Invasion of France by Germany during World War II. German soldiers on horseback move out of path in woods to join a convoy of mechanized troops proceeding along a road. German soldiers ride motorcycles with sidecars. Others ride bicycles. French prisoners of war, with hands raised, are hurriedly marched on opposite side of road, towards the rear. French citizen evacuees travel in horse-drawn carriages and by bicycle, away from the battle front.
Aerial views of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany towards the end of World War II. Aerial views showing prison barracks at the camp.
Aerial views of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany towards the end of World War II. Aerial views showing a crowd of inmates after their liberation. Aerial views of prison barracks.
Scenes from the Wöbbelin concentration camp in Ludwigslust, Germany, four days after the camp's liberation, towards the end of World War II in Europe. German civilians come out of a barracks building of the Wobbelin concentration camp building after viewing dead bodies of prisoners. U.S. soldiers entering and leaving the same building.
United States troops in Cham, Germany towards the end of World War II. Several U.S. soldiers who were formerly prisoners of the Germans are given rations and cigarettes by the passing Americans. One of the soldiers offers a German guard a cigarette.
Scenes from the period of the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. During preparation for exchange of prisoner, ethnic German victims walk in front of a line of captives and are seen pointing at and identifying Poles responsible for what the Germans called the Bromberg murders or Bloody Sunday (that occurred in Bydgoszcz). Polish Jews and Bolsheviks, whom the Nazis accuse of being partly responsible, are forced to perform hard labor. View of a row of Jewish men in Poland. Then a large group of Jewish and Bolshevik men seated together and being held captive in an outdoor setting (possibly Krakow area based on similar Bundesarchiv photographs). Scene of Jewish men and Bolshevik men at forced labor where they dig ditches and roads with shovels (slave labor).
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