Soviet forces break through German lines on Eastern front during Vistula-Oder Offensive of World War II. An animated map with arrows showing Soviet forces attacks against German forces in region from Warsaw and 100km South, to Radom. Soviet artillery and rocket batteries firing during battle. Aerial view of a formation of Soviet Ilyushin II-2 Sturmovik aircraft in flight. Bomb explosions and smoke shrouded battlefield. Soviet artillery fired. Views of burning buildings. Dead German soldiers on the ground and wrecked German artillery. Soviet tanks and infantry advance through dense smoke. Heavy Soviet guns fire; views of resulting explosions in distance. Soviet and Polish soldiers embrace in front of Polish National flag. Close-up views of solemn faces of Soviet and Polish soldiers during a flag ceremony. Polish soldier salutes the flag with two-finger salute.
Wreckage and ruined buildings in Warsaw, Poland following liberation of the city by Soviet forces in World War 2. Destroyed Warsaw streets with damaged buildings. Rubble and devastation everywhere. Damaged churches. A sign "Adolph Hitler Platz". A wrecked streetcar in foreground. A sign in German on a trolley car. Views of damaged monuments. Rubble everywhere. Polish natives. Warsaw inhabitants walking back to their ruined city. A Russian soldier embraces a young woman. Soviet Army color guard march through crowds in Warsaw. View of a Polish Army officer. The cheering crowd. A Polish girl in the crowd. Red army troops pass through the crowds. Ruined buildings in background destroyed by Nazi German forces. Soviet Russian planes fly over the city.
U.S. 99th Infantry Division enters Wetzlar, Germany. A platoon of infantry of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Regiment, first element of 99th Infantry Division enters the city and citizens watch. Soldiers carrying rifles walk along in the streets. German civilians carrying their belongings walk along the streets. An army tank filled with soldiers moves past. View of Ernst Leitz optical factory. U.S. soldiers in the foreground. (World War II period).
Traffic over Main River in Mulheim, Germany. Vehicles of U.S. 90th Division cross a temporary bridge over the main river. Various views of trucks passing over the bridge. Factories in the background. Soldiers seated in a jeep cross the bridge. (World War II period).
A prison camp for Allied airmen at Dulag-Luft near Wetzlar, Germany in World War II. Colonel Charles W Stark of Orlando, Florida senior officer at camp and Lieutenant Commander Robert E Jennings of the U.S. Navy. Smiling liberated prisoners stand behind barbed wire fence. Sign reads "Women Only". Views of individuals, liberated U.S. and Allied soldiers. Many prisoners wearing bandages and on crutches. Group of smiling prisoners pose with German Army doctor who attended to them while at camp. Colonel Stark speaks with some of the men.
A prison camp for Allied airmen at Dulag-Luft near Wetzlar, Germany. Views of German officers who ran the prison camp in World War II. Allied prisoners of war enter wooden building marked "staged Door Canteen". Liberated prisoners shake hands with some of the U.S. soldiers who were captured in the town. Many prisoners wearing bandages and on crutches. Plane fly over camp area. Prison camp, group of liberated prisoners wave and smile in front of signs indicating distances to London, New York and others.
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