U.S. soldiers climb through a hole blown through the brick wall of a bar-locked room at Merkers Mines in Germany near end of World War II. Bags of Nazi German gold, bank notes, and treasured paintings and stolen art work found inside the mine.
A-5 Missile takes off at Greifswalder Oie in Ostvorpommern, Germany, during World War 2. Missile launches into the air. Missile cover and equipment in background. Aerial view of terrain, showing corn crops in the region.
Carol Heiss do figure skating during World Figure Skating Championship at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Spectators clap. Carol bows after her performance is over.
Victory meeting at the 12th Army Group Headquarters, Bad Wildungen in Germany attended by Generals of the Allied forces post World War II. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges along with other Generals and officials of the Allied army are present. A horse gifted to General Bradley by Russian Marshal Konev.
Generals of the Allied forces attend a Commanders victory celebration meeting at the 12th Army Group Headquarters, Bad Windungen in Germany, three days after the World War II in Europe. American officers of the Allied army step out of the headquarter building and settle for a group photograph. Front row: Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson — Ninth U.S. Army; Gen. George S. Patton Jr. — Third U.S. Army; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz — U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Supreme Allied Commander; Gen. Omar N. Bradley — 12th Army Group; Gen. Courtney H. Hodges — First U.S. Army; Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow — Fifteenth U.S. Army. Rear row: Brig. Gen. Ralph F. Stearley — IX Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg — Ninth Air Force; Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell “Beetle” Smith — SHAEF Chief of Staff; Maj. Gen. Otto P. Weyland — XIX Tactical Air Command; Brig. Gen. Richard E. Nugent — XXIX Tactical Air Command. A smaller version of the group is seen afterward, representing the 12th Army Group's field-army and tactical-air leadership: Seated: Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson — commanding general, U.S. Ninth Army; Gen. George S. Patton Jr. — commanding general, U.S. Third Army; Gen. Omar N. Bradley — commanding general, 12th Army Group; Gen. Courtney H. Hodges — commanding general, U.S. First Army; Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow — commanding general, U.S. Fifteenth Army. Standing: Brig. Gen. Ralph F. Stearley — IX Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg — Ninth Air Force; Maj. Gen. Otto P. Weyland — XIX Tactical Air Command; Brig. Gen. Richard E. Nugent — XXIX Tactical Air Command. Generals inspect a horse gifted to General Omar Bradley by Russian Marshal Konev.
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of Nazi Germans in Lower Saxony, Germany after liberation by British Army during World War II. A woman doctor, prisoner and in charge of the female section, describes conditions of the camp. She indicates there were no beds, little food and water a day. Epidemics of typhus spread. No medicine available. More than a thousand died daily. Various gynecologic experiments performed on girls around nineteen years of age. Guards in the men's camp took out liver and heart of dead men and ate them. Food and chocolates distributed by Red Cross just before British forces arrived. Medical experiments included giving heavy Benzene injections to the prisoners. Women liberated from the camp stand around her. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibit 230
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