Troopers of the 28th Constabulary Squad of the United States Army leave a command post at Bad Steben near Hof in Germany. Convoy of jeeps and M-8 armored vehicles moves through the streets of Bad Steben and then to the country side. It moves past a station on dusty roads in Lichtenberg. Jeeps and armored vehicle take position on side of a bridge. Squad reaches the Russian border. A signboard in Russian warns against unauthorized crossing.
Officials of the Allied military at a Nazi concentration camp in Dachau in Germany. A soldiers opens the leakage proof door of a gas chamber. Sign over the door in German 'Shower Bath'. Pile of starved dead bodies in room adjoining the gas chamber. General Alexander Patch of the United States Army and other soldiers at the camp. (World War II period).
Dachau concentration camp in Germany, after liberation in final days of World War 2. Sign on railroad station building 'Dachau'. Free standing corner post decorated with figures on top, showing three German soldiers in one direction and a German soldier pointing two German musicians in the other direction. One musician has a bass fiddle on his back and carries a folded umbrella. The other carries an accordion. Sign on the entrance to the Concentration Camp: 'Quarantine, Typhus. This concentration camp is off limits to all civil and military personnel. By order of General Patch, CG, Seventh Army'. Christian altars with Mother Mary, a monstrance, and an altar card at the concentration camp. Pile of dead bodies of victims of Nazi atrocities carried in horse carts by German civilians wearing gas masks.
A Nazi concentration camp in Dachau in Germany. Funeral ceremony for victims of the camp. Star of David at a ceremonial site. U.S. Army chaplain (Rabbi) Captain David Max Eichhorn, steps out of a jeep and is greeted by inmates. Male inmates attend funeral services. Inmates in tears. One inmate speaks . Flags behind the ceremonial place.
Views of damage in the city of Wiesbaden in Germany during end of World War II. Civilians walking on a street. Damaged buildings due to bombing. Statue of Kaiser Friedrich III seen between demolished buildings. Ruins and debris of buildings destroyed by aerial bombardment in World War 2. Sign over an archway reads "Kaiser Frederich Platz."
American and Russian military officials meeting at Torgau Germany at close of World War II in Europe; an event sometimes referred to as East Meets West. Forces of U.S. Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, Commander of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division and Russian officer Major General Rusakov, Commander of the 58th Guard Division meet. Officers stand in front of a building damaged due to bombing. They shake hands and talk to each other.
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