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SS Division Gotz von Berlichingen move toward Saint-Lo, capture Allied prisoners (WW2)

German Stug IV tank moving in the Battle of Saint-Lo during World War II. SS Division Gotz von Berlichingen troops move alongside tanks on the road. A tank covered in camouflage rolls along the road. German soldier wearing camouflage leaves hide behind a bush. German soldiers duck for cover after firing a 8 cm Granatwerfer 34 mortar. German soldier puts another shell into mortar. Explosion in the forest. A tank covered with camouflage leaves rolls along the road with its hatch open. German infantry trails behind a German Stug III tank. German troops hide behind hedgerows. German forces advance through hedgerows. Explosion from artillery. A camouflaged German soldier observes using a binocular. United States M4 Sherman tanks on fire in the middle of a field. Debris inside empty American tanks after being captured by Germans. The road to Saint-Lo is littered with Allied materiel. German forces capture more American tanks on the road to Saint-Lo. German officer points to hole in tank turret. German soldiers inspect a wrecked gun, with a dead body of an Allied soldier crushed underneath. A camouflaged car passes by a burning truck on the road to Saint-Lo. More devastated and destroyed materiel and tanks are found near Saint-Lo. German soldier marches behind captured British prisoners as a passing tank swats on with camouflage branches. British and American prisoners are taken to a prisoners’ collection point. Signs read “Löfel” and “Div. Gefangenen Sammelstelle” (“Division prisoners collection point” in English). Allied soldier’s back jacket reads “Patchie P.A. Jersey”. American prisoners sitting. Some American prisoners are seen wearing the shoulder patch of the 29th Division. German guard is seen wearing a SS Division Gotz von Berlichingen and Nazi Eagle Insignia patches on his arm. Defiant American soldier sitting. An Asian-American prisoner chewing straw turns his head away from the camera.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079442
Otto von Habsburg sails a yacht and plays golf with his family in Saint Jean de Luz

Exiled members of the Habsburg Dynasty on vacation in Southern France. A cyclist passes by outside the hotel Villa D'Iris in St. Jean de Luz, France (16 Rue de Sainte-Barbe, 64500 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.) Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Pretender to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on a yacht with his family. Former Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma (wife of the late Emperor Charles I of Austria) descends on stone steps. A young blond man in swimming trunks (possibly Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria) stands nearby. Otto von Habsburg gets inside a car with an attendant. A yacht sails away. Otto von Habsburg and some family members walk in a golf course. An attendant opens the villa gate for a car. The Archduke and his siblings are golfing in St. Jean de Luz.

Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079990
British and American C-47 tow planes and gliders during Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II

Aerial view of many USAAF Troop Carrier Command C-47 aircraft,together with gliders, parked on a field in England. The aircraft and gliders are all painted in D-Day stripes. Views on ground of C-47s taking off towing gliders behind. Formation of C-47s and gliders overhead. Views from an aircraft in a formation. Below, the Portland Bill lighthouse & directional beacon (code-named Flatbush) is seen as the formation departs the English coast. (Note: film view of Portland Bill light is reversed. Roundabout should appear to right of the lighthouse.) Closeup of a glider in the formation. View from a ship, in the English Channel, as an airplane crashes and explodes on the French coast. Aerial view of landing craft on the Normandy beach, as the formation passes overhead. View of French fields flooded by the Germans. Aerial view of parachutes from U.S. Army paratroopers who had dropped into France the night before (June 5th), but no sign of the troops themselves. Masses of gliders on the ground. View inside a glider as it cuts loose from its C-47 tow plane. View from ground as gliders cut loose and maneuver for landing. View of a glider that crashed into a German Headquarters building, and view of another landing in water. Allied gliders destroyed (some burning) and damaged by German gunfire and passive defenses (15 foot poles planted closely in landing zones). A German artillery piece concealed at the edge of a landing zone. American troops, from the gliders, marching into Saint Marcouf, France. Montage of Allied advances and gunfire. Road sign pointing to Sainte Marie-du Mont and Carentan. U.S. troops moving through French town of Sainte Marie-du Monte. U.S. troops riding in a captured German Ketenkrad tracked motorcycle.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045255
Allied drive through Normandy to Saint Lo, France, in World War II

Battle-weary American soldiers attend an open air chuch service by a barn in Normandy. U.S. gunners commence a concerted artillery barrage before tanks and infantry advance toward Saint Lo, France, in World War 2. Various artillery and tanks are seen, including one M4 Sherman Crab Tank (Mine sweeper). P-47s, flying low altitude close support missions, bomb a critical target, and troops move ahead on the way to Saint Lo. Two German soldiers run to surrender. Saint Lo falls. Scenes of the devastation in the city.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024435
Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer visit various monuments after the fall of Paris during World War II.

German occupation in Paris France following Battle of France in World War II. French prisoners of war (POWs) remove protective coverings from the Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde. The POWs remove sandbags from around the Obelisk and Napoleon's Tomb. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and Nazi Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer tour the city by car. Hitler and Speer arrive at the Church of Sainte-Marie Madeleine (Place de la Madeleine, 75008 Paris, France). French policemen salute as Hitler drives by. They visit the Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France) and Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). Hitler, Speer and others view the Eiffel Tower(Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France).

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021851
Albert Lebrun's son marries a tennis player as photographers take pictures of the couple in France.

French President Albert Lebrun's son, Jean Lebrun, marries a tennis player in Rambouillet, France. People gather outside the Rambouillet City Hall (2 Pl. de la Libération, 78120 Rambouillet, France). A man greets a woman. Photographers take pictures of the bride and groom. President Lebrun with his son and the bride. Guards and minister walk out of the Église Saint-Lubin-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church (Pl. Jeanne d'Arc, 78120 Rambouillet, France) after the wedding ceremony. The newlywed couple poses. President Lebrun with his wife, Marguerite Lebrun.

Date: 1932, October 17
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078170