Japanese prisoners in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Japanese prisoner in a building. Smoke due to firing and ruins of the buildings.
Freed Jewish prisoners in Europe during World War II. People seated along the railroad tracks. Groups of freed prisoners seated on the ground and resting. Some of the people sleep on the ground. A train on the railroad track. A man looks at his shirt. People gather outside a wagon. A soldier distributes food to them.
Slave labor camp in Flossenburg, Germany during World War II. Former French prisoner at the camp shows a soldier through the underground crematorium at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp. Former prisoners in crematorium carry out bones and ashes from the furnace. They dump the bones and ashes in the nearby pit. Sign over the crematorium reads: 'Disinfection'.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. A police vehicle drives up to the Stateville Prison building. The police van is followed by a car. A number of cars parked in front of the building. Stateville written in the garden with the building in the background.
A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft being fueled in Germany during World War II. United States GIs throw empty gasoline cans on the ground. A crew member refuels a C-47 transport aircraft. The aircraft parked on the ground with a gasoline truck driving in front of it. Soldiers load supplies on the C-47 Skytrain. 'US Army Air Force, 100 Octane' written on the gasoline truck. Liberated French prisoners help unload gasoline from the aircraft. Large number of Liberated Allied prisoners stand on a field. They climb aboard aircraft for evacuation.
German invasion and occupation of Poland at the start of World War 2. Horse drawn covered wagons driven by German soldiers advance on roads in Poland. Captive Polish soldiers POW (Prisoners of War) under German guard march in front of Polish citizens on streets in a city in Poland. Prisoners drink soup standing in line and rest on field. German soldiers give food to Polish children and their mother. Polish women and children stand in line to get food in a town square while a band plays music. Polish elderly women, elderly men, and children receive soup on various bowls and pitchers in soup line. They drink soup seated at long tables. German soldiers march into city of Chorzow (German name Konigshutte), bordering Germany, as Polish residents there cheer their arrival enthusiastically and raise their hands in Nazi salute. (Many residents there identified as "Volksdeutsch" with German heritage. Clip ends with brief scene of military honors funeral, showing German troops in Saarbrücken burying two French pilots, Lieutenant Jean Sueur and Captain Jacques Rosignol of 2 Escadrille de Reconnaissance 551, who were shot down September 11, 1939.
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