United States troops in Cham, Germany towards the end of World War II. Several U.S. soldiers who were formerly prisoners of the Germans are given rations and cigarettes by the passing Americans. One of the soldiers offers a German guard a cigarette.
German General Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt in Weilheim, Germany after his capture by the U.S. Army towards the end of World War II in Europe. General Field Marshal Rundstedt speaks with Commander of U.S. XXI Corps Major General Frank W. Milburn. General Field Marshal Rundstedt steps from a car and enters a building. Interiors of a room shows General Field Marshal Rundstedt smoking. He walks out of the building followed by U.S. officials.
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'.
German civilians in Grimma, Germany near the end of World War 2. They stand on the east bank of the Mulde River waiting to cross it.
A Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany towards the end of World War II. A sign reads 'Landsberg Reg.Bez.Oberbayern'. German civilians arrive at the concentration camp. U.S. soldiers at the camp. Prison barracks and barbed wire fences at the camp. Civilians dig graves to bury dead bodies of camp victims. U.S. soldiers climb on a watch tower. Emaciated corpses of camp victims lying on the ground. The civilians dig graves in the background.
A Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany 10 days before the end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. soldiers at the camp. Emaciated corpses of camp victims lying on the ground. Barbed wire fences and prison barracks at the camp. A U.S. soldier talks with liberated prisoners. (Note: A surviving prisoner of this camp, who was liberated at this time, adds that the front gate was on fire early in the morning as the U.S. Army entered the camp site.)
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