Parachute training in the German army during World War II. Junkers Ju-52 airplanes parked on an airfield. Soldiers stand near the planes. A soldier salutes an officer. Paratroops board the aircraft. The Ju 52 airplanes take off from the airfield. The planes in flight. They fly in formation overhead. The soldiers jump out of the planes with parachutes. Close up views of them jumping from open door of aircraft, and aerial views of German paratroopers jumping. Aerial view of the soldiers descending. They land and quickly take off their parachute gear. They race to a gear parachute and open it to get rifles.
Paratrooper training in the German army during World War II. Paratrooper soldiers advance on a field. They lie in prone position. A soldier looks through binoculars. Other soldiers come forward and take a prone position with a MG 34 machine gun. One soldier loads a cartridge belt in the MG-34 and the other soldier fires it. Smoke in the foreground due to firing. Soldiers advance on the field amid smoke and explosions. View of machine gun being fired at dusk or near night, as seen from just behind the gunman, almost machine gun operator point of view.
German army paratroop soldiers during World War II. The German soldiers march on a street in formation while singing a song. Buildings in the far background. Trees along a side of the street.
Slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. Former French prisoner at the camp shows a soldier through the underground crematorium at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. Former prisoners in crematorium carry out bones and ashes from the furnace. They dump the bones and ashes in the nearby pit. Sign over the crematorium reads: 'Disinfection'.
View from an overlooking hillside of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, in the closing days of World War 2. Camera pans over rows of large barracks in the distance. A water supply pond is in the foreground. Scene shifts to Brigadier General Milton B. Halsey, of the U.S. 97th Infantry Division, as he strides into the camp, accompanied by a full Colonel and other officers on his staff. A civilian photographer stands near the iron gates of the camp. The General pauses to speak with another officer, who had arrived at the camp earlier (possibly with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment). Halsey and staff, now accompanied by several more officers and soldiers, walks past an area from which white smoke is rising. They pass clothing and equipment piled on the ground. An officer leads them and points out features of the camp. They descend steps beneath steel grating and look at a wooden cell with bunks in it. Next, they are seen, outdoors, conversing near a fence line. Several civilians are now with them. Halsey and his staff retrace their path underground and ascend steps from under the steel gratings. They pause near a wooden barracks building and then continue across a camp yard, where several vehicles are parked, and board waiting jeeps, in which they drive away. General Halsey's jeep displays a star on its bumper. (His driver has been identified as Glen E. Miller of Calhoun, Illinois.)
Liberated slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. Soldiers and civilians stand on a field. They take out corpses from different areas. Mutilated corpses on the field. They dig out the bodies of the slave laborers, killed during the evacuation of the concentration camp.
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