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Soldiers of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of Bulge and Germany, in World War Two.
U.S. 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of Bulge in the Western Front of World War 2. A map points Belgium, Germany and France. United States Army soldiers move forward in snow on the front. They pass through the Ardennes. Scenes of U.S. and German soldiers. Snow and ice covered forest. American soldiers on tanks and half-track vehicles. U.S. troops cross the Rhine River over a captured bridge at Remagen. The 1st. Division continues to move through Germany all the way to Czechoslovakia. German soldiers load up into trucks at war's end. Soldiers smoke, talk and rest. A soldier talks on phone. Quick scene from Nuremberg trials.
Training film for U.S. troops with the Army of occupation in Germany after world War II
Opens with bell tolling Victory against Germany in World War II. Next, a slate reads: "Victory Leads to Peace," and a farmer is seen with cattle pulling a plow. But narrator says "the problem now is future peace," and a map of Germany is shown overlaid with "Your Job in Germany." A cartoon of a soldier is superimposed on the map, along with one of a World War 1 American soldier and a figure of possible future soldier with similar mission. Camera focuses on parts of German aircraft in a jumbled heap. Closeups of weary defeated German soldiers at end ot World War II. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler speaking and haranguing an audience from a podium in an animated and forceful way. Swastika flags displayed from houses in a quaint German town. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, at a microphone. Glimpse of a German concentration camp. But as they appear, each of the Nazi elements promptly disappears, showing the scenes without such Nazi symbols and persons. Skeleton remains of bombed buildings. Flower displays. Bucolic German rural countryside and quaint old villages in peaceful settings. Camera focuses on a book titled "German History." Chapter I, titled "Blood and Iron," shows Image of Otto von Bismarck. German troops march in a parade. Narrator states that "under Bismarck, the German empire was built." (He formed the German Empire in 1871, unifying Germany with himself as Imperial Chancellor, while retaining control of Prussia at the same time.) The film shows mounted German lancers as it alludes to Bismarck's campaigns against Denmark in 1867; Austria in 1866; and France, in 1870. Germany's leaders celebrating its status, in 1871, as the mightiest power in Europe. Troops marching and girls dancing nearby. Farmers plowing field with a horse and cow. Classic peaceful rural alpine scenes with local people in agricultural pursuits. A group of local German musicians playing folk music as village people dance outdoors. Back to the book, Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown on Chapter 2, entitled: "Deutschland über Alles." Gathering of German soldiers in Pickelhaube (spiked helmets). A German Big Bertha howitzer firing. German troops marching against Serbia; Russia; and France (with view of war damaged French cathedral). German invasion of Belgium in 1940 (with view of clock tower resting in rubble). German troops seen in Italy, walking past battle-damaged buildings. German Zeppelin dropping bombs on British targets and view of bombed out London neighborhood. Next scene shows a capsized ship with survivors running across its hull. Film slate labels the scene as United States, as if it is a U.S. ship attacked by Germany. (Actually, it is the Austro-Hungarian Battleship, SMS Szent Istvan, torpedoed, by Italian torpedo boats, during World War I.) Next, American soldiers in trench are seen going "over the top" and into "no man's land" on the western front of World War 1. Glimpse through a window of Kaiser Wilhelm II, after defeat of Germany, in 1918. View of Germans in a Beer Garden. Picturesque view of German town. A German orchestra performing. American soldiers marching out of Germany, with flags waving. Back to the history book,as chapter III is revealed, entitled "Today Germany, tomorrow, the world," and featuring Adolf Hitler. German troops invading Austria (where a civilian lies dead on the ground). German troops entering Czechoslovakia (where local people in tears render the Nazi salute). They march into Poland (where a girl weeps over someone, not seen, on the ground). They march into France (where a wounded, bandaged child cries in a bed). Next, is a scene from England, where a British child victim of bombing lies dead in the remains of a shelter. German troops invading Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and Russia (where a woman tries to rouse a dead woman). They invade Yugoslavia (where women sit near coffins of children) and Greece (where a woman rescues a naked child). A U.S. merchant ship explodes after being torpedoed by a German submarine (unseen). Scenes of destruction with people plucking dead victims from rubble of buildings. American troops invading Normandy, France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Several American soldiers fall to German gunfire on the beach. Wounded American soldiers being transported in jeeps on the battlefield and being placed on landing craft for evacuation. Americans walking past huge piles of destroyed aircraft parts. A landing craft filled with wounded American soldiers. American wounded and dead on a battlefield. Sailors abandoning a burning American ship by jumping into the sea. A sailor picked up in a life boat. A wounded American soldier being dragged from the beachhead at Normandy. Various wounds being treated by U.S. Medical Corps personnel. More scenes of American wounded being moved on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to German people folk dancing. Film concludes with question marks about the future.
Surviving and dead victims of the Dachau concentration camp of the Nazis, rescued after World War II.
The Dachau concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Aerial view of buildings and compound of the camp. The entrance with the Nazi swastika. Liberated inmates of the camp belong to countries like Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Holland. Starved and leaned prisoners of the camp in miserable conditions. Starved dead bodies. Survivors rescued on a cart. Trains filled with lumps of dead bodies lifted by inmates for burial.
Dead bodies at Dachau concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.
Aerial view of Dachau concentration camp with buildings and people, soon after its liberation near end of World War 2 in Europe. Gates of the camp with a Nazi swastika on its top. Starved inmates from Czechoslovakia, France and Holland at the camp. Bodies of dead prisoners in a railroad train car boxcar. Men pile up bodies onto a truck.
Aerial views of Dachau Concentration Camp soon after liberation; emaciated survivors and dead bodies of camp victims.
Scenes at the recently liberated Nazi German Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany, near the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of the Dachau Concentration Camp showing barracks, grounds, perimeter fencing, and various buildings. The main entrance gate of the camp. Views of some of the surviving liberated inmates from Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Holland. Many of the survivors are starved and emaciated. View of a railroad train car that had arrived at the camp, carrying prisoner victims, with more of them dead than alive in the packed train car. Corpses lie inside an open door of a prison train box car. Bodies of victims under a blanket of snow in an open top train car. Some surviving liberated prisoners move piled bodies of dead victims from carts to prepare them for burial.
Polish prisoners after the liberation of Auschwitz Nazi German concentration camp in Poland during World War II.
Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland after its liberation by Soviet troops towards the end of World War II. Bunk beds at Auschwitz show camp prisoners. Electrified wire fences at the camp. 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign at Auschwitz. A sign reads '6000 volt raum vorsicht lebensgefahr'. Women prisoners inside barracks. Pictures of various prisoners, from Poland, Czechoslovakia,and Hungary and Jews, Romanians,and others.
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