United States troops in Germany near end of World War II. United States tanks and armored vehicles, including Sherman Calliope rocket launcher, drive across a pontoon bridge. Soldiers aboard half-tracks and along the bridge.Views from underneath the steel tracks as tanks and vehicles pass overhead. View from inside a vehicle crossing the bridge to the other side. Troops walk on the bridge.
Freed, former Allied prisoners of war being released from Germany during World War II. Former POWs march with baggage in hand, including British, American, and Soviet Russian freed soldiers. In a prison barracks, views of emaciated British soldiers with thin arms and legs due to starvation at German prison camp. British prisoner of war lying in bed.
Nazi Concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Women prisoners of war at Penig Concentration Camp. American doctors examine the young victims. Women sleep in bed. Woman shows gangrene on her foot. Women being removed from these camps in stretchers and taken to waiting ambulances. Nazis are forced to look after the patients they tortured. Nurses attend women patients.
Nazi concentration camps in Germany. Inspection team composed of Allied Military leaders, members of United States Congress and local people at Ohrdruf concentration camp. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. General Omar Nelson Bradley and George S. Pattern inspect the camp. General Eisenhower speaks to Congressmen. Heap of dead bodies. Alive inmates demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazis. (World War II period).
Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II. United States officers arrive at Hadamar Concentration Camp (or Hadamar Euthanasia Centre) where Polish, Russian and German political and religious dissidents were murdered. Major Herman Boelke of the WCIT (War Crimes Investigation Team) examines the survivors. Bodies exhumed from mass graves for examination, identification and burial at the graveyard. Corps lined up for inspection by WCIT. Major Herman Bolker examines the bodies. The panel interviews German facility Director, Doctor Adolf Wahlmann, with head nurse Karl Willig, who gave overdoses of Morphine to the prisoners to kill them.
Activity in Germany during World War II. A number of United States Army Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft parked along a runway. The aircraft taxi and take off from the runway.
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