Activities of U.S. Army 4th Armored Division in the heavily damaged city of Worms in Germany during World War II. Damaged and burned buildings of the city. Views of rubble in the wrecked town. The muzzle of a German gun in the foreground. Wreckage in the streets. A building on fire with flames visible through the windows. Collapsed walls of wrecked buildings. An automotive service station building in the distance with a Standard Oil or Shell Oil company sign and a BMW logo symbol sign. U.S. armored vehicles and jeeps move nearby. A few citizens walking in the streets. Various bombed buildings and a wrecked railroad station. Debris strewn over the streets. A sign showing the way to "Hamburg" on a street.
U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight for bombing Hamburg in Germany during World War II. B-17 Flying Fortresses in formation flight over thick clouds. A B-17 in flight over thick clouds.
U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Hamburg, Germany during World War II. View of Heligoland island and its coastline. The B-17s in flight. Aerial views of target island. On Hamburg: Thick smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks and a refinery on fire. Coastal installations on islands. Smoke and fire from a coastal oil depot.
The Malmedy War Crimes Trials in Dachau, Germany. The defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars". The prosecutor quotes in part German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard the Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "the Battle of the Bulge". He goes on to tell how "German soldiers sang the sword and blood songs thus releasing them from any regulations as to the treatment of prisoners".
Trade unions in a building in Hamburg, Germany. At an outdoor ceremony Colonel Armetage, British Military Government, restores free trade unions and union buildings for the people of Hamburg. Paul Bebert, formerly a prisoner in a World War 2 Nazi concentration camp, speaks to a crowd and then mounts a scaffold and with a hammer and a chisel destroys a swastika on the facade of a building.
Traditional Rose Monday festival in Cologne, Germany. Large crowds gather during the prosperity pageant. Troops march during the festival. Humorous and grotesque masquerades and decorated floats in the Rose Monday festival.
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