Decoration of U.S. army officers in Berchtesgaden, Germany, at the former Reichskanzlei in Staggass, a week after the end of World War II in Europe. U.S. Major General Maxwell D. Taylor pins DSC (Distinguished Service Cross), Legion of Merit, and Silver Stars on U.S. officers. U.S. soldiers stand in a formation on lawn. Field Marshal Keitel's house and "Sleeping Witch" mountain in the background. Infantry march along a road. Brigadier General Gerald J. Higgins being awarded the Silver Star and Colonel William Gilmore receives promotion to Brigadier General.
German civilians around a bomb damaged building in Nuremberg, Germany during World War II. German civilians gather fire wood from bomb damaged buildings. Civilians line up with buckets as they wait to get water. Civilians walk with buckets of water. Bomb damaged building at the back.
U.S. Red Cross Clubmobile at the Hanover Concentration Camp in Hanover, Germany during World War II. Atrocity victims and survivors walk behind barbed wire fences at the camp. Survivors are provided with food. The survivors covered with blankets sleep. Men carry and bury a dead body. An AMG (Allied Military Government) sergeant checks a list of inmates.
German civilians at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany immediately after World War II. German citizens from the neighboring town of Weimar walk along the road to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. They are shown lampshades made of human heads and human skin parchment made for painting pictures at the camp. Allied soldiers stand around. German citizens see an Allied soldier with a trenchfoot injury. They look at a truck loaded with emaciated bodies.
Dead bodies of prisoners at the Nazi Dachau Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany immediately after the conclusion of World War II in Europe. Local town people view the piles of emaciated dead bodies stacked inside a building. Women cry and walk out of the building after viewing heaps of dead bodies of atrocity victims. A tour of a gas chamber shows an Allied soldier entering a shower bath area. Dummy shower heads, intake and outlet pipes, inflow and outtake gas valves in the gas chamber. Bodies in a crematory after removal from the gas chamber. Survivors of the Dachau camp.
Freed Allied prisoners of war at OFLAG XIII-B, known as Camp Hammelburg, outside of Gemünden, Germany during World War II. A group of United States, Czech, Russian, Yugoslav prisoners of war standing together along with the liberating 14th U.S. Armored Division soldiers. Two prisoners talk to each other. The prisoners cheering, waving and laughing. Two prisoners walk down the road smiling; one waving a copy of Yank Magazine, the other a chunk of bread. U.S. Amry M-4 tank crashes through barbed wire fence of Camp Hammelburg. A group of freed prisoners gathers. Several prisoners stand and pose. Mass gathering of elated former prisoners. Freed prisoners of war dash toward U.S. soldiers and embrace them. (Note: This was the conclusion of the originally failed "Operation Hammelburg", initially attempted by "Task Force Baum," under Captain Abraham Baum, ten days prior. Inmates at the camp included the recently injured and captured Captain Baum, and Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters, son in law of U.S. Army General George Patton. LTC John Waters was injured during the initial rescue attempt 10 days prior and was hospitalized and not seen in this film.)
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