Formal surrender of the German army before the Allies at headquarters of the 15th Army Group in Italy during World War II. Four star General Mark W. Clark flanked by Major General Benjamin W, Chidlaw, Lieutenant General R. L. McCreery and Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott in a war room. Motorcade of surrendering German Generals arrives and enter War Room. U.S. and German military officials on a table for signing surrender. U.S. staff officer addresses the surrender party. German officers leave in sedan after signing surrender.
The U.S. 5th and the 8th Army meet in Italy during World War II. United States soldiers move on road in jeeps, trucks and motorcycles. Soldiers of the 5th and 8th Army shake hands with each other. Troops march with rifles in their hands. Sign board with an arrow reads 'Roma 57.6 Kilometers'.
Italian partisans execute Mussolini. Body of Mussolini on a street of the village Giulino di Mezzegra in Italy. Italian soldiers near his body. Early pictures of Mussolini from 1938 to 1943. Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in 1943. Pictures of Mussolini some time before his death. (World War II period).
German hostages at the Hotel Lago Di Braies-Brai near Dobbiaco, Italy. German Pastor Martin Niemöller (or Niemoller) with soldiers on the snow covered hotel porch. He leans against the balustrade smoking a pipe. Snow and trees in the background. General Holder, former Chief of Staff of the German Army sitting in a chair looks out of hotel window. German hostages, liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army from the Hotel, walk around in the snow on hotel grounds. Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, shows his number which was worn at all times and the cross sewed on his jacket back. French politician Andre Leon Blum, German businessman Fritz Thyssen, President of the Reichsbank Hjalmar Schact, Austrian politician Kurt Schuschnigg and Lt. Colonel Stevens chat with 88th Division soldiers. Military vehicles on the street. (World War II period).
A dramatic roadway viaduct somewhere in Northern Italy. It is of steel and concrete construction with integral arches, and soars above a deep valley in which a river flows. The center portion of the bridge is gone, due to Allied bombing in World War 2. Camera pans over the viaduct from surrounding high terrain. (May be associated with a river named Olio, or perhaps, Oglio.)
The dead body of former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini in Italy. The dead body of Mussolini with blood stained clothes lying in a morgue. The name tag on the body reads "Mussolini Benito". The dead bodies of Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci placed in a seated position alongside one another.
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