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.
Buchenwald concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany, following its liberation during World War II. Liberated inmates walking about in the camp. Barracks in the background. U.S. Army soldiers enter the concentration camp. The prison with the barracks and barbed wire fence. Starved and emaciated inmates of the camp sit near camp fires in courtyard of the camp. Concentration camp victims wearing striped prison uniforms. A jeep in the front and a truck painted white and marked with 'Switzerland' and 'Red Cross' drives past along a path. The barracks with the inmates and barbed wire fence in the foreground. A sign on a barrack reads 'All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army'. The U.S. flag and the Polish flag above the sign. A crowd of inmates cheers looking at a picture of Stalin on a barrack.
Repatriation of French war prisoners and civilians in Paris, France toward the end of World War Two. Three U.S. C-47aircraft in flight approaching the Le Bourget airport. A fleet of U.S.Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft parked on the ramp and some taxiing. Ambulances and vehicles are positioned on the ramp as repatriated French soldiers deplane. Soldiers with their belongings moving in loose formation along the ramp. A C-47 taxiing. Its tail number is 42-24174, belonging to the 34th Troop Carrier Squadron, 315th Troop Carrier Group, of the U.S. 9th Air Force. An Air France JU-52 passenger aircraft is parked on the ramp, and civilians deplane, including Marcel Bloch, a French aircraft builder,who had been imprisoned in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, until April 11, 1945. (He later changes his name to Dassault, which will also become the name of his aircraft company, after the war). Also among the passengers is Marcel Rene, director of the French paper 'Resistance.' Several views of the aircraft's pilot and the civilian passengers.
Evidence of Nazi atrocities at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Ettersberg and Weimar Germany. U.S. soldier in U.S. Army jacket shows a German book entitled "On the Question of Tattooing". View of human skins of atrocity and human experiment victims with various tattoos displayed on a table. Shrunken human head of a prisoner. The head is mounted on a pedestal. Another head of a prisoner. A laterally cut human head in a glass jar filled with liquid. A soldier turns the jar to show the external and internal view of the cutaway head. (World War II period).
Scenes at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, 4 days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Prisoners demonstrate atrocities committed by Nazi German captors: Three prisoners stand. A bench placed nearby. One man climbs on a stool and demonstrates the tying of a double looped rope around a victim's neck, designed to strangle the prisoner. The man demonstrating the victim then falls to the ground. Another liberated prisoner then demonstrates the use of a wooden club to hit the head of the fallen victim. A damaged club. Elevated view of Buchenwald Concentration Camp buildings as seen from a tower or high gate. View of some of the mounted searchlights at the camp.
United States Ship Hancock CV-19 during Project Steam in Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy AJ Savage on the flight deck. Crewmen work on a bomb in a dolly. They use various tools.
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