Several weeks before the end of World War II in Europe, recently captured German prisoners of war, still wearing their uniforms, work under guard, building their own barbed wire enclosure. Some carry and place large timber fence posts. Others dig post holes and string barbed wire. Others fashion fence posts, using saws and hatchets (to sharpen their ends). Several American soldiers supervise and stand guard.
Gun camera footage from U.S. P-47 fighter plane strafing German ground targets near end of World War II. The aircraft operates unopposed and attack targets of opportunity. The aircraft fires at vehicles on a road. Smoke rises from targeted areas. The P-47 is flown by pilot named Cunningham, of the 377th Fighter Squadron, 362nd Fighter Group, 100th Fighter Wing.
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp liberation during World War II. Nazi German SS Guards (German Guards) place dead bodies in trucks. A vehicle drives past the dead bodies. The bodies are thrown into mass graves. German women guards bury the dead. Heaps of bodies being lifted by bulldozers and put in mass graves. The affidavit by United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg.
In the opening scene, many German civilians (mostly women) are seen queued up outside the corner entrance to a building in a German city, where they receive something from a man (who appears to be a clergyman). A dog is with someone at the corner. A private Opel Blitz bus, with belongings on the roof covered by a tarpaulin, passes in front of the camera. It is pulling a trailer, also covered with a tarpaulin. Scene shifts to closeup of a young blond boy standing in front of apartment houses. He smiles and poses. Debris covers the area between the sidewalk and the apartment building. As the boy moves, some structural damage to the building in the background is seen. Two United States soldiers in a Jeep pass behind the boy. Next, a woman walks on a sidewalk. Behind her are destroyed buildings. Another view of destroyed buildings in the city. More views of several people walking in a street lined on its sides by rubble from bombed out buildings. Views from rear of a vehicle moving along street of a destroyed business district. More views of wartime destruction. People (mostly women) gathered in a backyard, read announcements posted on a large bulletin board.
United States aircraft strafes German boats in a river during World War II. An open green field with houses in the background. A fleet of large boats in the river. Aircraft strafe he ships. Explosions on the ships. Houses and green fields along the river.
German civilian refugees evacuate German town in World War II. A group of people looks at an overturned wagon in a street. They turn it and load luggage onto the wagon. Woman pulling a wagon loaded with luggage on a road.
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