Victims of the Gestapo in Polygone, France. German prisoners dig up graves in Polygone, France to remove victims of Nazis from their graves. A dead body removed and placed on a stretcher. A dead man's shoes removed and placed in a box held by a red cross worker. Notes are made during the process. Prisoners continue to dig the graves. A cross on a grave in the foreground. (World War II period).
German equipment in Loriol, France during World War II. Wrecked German equipment along the road in Loriol, France as a result of Allied aerial and artillery strafing. Men load boxes onto a cart. A dead German soldier loaded onto a truck. Trucks and jeeps move past wrecked equipment.
Croatian officers return to Zagreb, Yugoslavia from Germany. A train pulls up at a station in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Croatian officers get off the train as a jubilant crowd cheers and welcomes them in a warm manner. Officers review troops, hear a speech by an officer. Officer shakes hands with the soldiers. Soldiers march on the street as people cheer them. Officers parade with the Chief of State Ante Pavelic. (World War II period).
Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Editors of American newspapers at the concentration camp. They take notes. Dead bodies piled up at the camp. Emaciated prisoners in their cots. U.S. Brigadier General Frank A. Allen conducts a tour of the camp and enters a camp hospital. (World War II period).
Oise salvage in France during World War II. Medics carry a Russian guard who was injured during a grenade explosion in Reims, France. Bandages cover the eyes and upper portion of the man’s head. The medics place the patient onto a truck, and it drives away. Scattered debris on the ground.
Liberation of France from German troops during World War II. A man at the office of the French Resistance fighters, now known as French Forces of the Interior (FFI), in open conflict with Vichy Government and German occupying forces. Sounds of machine gun fire. An official building with the Allied flags set up on steps. Inside an official signs documents. French civilians gathered on the sidewalks. Several French resistance members are being taken into custody. French Resistance members fire, at German soldiers, from protected positions, such as rooftops. Inside a busy office many typists are at work. One wears an armband of the Free French (Cross of Lorraine). A German truck burns. A man carrying a flag looks at an injured person in the street. Men fire rifles and throw grenades at German beute Somua and Hotchkiss tanks.
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