Belgium civilians in Manhay, Belgium. Long line of Belgian civilians on highway. Road sign of 'Erezee' and 'Manhay'. Views of civilians as they pass Belgian guard.
Activities of military police and soldiers in Manhay, Belgium. Camouflaged half-track, motor carriages, M-4 tanks set up by 3rd armored division as roadblocks. 36th infantry regiment soldier concealed by tree near road. Military police and soldier with 45 caliber submachine gun directs traffic. Signs "Erezee", "Stavelot" and two other designations and their distances. Busy intersection in town of Manhay with directional signs. (World War II period).
Belgian civilian refugee women and children walking with their belongings on road in Rahier, Stoumont, Walloon Region, Belgium. Refugee women on road carry children, bedding and luggage. View of refugees with children. A few American soldiers are seen walking near the refugees. World War II.
Refugees in enemy held chateau, Belgium. Belgian refugees evacuate area in horse carts. Refugees on road. Foggy and snow covered field. Soldier in foxhole on snow covered field. View of enemy held chateau. (World War II period).
German Paratroop Commander, Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte is seen following his surrender to U.S. forces at Monschau, Germany, during World War 2. He has a bandaged right arm, injured when he led a contingent of paratroopers in a nighttime drop during German Operation Stösser. He is being carried on a stretcher and placed aboard a U.S. Army field ambulance. ( Note: Von der Heydte commanded German paratroopers in the ill-fated parachute landings of Operation Stösser, on the Hautes Fagnes, Belgium, during the Ardennes counter-offensive. After attempting, for a couple of days, to return to German lines,through thickly forested area, the exhausted Von der Heydte gave himself up to the Americans at Monschau, Germany.)
Execution of German spies at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. The prisoners include: Unteroffizier Manfred Pernass, Oberfähnrich Günther Billing, and Gefreiter Wilhelm Schmidt. They participated in Otto Skorzeny's Waffen SS Commando force Operation Greif, in which English-speaking German Commandos operated behind Allied lines, masquerading in U.S. uniforms and equipment. They are brought to execution spot of the 482nd MP guard station by military police of 509th MP. Spies are tied to stakes and blindfolded. MP firing squad composed of twenty four men fire. Execution of the spies. Officer checks to insure they are dead. View of slumped bodies of spies still tied to the stakes. The firing squad marches away. (World War II period).
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