Displaced Persons (DP) and refugees travel in horse drawn carts on streets of Germany. German civilians on streets. German civilians ride bicycles. Pedestrians on pavement. German civilians loot a warehouse, taking bags of goods. People fill lorries from goods of warehouse, during time of food and supply scarcity near end of World War 2 in Europe.
United States 1st Army and 9th Army open their combined attack on Roer River fortresses in Germany. during World War 2. Wrecked buildings in view. The troops then advance to Cologue Plain. Bombardment precedes their fighting advances into Jülich, Linnich, Neuss, Baal and Erkelenze and later across Rhine River. Dead bodies of German soldiers. Pontoon Bridge approach to various cities. General Simpson and General Eisenhower on a tour of inspection at the Citadel in Jülich. Dead bodies of victims killed there. German boy soldiers captured. Columns of surrendered German soldiers with hands behind their heads being escorted under guard by U.S. troops through the streets. Four soldiers wearing top hats. Smiling children. Nazi prisoners and refugees march on streets. Russian and Polish slave laborers released from concentration camps smile and greet allied troops. A group of freed women prisoners smile. Men prisoners released from the camp. The liberated prisoners fix a meal. Views of the concentration camp buildings and 3 wire fences, including one electrified fence are seen. Shoes and clothing of camp victims are seen at the base of the electrified fence.
Postwar view of wrecked buildings in Germany. Rubble on streets. Fallen German soldiers on ground and in a damaged car. German prisoners of war stand in a group. A large number of German prisoners of war, outdoors, in a large fenced field.
People seated at a concert given in honor of Adolf Hitler's birthday, Germany. Director of the orchestra conducts the band. Members of the band play different musical instruments. Spectators seated in the hall. German officers in the audience. Audience claps at the end of the concert. Joseph Paul Goebbels delivers an address about Hitler.
7th United States Army captures small towns in Germany. Several buildings in view. Artillery on road. U.S. troops firing. Smoke rises up. Houses and huts in small towns. Dead German soldiers. Infantry search in houses. U.S. Tanks on road. Troops gathered on a ground. Soldiers fire. Fence in the background. (World War II period).
The Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in Germany right after liberation by the British 11th Armored Division, near the end of World War Two. British medical officers treat the liberated prisoners. The sick prisoners lie on hospital beds. The prisoners are treated with insecticides. Children receive medical attention and care. Camp Commandant, Josef Kramer, seen under guard by armed British soldier, Jeremiah Mehigan. The Belsen camp is destroyed by British troops using a Wasp Carrier flamethrower, as former prisoners and British troops watch.
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