A daylight raid by Commandos of the US-Canadian First Special Service Forces on a German Outpost in Anzio, Italy during World War II. German prisoners of war march on a road. Allied troops around a disabled M4 Sherman tank in a water filled shell crater. The troops dig around the tank.
Operation Little Switch (first part of Operation Big Switch) in which released POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo. Two repatriated soldiers play chess on a bed. The soldiers playing chess. A soldier with a cigarette. The soldiers in a group play dominoes in a hospital ward.
Victims of a Nazi concentration camp in Germany during World War II. Corpses lying on the ground at the concentration camp. A U.S. officer interrogates a camp prisoner. Charred bodies of victims. A human leg sticks out of a lime pit and bloody water.
Trade unions in a building in Hamburg, Germany. At an outdoor ceremony Colonel Armetage, British Military Government, restores free trade unions and union buildings for the people of Hamburg. Paul Bebert, formerly a prisoner in a World War 2 Nazi concentration camp, speaks to a crowd and then mounts a scaffold and with a hammer and a chisel destroys a swastika on the facade of a building.
German prisoners of war march in Austria at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They march in loose formation in the roadway, over the Nibelungen Bridge (Nibelungenbrücke, 4020 Linz, Austria), in Linz. Several women bring up the rear of the formation. Some German civilians are seen, carrying belongings, going the opposite direction, on a sidewalk on the other side of the bridge. The Danube River is in the background. The formation of surrendering German soldiers turns at end of the bridge and proceeds through the town. A convoy of trucks in the background. American soldiers follow the formation and others are seen along their path. Civilians watch as they pass.
Tank battle at Soviet Union front during World War II. Map of battle front in Soviet Union. German German armored half-tracks and Pz.IV tanks move on a snow-covered field. German planes in formation, overhead. German Nashorn and Hummel SP guns in action. Troops move on an open field. A German soldier watches through binoculars. Soviet decoy tanks (fabric skin of tank over a frame object to disguise and make them appear like real tanks) and damaged Soviet tanks on the ground. Tanks fire artillery. Smoke in the background. Soviet prisoners of war being walked. German Panther and Tiger tanks advance on a field.
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