Streets scenes in Vannes, France. A street sign reads Vannes. Buildings and trees seen in the background. Streets show wreckage in the town. A military convoy moves through the town. The main street. Civilians walk through the streets. French women talk to GIs in jeeps. Streets filled with people. The people wave in the streets. Officers sit at a table with maps. A medical unit lined up. A man poses holding a flower. People sit in an outdoor cafe. An MP (Military Police) at the MP headquarter.
Buildings alongside streets in Vannes, France. Flags and flowers hung up across the streets. A woman walks through a street. Civilians with bicycles walk on streets. A man carries an effigy of Hitler's head on a stick. People stand around the effigy. Buildings seen in the background.
Refugees and evacuees returning to Vannes, France during World War 2. A girl rides a bicycle with a baby in the basket. Buildings seen alongside the streets in the background. Civilians stand outside a building. Some people walk on streets. A British officer looks through binoculars and a nurse powders her nose. Trees seen in the background. The exterior of an Institute building used as a Headquarters by German Field Marshal Günther von Kluge. A sign near building steps warning of mines. A jeep on a road. The refugee return with their belongings. Mothers with babies. Nuns escorting children who just arrived by bus. Stone walls in the background. Horse carts loaded with luggage on the roads.
French civilians and officers in Vannes, France. French women walk through the streets along the side a pond. Buildings seen at the side of streets. Civilians walk and move on bicycles. Officers inspect equipment. A woman stands near the equipment on a field.
Cheering Parisians on the streets in Paris, France. A truck loaded with cheering civilians and an American light tank moves through the streets. Trees on either side of the streets. Flying French and British flags on a building. The flag tilted down to Canadians in a jeep. The jeep pulls away from the building and goes through a huge crowd. Cheering Parisians wave arms. A girl kisses a soldier. Soldiers drink from a bottle of wine. A British soldier raises a glass in a toast. French General Charles de Gaulle in the crowd, talking to other French officers. Officers stand near him. A car leaves, trying to make progress through the cheering crowd. Final scene shows allied soldiers talking to or interrogating a line of at least 6 Nazi German officers who were captured and being held prisoner. (World War II period).
Parisian civilians cheer the arrival of foodstuff in Paris, France. A statue in front of a building. Trucks on the streets. Buildings in the background. A group of captured high German officers at a railroad station leaving for internment. Food trucks pass through the city streets. People cheer the arrival of the food trucks. Children talk with soldiers. Bags of supplies are unloaded. A crowd around an army truck loaded with food. French soldiers with truckloads of foodstuffs. Supplies are unloaded from the trucks. Soldiers fraternize with civilians. (World War II period).
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