British, French and Belgian forces occupy city following refusal of post World War I reparation demands by the Allied countries. Allied troops advance into city of Dusseldorf, Germany. People gather on street. Cavalry patrols on road of the city and people watch them. British tanks stand on road, driven on road and soldiers walk past tank. Soldiers visible from the window of tank. Troops run past train. Crowd gathers to witness demonstration in a square of the German city, as citizens protest the demands and their effect on the German economy. Men stand on platform. One man holds board of Baron Von Lersner. Scene of a building with tome. Flag on a building half staffed. Cavalry soldiers walk past the crowd. Soldiers make human chain in front of crowd. Soldier stands on road.
2nd battalion 175th Infantry Regiment troops prepare to leave Aldenhoven, Germany. Soldiers sit in a jeep. Jeep goes past ruins of a house. Men stand besides the road. Troops load bed rolls on jeep. They load ammunition and supplies into jeeps as they prepare to leave. Soldiers hold ammunitions. Ammunitions placed in the jeep. Soldiers carry shells and boxes. Soldiers load supply and get into jeep. Troops carry and arrange ammunition in jeep. Houses in the city. (World War II period).
2nd Armored Division demonstration in Altdorf, Germany. British flame-thrower tanks 'Churchill' and infantrymen of the 41st infantry regiment, 2nd Armored Division, ninth U.S. army in demonstration of attack technique against small villages. Tanks throw heavy concentration of flames against buildings and houses at fire. Infantrymen run toward the houses. Tanks go in field. (World War II period).
2nd Armored Division demonstration in Altdorf, Germany. British flame-thrower tanks 'Churchill' throw heavy concentration of flames against houses at fire. Infantrymen of the 41st infantry regiment, 2nd Armored Division, 9th U.S. Army runs towards houses. (World War II period).
Slate indicates the area shown is occupied by the U.S. 3rd Army, 95th Infantry Division. Bombed out buildings are seen with rubble piled at side of road, in Saarlautern (Saarlouis) Germany, the day after Christmas, 1944, during World War 2. View of apartment buildings and shops across from a park. Another street of shops. No people or vehicles are seen. An American soldier carrying a large camera, walks past an antique French 155mm gun, circa 1877, on display in a public Square. A view of the seemingly undamaged Catholic Church of St. Ludwig (Katholische Kirche St. Ludwig) on Kavalleriestrasse. A jeep drives past it. A U.S. soldier rides a bicycle past destroyed buildings
United States soldiers 95th division in Saarlautern, Germany. Wreckage of buildings, leafless trees besides road. Soldiers on road besides ruins of the buildings, two soldiers repair damaged communication lines. Sign: Adolf Hitler Platz on side of a building. Soldier walks on road with wrecked building in the background. (World War II period).
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