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Bombed Berghof residence; German leaders surrender to Allies; stolen art collection retrieved after German defeat.
Ruins of Hitler's Berghof residence in Berchtesgaden after bombing by Allied forces near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Goering's stolen collection of paintings and art pieces taken from all over Europe. The stolen collection was hidden in air raid shelters and loaded on battle trains. View of U.S. soldiers retrieving the stolen works of art. Book 'Mein Kampf' written by Adolf Hitler in Landsberg prison. Portrait of Adolf Hitler with a Nazi symbol. German military officials including General Herman Gred Von Runstedt, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, and Hermann Goering surrender to the American Army. Views of Hermann Göring after having been flown from Austria to U.S. Army headquarters in Augsburg, Germany on May 9, 1945, where he is seen handing over his handgun. Göring talking to U.S. 7th Army officials.
German civilians walk along the damaged Tangermünde Bridge after its destruction in WW2
Scenes following the April 1945 destruction of the Tangermünde Bridge over the River Elbe, by retreating German forces in World War 2. View of damaged Tangermunde Bridge. Defeated German soldiers and German civilians walk along the bridge, moving westward into American and British controlled areas, and fleeing advancing Soviet forces (fearing their retribution). Civilians climb the bridge carefully with their luggage, having to hold twisted steel girders with no flooring beneath. Wounded German walks carefully on the bridge. U.S. Army soldiers checking papers of German citizens crossing the bridge.
U.S. Maj Gen Emil F Reinhardt shakes hands with Russian officer Maj Gen Rusakov in Germany during World War II.
Russians and Americans meet in Germany during World War II. American Major-General Emil F. Reinhardt, Commanding General of the 69th Division shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Major-General Vladimir V. Rusakov Commanding Officer of the 58th Guards Division at a meeting of American and Russian troops near the Elbe River and the town of Torgau, Germany in late April, 1945. American and Russian troops stand in formation. US, Russian, and British flags on display.
Hospitalization of American prisoners of war (POWs) liberated from Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War II.
Film opens with slate reading: "Cabanatuan Prisoners' Hospitalization at Time of Repatriation." Brief view of a tent-like field hospital where former POWs were being treated, behind American lines, with rescued American POWs in beds and several Army nurses attending them. After that is an extended view of several ambulatory patients engaged in conversations at a hospital behind American lines. At TC:01:35, the scene reverts to earlier time, and a patient is seen lying in the ruins of the prison camp on the day of the rescue raid (Jan 30, 1945). He is being tended to by another soldier, with whom he converses. Two former prisoners are seen in a straw-lined cart prepared for transport back to the American lines, by water buffalo. The remainder of the film shows the former POWs and their rescuers leaving the Cabanatuan prison, on their way back to the American lines. Some non-ambulatory former prisoners are seen lying on straw- covered ground.
Evacuation to hospitals of American prisoners of war (POWs) liberated from Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War II
Film opens with slate reading: "Evacuation to Hospitals." Next, on January 30, 1945, the day of the "Cabanatuan Raid" (Mission to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan) rescuers are seen carrying a former POW from a building, on a litter. Local Filipinos and others are standing on the porch of the prison building. An ambulatory former prisoner comes down the steps unaided. Several rescued prisoners are seated on chairs, conversing. Closeups of some of them. Two weakened and bandaged former prisoners help each other up some steps. Slate states: "Man with Cane afflicted with Beri-Beri." A severely disabled former prisoner, with a cane, makes his way unaided across the grass. Rescuers and Filipinos are in the background, along with some carts used to evacuate disabled former prisoners back behind American lines.
Damaged Hiroshima Castle, City Hall, and Yorozuya Bridge after atomic bomb attack during World War 2 in Hiroshima Japan.
Damage in Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic bomb attack in August 1945. A map shows the explosion range with in 1/6 miles. Buildings in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb strike. The wooden structure of Hiroshima Castle is demolished due to bombing. Less damaged Hiroshima City Hall. A soldier inspects the floor and railing of Yorozuya Bridge located 0.6 miles from the explosion zero point. Burn shadow marks from posts on the bridge indicate direction of the explosion. The soldier stands on a shadow area created by the stride of a pedestrian who had been crossing the bridge at the time of the explosion. The soldier marks in chalk the shoes prints from the shadow of the person who had been crossing the bridge at the moment of the blast.
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