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
A carrier loaded with a container carrying A-5 missile (precursor to A-4 or V-2 rocket) being taken off the ship at Greifswalder Oie island in Germany. A vehicle carries the container to the launch site where the container is unloaded from the carrier. Rocket specialists and technicians monitor missile launch from a building, as a wind vane indicates the direction of the wind. A German aircraft Fiseler "Storch" lands and officials meet the pilot. One is Wernher von Braun. Container is taken off from the missile as it gets ready for launch. Missile emits smoke and fire as it takes off. It moves upwards and a man opens a parachute and lands at the launch site. (World War II period).
Wide, distant view of launch of German A-5 rocket (precursor to A-4 or V-2 rocket) at a launch site in Greifswalder Oie island,Germany. Parachute descends through the air after launch.
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