Three German soldiers, who were captured in American uniforms, spying behind the American lines, in the Fall of 1944, are executed by a firing squad. In a separate sequence, one of several German civilians is marched toward gallows at Bruchsal prison near Karlsruhe, Germany. They were condemned by a military tribunal for killing six United States Army Air Force aviators who were being held as prisoners of war after crash landing their airplane near the end of the war. A hangman makes preparations. The German criminals are hanged.
German prisoners in trucks move across a pontoon bridge in Germany during World War II. Trucks loaded with German prisoners move across the pontoon bridge on the Rhine River. Children hold tools. Buildings in the background. Boys standing near a sign board. The boys walk past a car on a road. The children standing on the road. Trees in the background.
Riots in a jail in Manila, Philippines. Aerial view of buildings at the Bilibid Prison. Guards at the entrance gate. Convicts prostrate on the ground as an alarm bell rings. The guards run holding guns. The death house at the prison.
German soldiers taking American prisoners of war (POWs) during battle following Allied invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Two U.S. soldiers, holding their hands on their heads, being esorted by armed German soldiers. Several American soldier POWs, including some with bandaged wounds. Two French prisoners in civilian clothes. German soldiers escorting tens of American POWs. A few are wounded. One is helped to walk, by two others.
Map of the French coast and English Channel, highlighting major cities. German armored half-track and SP Flak on a Maultier half-track, camouflaged with foliage. German troops driving livestock along a dirt road. German army trucks barely visible under camoflage of tree branches and foliage. Allied fighter bombers attacking German positions and smoke rising from bombing. French civilians salvaging belongings and some leaving their war-torn village. View of destroyed and damaged buildings in the village and citizens working to clear debris. An injured person being carried on a stretcher by white-helmeted voluteers. A family leaving with their belongins piled into a horse-drawn wagon. Boys pulling a wagon with their belongings. Women pushing baby carriages as they leave their homes. A small group of French Colonial troops taken prisoner, being escorted under guard, along a dirt road. Large numbers of Allied prisoners of war (POWs), being marched through a French city, as local French people watch from sidewalks.
German Army fights the Allied infantry and tanks on the French border of the Western Front, during World War II. German soldiers take prisoner members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and 8th Infantry Divisions, captured in Caen village in Normandy. Germans soldiers guard American prisoners (POW) walking in a village with their hands raised.
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