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German war criminals are executed by Allied occupying forces in 1945, in World War 2

View from above, of the surrounding walls and courtyard of a prison in Rheinbach, Germany. Ground view inside the prison yard, where German civilian Matthias Gierens is being escorted to the gallows by U.S. military police, and accompanied by a German Catholic priest, on June 29, 1945. They ascend the gallows and final charges and sentence are read to Gierens. Next scene shows bodies stacked up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany. Scene returns to the gallows, and a hood is placed over Gierens' head. View of Allied army officer witnesses, in formation, at parade rest. Noose is placed over Gierens' hood. View of a a bird flying overhead, trapdoor opens, Gierens drops, and noose tightens. Next is an unrelated scene of several German soldiers being executed. They are seen hanging from four gallows in a line in a public square while a large crowd, possibly Soviet citizens, looks on. (Notes: Regarding the execution of Gierens in the opening scene: German civilian Matthias Gierens was a 37 year old railroad worker. He was executed for the August 15, 1944, murder near Priest, Germany, of a downed American airman, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss. Gierens and three other German civilians, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, of the murder. Their trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime.)

Date: 1945
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055476
Kaiser William II, ruler of the German Empire dedicates a monument to the Battle of Leipzig.

Kaiser William II, ruler of the German Empire dedicates a monument to his forefathers, 100 years after they defeated Napoleon, in the Battle of the Nations (aka Battle of Leipzig). The Kaiser seen with his officers. A large crowd gathered to witness the ceremony. The parade with Kaiser William II followed by rulers of the three kingdoms of Saxony, Bavaria and Wurttemberg, and their troops in full war regalia. Kaiser and the kings arrive at the venue of the monument. Crowd holding flags in honor of the Kaiser. The Kaiser and other officials walk away after the ceremony.

Date: 1913
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020548
A Russian attack near Breslau is repelled by German tanks, artillery and rocket launchers during World War II.

Germany responds to the Russian attack near Breslau, Lower Silesia, Germany (Now part of Poland) during World War II. StuG III's move on the road. Soldiers stand with Panzerfaust recoilless antitank weapons and guns. Sdkfz 251/21 Drilling half-tracks advance. Two soldiers look through binoculars. A stationary Panther (Panzer) tank. Soldiers sit on a Hetzer Jagdpanzer 38 light tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz. 138/2). A tank gun is fired. Soldiers sit holding small arms in the battle field.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675057620
Korean film depicts German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's plan of world conquest and shows montage of German military action scenes from World War II

After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the front of the German chancellery in Berlin, Germany. A plaque in German identifies it as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP (Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party). Camera moves through various rooms of the building showing wreckage. In one room a world globe, a table and some broken furniture are shown. Scene changes to an animated map of Europe centered on Germany that depicts the dramatic expansion of German conquest in beginning of World War 2. It then shows further expansion with German invasion of the Soviet Union. From then on It adds a line directed to India (labeled in Russian) and another pointed into North America.The map then sends more lines covering the Continent of Africa and the South and Central America. These represent a plan for world conquest. View of a German three engine twin tail seaplane being launched by a catapult. Closeups of the plane in flight. Scene changes to German paratroopers jumping from a Junkers 52, three engine transport plane. Aerial view from above of the paratroopers leaping from the aircraft and from below as they descend with their chutes billowing out above them. Ground view of them landing on sand in North Africa. German troops on motor cycles, half track personnel carriers ( Sd.Kfz. 250 ) and Panzer III tanks. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel standing with his staff, directing elements of his Afrika Korps forces in North Africa. Smiling German troops riding in an open Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track personnel carrier. A huge explosion and dense black smoke is seen. Then, a German Heinkel HE 111 bomber is seen maneuvering overhead. Brief glimpse from an aircraft strafing an armored vehicle on the ground. Suddenly a submarine's periscope is seen just above the water and a transport ship (or freighter) is seen as through the periscope. Next, inside a German submarine, the Captain lowers his periscope and scene shifts to bow of submarine surfacing and the ship is seen burning and exploding. A torpedo is launched from a surfaced submarine and it strikes a ship creating a huge explosion and fireball.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675074090
Allies defeat Nazi Germany in World War II

Invasion of Germany by Allied forces during World War and unconditional surrender by Germany during World War 2. At TC: 00:19 thru 00: 21, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Commander of Axis forces in Italy, is seen outside a building in the mountains. Rear view of the war-damaged Reichtag building and View of the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops occupy Berlin. General Dwight D. Eisenhower conferring with an unidentified General. Lieutenant Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley are with him. Soviet soldiers waving to Americans on opposite sides of the Elbe River. American soldiers paddling an inflated boat across the river. U.S. 69th Infantry division and Russian 58th Guard Division troops under Major General Rusakov embracing meet at the Elbe River in Torgau Germany on April 26, 1945. Several succeeding views of American and Soviet soldiers celebrating together. A group of American and Soviet soldiers posing for pictures atop a concrete foundation with a banner across it reading: "Our Greeting to the Heroes Army of United States of America." A battery of tanks firing their guns. Two British soldiers with one pointing in a direction. A Soviet IS-2 tank moving past a burning building. Destroyed street sign pointing at Hamburg. Local citizens waving white flags. Allied armor crossing a bridge over the Rhine River. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery and German General Eberhard Kinzel sign a document of surrender at Lüneburg Heath on 4 May 1945. Civilians moving about on streets of Berlin after Germany surrenders in World War 2. A British soldier posts an announcement from Allied occupying forces declaring the dissolution of the Nazi Party. Closeup of German citizens looking at the announcement. Local people standing amidst rubble near damaged buildings. A British Cromwell tank moving past the camera. Glimpse of a German family. Sherman tanks moving along a roadway. American Lieutenant Generals Leonard T. Gerow and William Simpson in Berlin. Trucks and tanks driving past fires. A long line of German prisoners of war marching beside a field under guard. German General Alfred Jodl and others leaving a car and entering General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945, where General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs a document of unconditional surrender. Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff sit beside him.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060116
Number of A-26 warplanes of U.S. Army Air Force fly in formation of two groups over the Alps in Germany, during World War II.

Fleet of Allied A-26 warplanes of United States Army Air Force in flight over the Alps in Germany, during World War II. Large group of planes fly in formation in two groups. Fleet of planes flying upwards in sky, as seen from plane flying at lower altitude.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056544