Sixth Armored Division of United States Army drives through Altenburg in Germany. German prisoners march along a road past U.S. vehicles. Two German prisoners, one running across field surrender to U.S. soldiers in a ditch besides the road. Soldiers lying in the ditches fire their rifles at German soldier coming across the field to surrender. One U.S. soldier rushes from the ditch and kicks the prisoner. U.S. soldiers on the tanks. (World War II period).
Surrender of German 512th Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion at Iserlohn, Germany. German JagdTiger tank destroyers and other German vehicles including armored trucks and personnel carriers loaded with German troops. The tank destoyers move on the streets of Iserlohn bound for the town square. Civilians watch the troops. Buildings in the background. The German troops surrender at Town Square. German soldiers leave their vehicles and line up in the square. They create piles of smaller arms including pistols, machine guns, and Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons. (World War II period).
Surrender of German unit at Iserlohn, Germany. The German troops of the 512th Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion, equipped with JagdTiger Tank Destroyers surrender to U.S. soldiers at the Iserlohn Town Square. German soldiers leave their vehicles and line up in square. German soldiers stand at the square. The Battalion commander, Lieutenant Hauptmann Albert Ernst stands in center of square and addresses his troops with surrender instructions. They surrender their arms. Buildings of Iserlohn town squre in the background. (World War II period).
Nazi war criminals attend British Military Tribunal in Luneburg, Germany. Nazi war criminal and Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Josef Kramer is marched to a British Military Tribunal at Lunenburg. Kramer's chief assistant Fraulein Irma Grese arrives with other women. The 35 accused men and women wear identifying numbers in court sessions. Number two is German doctor Fritz Klein who is responsible for countless deaths. Corpses piled up at Bergen-Belson camp after its liberation in World War II.
Former French officials in Augsburg, Germany after their liberation towards the end of World War II. Exteriors of a building shows U.S. 7th Army Commander General Alexander Patch talking to French officials liberated by his unit. The group includes French Generals Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, French politician Paul Reynaud, former French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and Madame Caillan who is the sister of French General Charles de Gaulle.
Return of German prisoners of war to Russian soldiers, by the U.S. Army in Grieben, Germany at the end of World War II. A large river barge loaded with German prisoners returning to the east bank of the Elbe river. Russian soldiers on the east bank supervise the unloading of several barges filled with German prisoners of war.
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