U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division advance in Belgium during World War 2. U.S. Army Captain examines a snow-covered disabled M4 Sherman tank, with shell holes in it, in Sterpigny, Belgium. Damaged buildings all around. American soldiers look at a damaged German Panther tank. View of jeep approaching on road. Shattered trees along the roadside. (Note:This footage was shot in the town of Sterpigny, Belgium just after 16 January 1945. The 2nd Battalion, U.S. 330th Infantry Regiment was attached to the 3rd Armored Division and fought alongside tank units of the 3rd Armored Division against elements of the 9th SS Panzer Division to capture the town on 16 January.)
The activities of German soldiers in France during World War II. German Atlantic Wall fortifications on the French Channel coast. A soldier watches through binoculars. A tank traps on coast. The soldiers march with the rifles in one line. The officers and troops walk beside the tanks. The soldiers stand at attention and the tanks in the background. An officer reviews the troops. The German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects coastal defenses and the Panzergrenadier unit (German mechanized infantry) with their Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track armored personnel carriers. An alarm is sounded. The soldiers take positions and advance. The soldiers move into action. The German soldiers remove camouflage from coastal guns and fire artillery. A soldier in fox hole. German artillery guns.
Opening scene shows many thousands of Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung) gathered in a Nazi rally at Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg. They all render the Nazi salute as the German National Anthem is played over loudspeakers. Complete change of scene shows a military parade including many World War I veterans. They march past Crown Prince Wilhelm, who is seen in close-up, saluting the marchers with a classic military salute. (Several standing with him render Nazi salutes.) The parade ends with the National Anthem and massed flags. Next, German President, Paul von Hindenburg, leads a contingent of officials, walking past assembled military units. He strolls into an area where he exchanges salutes with uniformed men who render the classic (not Nazi) hand salute. Hindenburg salutes some disabled veterans of World War I. Film shifts back again to the Nazi rally at Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Storm troopers.
USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) units at Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. A USAF bomber in flight. A sign board reads 'Welcome to Ramey Air Force Base, Home of The 72nd Bomb Wing H, 72nd Combat Support Group'. SAC personnel board the USAF aircraft. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft taxis on an airstrip. Support and other crew personnel standing at the air base. An aircraft takes off. The building of U.S. Naval Air Station. Officers greet each other. An officer speaks to the Operation Duty Officer. Aerial views of the air base.
Orphans of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Large crowd outdoors on a hillside. Displaced children orphaned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp are sorted into small groups by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) personnel. Views of children who are displaced persons and orphans.
Orphan children from Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Jewish orphans are transported away from Buchenwald, Germany. A truck drives at a railway station. Orphans of Buchenwald Concentration Camp get off from trucks and move towards a train. The displaced persons with their belongings enter the train. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) official talking to boys in front of railroad car, one of the boys holds a banner. Jewish orphans of various nationalities walking next to railroad tracks with railroad cars, which will transport them to Switzerland. Construction material on ground. Children sorted into small groups and assigned places for transportation on railroad cars. Children board the train.
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