Butter distributed to people in Germany. People crowd in a large number in a street. They enter a building. A woman distributes butter to the people. An old woman walks out of the building with butter in her hands. An old man holds butter in his hand and walks.
Collision between two trains on a same track during the repair work in Germany. The wrecked train cars. A view of the wreckage. A sign board reads 'Stuttgart Waibilngen'. The scattered wreckage where the accident took place. U.S. Army personnel walk in between the wreckage. The personnel cover a coffin. The rescue workers stand in the background. The personnel carry the coffin through the railway tracks. The scattered wreckage.
General of the Japanese Imperial Army Tomoyuki Yamashita on official vist in Germany during World War II. The Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita enters a room. The General shakes hand with a German officer. General Yamashita presents a sword to the German officer. Other Japanese delegation officers and German officers stand in the background. The German General speaks to the Japanese General. Both of them shake hands. A Japanese officer takes out the sword from its cover. General Yamashita holds the sword in his hands. Japanese script written on the sword. The officer holds the sword in his hand.
Allied troops in Germany during World War II. Allied troops walk on a street. Damaged buildings on either side of the street. Rubble on the street. The troops on tanks and trucks advance. First U.S. Army troops in a trench with guns. The troops on tanks fire and advance. The troops on a tank advance. An insignia of the United States on a tank. The U.S. 9th Army troops on jeeps cross the Rhine river. A troop on a bridge crosses the river. The troops enter a German town Lich. The damaged buildings. A soldier fires a gun. The dead German soldiers. The captured German troops raise their hands and advance. The German people stand. A view of the damaged and wreckage in Julich. Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the U.S. 9th Army Commander W.H. Simpson inspect positions near Julich. A view of the damaged town. The civilians walk on a street. The captured German soldiers walk on the street. Russian and Polish prisoners are liberated. The U.S. Army soldier greet the Russians and Polish prisoners. The prisoners are liberated and meet each other. A soldier stands with a woman. A view of a German concentration camp. The buildings at the camp. Barbed wire fence around the camp.
The U.S. 510th Tank Battalion, of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, in Germany. The unit's roots go back to 1866 (Buffalo Soldiers). Troops lined up for a fun ceremony welcoming their 100 pound baby Buffalo mascot, from Allentown, Pennsylvania. An Army truck with canvas cover sits as backdrop. The canvas is painted with their buffalo unit insignia and the word "Geronimo." A Lieutenant Colonel and a noncom bring the calf forward and it drinks from a container held by the Colonel, who then places large "dog tags"around the calf's neck. The tags read " Allen T. Geronimo" and give its serial number as 12345678, and key dates as 1954. Unit band then plays.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany (Gerszewski Barracks, Knielingen) for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). Several shots of officers keeping money boxes on a trolley. The boxes with money are loaded in a truck. The officers keep a watch. Trucks carrying money drive on a road. The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The boxes are piled up. The money is burnt. Officers pick up MPCs and put them into the fire. The whole committee witnesses the burning of the scrip money. The officers collect money and put it into the fire.
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