates shows the attack on the Panther tank as seen from Bates' position in the Deutsche Arbeitsfront building. The Panther is hit by fire from gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in an M-26 series Pershing tank (a T26E3) with a 90mm gun, which had just rolled into position at the crossing of An den Dominikanern and Marzellenstraße. (The Pershing tank is not seen in this footage. It is at street level in front of the building, with the cameraman above). German soldiers jump from the Panther tank. The German Panther Tank receives additional fire from the Pershing and is consumed in flames. Smoke rising from the tank. Camera pans to view of the Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) and then back to the burning Panther tank.
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