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Allied liberation of Reims, France (WW2)
Armed French Resistance fighters pose near roadside sign at entrance to city of Reims, France, on August 30, 1944. American soldiers converse with French priests and Resistance fighters. Residents gather at the Royal Square by the statue of Louis XV. The towers of Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral (Pl. du Cardinal Luçon, 51100 Reims, France) can be seen behind. An American soldier can be seen. A brief ceremony ensues in which French Resistance fighters appear to take responsibility for reoccupation of the city. They then proceed through the city on a truck with loudspeakers, making announcements. U.S. soldiers mingle with residents of the city. (World War II period)
British Conservative MP Mavis Tate with other British Members of Parliament at the Buchenwald Concentration camp in Germany.
British conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Mavis C.Tate,and another MP, sitting in an American jeep with top up, speak with a British officer. They and several other jeeps, carrying visiting British MPs proceed into the liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. An effigy of a prisoner is seen illustrating form of punishment meted out to inmates. The visiting party includes: Mrs. Tate; Sir Graham White; Sir Henry James; Lord Stanhope; Lord Addison; Sir Archibald Southby; Lieutenant Colonel Wickham; Ness Edward; M. Silverman; and Tom Driberg. Accompanied by U.S. and British officers, they walk about among the camp buildings, where cleanup is underway. A large mass of camp debris is being burned. Freed inmates are seen throughout the camp. Some of them speak with the MPs and explain things to them. Mrs. Tate converses with former prisoners who show their tatooed identification numbers. (World War II period).
Americans capture Fort Obergentringen and turn its guns on Germans in Thionville, France, during World War II
American soldiers of the U.S. 90th Infantry Division, walking atop captured Fort Obergentringen, Near Thionville, on the west side of the Moselle River, in World War 2. Next, the Fort's German Krupp 105mm guns are seen firing numerous shells at German positions in Thionville, east of the river. American soldiers with binoculars observe the shell strikes from the fort. Smoke rising from the shelling. [Note: A September 17, 1944 wireless report about the fort's capture , to the New York Times, by Frederick Grahamby, stated that "The fort's name is Gingringen and from 1870 to 1919 it belonged to Germany." However, it is actually Fort Obergentringen (Fort Guentrange) on the hills of Guentrange, overlooking Thionville, and built in 1899.]
The Eiffel Tower in Paris and a huge crowd rejoicing on Victory in Europe Day in Paris, France.
V-E Day celebrations in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower in Paris. Fountains in front of the tower. A large crowd rejoicing on the victory day. A large crowd in front of a building. Streets filled with people. Men and women move along the streets. A large crowd in front of a gateway across a road. People hold up posters of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. A few people move on the streets seated in trucks. A woman reading a newspaper which carries victory news. A man and a woman walk along a path reading the newspaper. Newspaper vendors selling the newspapers. A large group of people buying the newspapers. A woman carrying a small girl. A soldier kissing a woman. (World War II period).
Frenchmen repatriated from Nazi concentration camp are processed in France (WW2)
Repatriation of French prisoners from a German Nazi concentration camp in Paris, France. Two former prisoners dressed in striped prison uniforms seated at a table. A nurse stands behind them. One of the prisoners has his head bandaged. He has a number on his uniform. The prisoners leave the room. Two officers seated at the table. The prisoner with the bandaged head removes his uniform. A nurse behind him. Another former prisoner shows the Nazi concentration camp prison number tattoo on his arm. Several prisoners take showers. An army doctor examines a former prisoner. In an adjacent room, a nurse talks to a prisoner seated across a table. The doctor examining a former prisoner. Several nurses examining the repatriated prisoners and using a spray delousing agent to spray clothing of the men. (World War II period).
Prudential House and other ruined buildings in Warsaw; citizens clearing rubble in Warsaw, Poland.
View near the Napoleon Square (Plac Napoleona) in Warsaw, Poland (later Warsaw Insurgents Square) soon after the end of World War 2. Sunset view toward Świętokrzyska Street, of the (then) tallest building in Poland: The gutted Prudential Insurance Company building or "Prudential House" (which was later rebuilt as the Hotel Warszawa). View of men and women clearing rubble of buildings in Warsaw, Poland. Ruins of buildings. Men and women citizens clearing rubble of the ruined buildings. Men at work in the area using large sledgehammers to break rubble into smaller pieces for transport. A woman carrying a stack of bricks among the ruins of the building. Several men at work in the rubble of buildings.
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