French women traitors or women collaborationists with shaved heads along the side of the road after Allied liberation of Cherbourg, France in World War II. A few women are seen seated, and a few are standing. Two boys holding a banner behind them. A man on a walkway picks up a pile of hair and tosses it in air. A group of men standing. A man trying to cut the hair of a woman. The woman bending over not letting the man. Another woman sits beside her. A man shaves the hair of the woman. 'Le Char Des Collaboratrices' written on a banner. A group of people move in a truck. One of the men holding the banner. A few men and women beside the truck.
Civilians in Paris celebrate the liberation of France during World War II. Crowd of many men and women gathered outside a building. 'Royal' written on one of the boards on the building. A vehicle arrives in front of the building. People beside the vehicle. French women collaborationists and some men collaborators with raised hands come out of the building. A crowd jeers at them. Officers in front of the crowd. More women come out of the building with raised hands. Men and women look at them. The officers at the entrance door of the building. The women get into the vehicle. The crowd mobbing around the vehicle. An officer beside the door of the vehicle. Two men seated on top of the vehicle. The vehicle leaves the area. The crowd in front of the building.
German prisoners of war in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France after World War II. A vehicle outside a building on a street in Strasbourg. American and German officers coming out of the building and boarding the vehicle. The officers holding baggages in their hands. The officers getting down from the vehicle. German Commander of Strasbourg Major General Vatterrodt talking to Major McIntire and Captain R. H. Huret. A building in the background. Several German prisoners of war along the side of the road in front of a building. German officers beside a U.S. Army truck. The German prisoners of war getting into the U.S. Army truck. More German prisoners of war lined up to get into trucks to be taken to prisoner of war camps.
A concentration camp for French collaborationists in Drancy, France after World War II. The courtyard of the concentration camp is filled with people. Buildings of the camp in the background. People in the courtyard. Men and women standing and talking. The people walking about in the courtyard. Women in balconies of a building looking at the crowd below. Clothes hanging on railings of the balconies. Men and women collaborationists filing through a doorway escorted by FFI (French Forces of the Interior) men.
Repatriation of French war prisoners and civilians in Paris, France after World War II. French former prisoners waiting at an airfield with their baggage. The buildings on the airfield. A few former prisoners lying down. One of them lies near a French tricolor flag. A U.S. C-47 aircraft on the airfield. The freed prisoners walk towards the aircraft with their baggages and board. An American officer stands near the entrance of the aircraft. A few officers talk near the aircraft. The prisoners board the aircraft one by one. The American officer stands just outside the aircraft and peeks in and checks the passengers. The pilot and the co-pilot at the controls in the cockpit during the flight. The freed prisoners in the aircraft looking out through the windows. One smokes a cigarette and the smoke is drawn out through a small porthole in the airplane window. Interior scenes of the crowded aircraft.
Repatriation of French war prisoners and civilians in Paris, France after World War II. Repatriated French General Meunier disembarking from an aircraft with other repatriates. The General talks to a few men and a woman. General Meunier reviewing the honor guard. The French honor guard presenting arms. French prisoners of war marching past the honor guard. The prisoners getting off the aircraft at an airfield. The prisoners moving in a line from inside the aircraft and getting off. A few prisoners wait outside the aircraft with their baggages.
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