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German Generalleutnant Dittmar formally surrenders to U.S. soldiers in Magdeburg, Germany during World War II.

German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)

Date: 1945, April 25
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066638
The Konzerthaus and French and German Cathedrals at the destroyed Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Germany, at end of WW2 in Europe.

Workers installing pilings to re-enforce wrecked buildings at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, at the end of World War II, in Europe. Wide shot of The Konzerthaus Berlin (Konzerthaus Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany) with wrecked military and civilian vehicles in the square. Close up of detonated mortar shell. Steps of The Konzerthaus showing heavy bomb damage. Statue of Apollo, in a chariot drawn by two griffins, atop the building. The statue of a cherub, perched on a lion, playing pipes, and one on a panther, playing a harp. Camera pans from The Konzerthaus to The French Cathedral (Französischer Dom, Gendarmenmarkt 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany) and then to the German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom) at the Gendarmenmarkt. All buildings in Gendarmenmarkt sustained damage from the war.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069000
German civilians purchase and read the first American newspaper printed in Aachen, Germany.

The first American newspaper in Aachen, Germany is printed during World War II. Crowds in the streets of Allied-occupied Aachen. A U.S. General speaks as the first American newspaper to be printed in Germany is dedicated. Presses roll and the first copies are produced which are then purchased and read by German civilians.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070697
U.S. Fifth Armored Division, Prince Arenberg with wife, Duke of Croy and a parachutist in Nordkirchen Castle in Dülmen, Germany

United States Fifth Armored Division in Dülmen, Germany after World War II. U.S. Fifth Armored Division vehicles and soldiers on the bank of a water body. A few soldiers sitting on the shore of the water body. A castle on the other side of the water body. View of the Nordkirchen Castle (Schloß 1, 59394 Nordkirchen, Germany) in Dülmen. Troops on armored vehicles near the entrance of the castle. View of the castle with a courtyard and a statue near the entrance. GIs in the courtyard of the castle. A parachutist colonel holding a document talks to Prince Engelbert-Charles of Arenberg, the 10th Duke von Arenberg. Soldiers in the background. The parachutist colonel and the Duke von Arenberg walk down the steps of the castle. The Duke von Arenberg talking to British war correspondents. The correspondents taking down notes. The Karl Rudolf, 13th Duke of Croÿ flanked by the Duke von Arenberg and his wife Princess Valerie Marie Schleswig-Holstein. The Duke of Croy and the Princess talking to the parachutist colonel. All of them talking near the entrance door of the castle.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055130
Stack of naked bodies at crematorium and pile of prison uniforms removed from dead at Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

Scenes of Nazi atrocities at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany at the time of its liberation in World War 2. Bodies of victims heaped in railroad cars at railroad siding in Dachau, Germany. Faces and emaciated bodies of dead prisoners. Stack of naked bodies at crematorium. Huge pile of prison uniforms, hats, and other type of clothing removed from dead. Railroad car filled with bodies of victims. The United Nations flags over liberated camp. Flags of France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, England and United States.

Date: 1945, April 30
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055236
Dignitaries, civilians during a ceremony and prisoners hold flags and banners in Dachau, Germany.

Liberated prisoners during a ceremony at Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany. Freed prisoners, dignitaries and civilians during the ceremony. Prisoners hold flags, banners and a sketch of a dignitary. Women hold flags of their own countries. Prisoner sits on the roof of a house. American officer on stage holds the American flag. Prisoners stand with flags of America, Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia and other allied flags. Civilians, dignitaries and prisoners stand at the back. Prisoners standing and sitting on the roof watch the ceremony. An American officer on a stage holds flag of America. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055271