U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson escorts U.S. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson in Weilheim, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. Forth Worth Texas newspaperman Mr. Amon Carter talks to his son Lieutenant Amon Carter, Jr., recently liberated from a German prison camp. U.S. Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson escorts U.S. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Mr. Carter to U.S. XIX Corps area where they visit U.S. Army General Raymond S. McLain. Officers stand next to a sign : 'Truman Bridge leads to Berlin'.
The 1972 Summer Olympic games (XX Olympiad) in Munich, Germany. Men and women athletes, in civilian clothes, stroll about and relax in the garden walkways of the "Olympic village." A woman, with long hair, sits in the garden. An olympic official strolls amongst the athletes.
The Olympic Stadium in the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany prior to the 1972 Summer Olympics. An athlete gives autographs to people. People walk about.
United States tanks, and other vehicles of āAā and āCā Companies, 116th Cav Regt, 12th Armored Division, XXI Corps, Seventh US Army, move through Bavarian countryside towards Weilheim in Oberbayern during World War 2. POV the Bavarian Alps can be seen from the background of farmland as seen from moving tank. German prisoners, one with hands up briefly, clear road debris on road under direction of United States soldiers. A German soldier pulls a smoking bag out of the cargo area of a truck stopped on the road.
United States soldiers in a Bavarian town during World War 2. POV driving into village, two unarmed but uniformed German soldiers wave or show hands to greet. Sherman M4 tanks parked, army jeeps move through a road in Bavaria towards Weilheim in Oberbayern. A Sherman M4 tank dozer pushes logs blocking the road.
116th Cavalry Regiment, 12th Armored Division, XXI Corps, Seventh US Army move toward Weilheim in Oberbayern during World War 2. Burning farmhouses in Bavarian countryside. German soldiers run across a field, raising their hands to surrender. At Werdenfelser barracks ( Oflag VII-A ) POW camp for Polish Army officers, Polish prisoners wave their hands to welcome United States troops. United States soldiers enter prison camp gate. Behind barbed wire wall, Polish prisoners greet US troops. German soldiers with raised hands, running from camp. Corpses of two executed SS men, Colonel Max Teichmann and Captain Widmann (some sources claim one body is that of Ernst Otto Fick) shot at approx. 3 pm that day by U.S. 1st Tank Division forces as they attempted to leave Murnau. United States Army vehicles enter Murnau Germany.
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