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The True Glory 1945: Reel-9

Public Domain Stock Footage The True Glory 1945: Reel-9

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keywords: WWII, European Theater, Combat In Europe, Allied Bombing Campaign, Allied POWs Liberated, Nazi War Crimes, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany Surrenders

Synopsis: Detailing the WWII Invasion of Western Europe and combat in Europe with scenes of Allied bombers attacking targets, liberation of Allied POWs, Nazi atrocities at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, German leaders signing surrender documents, Allied forces move deeper into Germany, the end of WWII, German General Alfred Jodl signs surrender, crosses in cemeteries, bombed out building in Germany and more...(read more)

  • Date: 1945
  • Duration: 00:09:51
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Europe

The True Glory 1945: Reel-9

The True Glory 1945 Reel-9

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R9:00:00:12:00

Allied bombers bombing the Ruhr Pocket, the first big objective after Allied forces cross the Rhine river into Germany. Allied ground forces advancing. Large number of German POWs imprisoned in a Rheinwiesenlager Rhine meadow camps. British troops on an advancing British tank. U.S. POWs are liberated from German prisoner of war camp. Newspaper headline reads FDR Dead.

R9:00:01:24:20

Displaced persons used as slave labors by the Nazis walking along a roadway. Image of Josef Kramer, Commander of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Nazi atrocities at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Many bodies of dead prisoners that had not been buried. Victims of Nazi brutality being dumped or thrown into a mass grave. Survivors of a German concentration camp. Starving prisoner trying to grab potatoes out of a moving cart.

R9:00:04:00:12

Scenes at conference tables as German leaders sign surrender documents. U.S. and Russian troops meet at the Elbe River. Scenes of a Russian banner that read Our Greeting To The Heroes Army of United States of America.

R9:00:05:14:13

U.S. soldiers fight their way into Hamburg, Germany. German civilians waving white flags. British Field Marshall Bernhard Montgomery watches as a German Military Officer signs surrender documents. German civilians walking along street in a bombed-out German city. Soldier posting Military Laws in a German city as German civilians look on. Destroyed buildings and piles of rubble.

R9:09:00:06:07:00

Two German women and two young boys watch as Allied tank passes. One young boy raises hand to wave as older boy knocks his hand down. Allied Forces move deeper into German. Thousands of German POWs being marched to one of the Rheinwiesen camps or prison camps established by the Allies in the German Rhineland.

R9:00:06:39:08

The end of WWII in Europe. The last flashes of artillery fire at one minute after midnight May 9, 1945 the guns of WWII stop, D-Day plus 337 days. Signing of the final surrender documents by German General Alfred Jodl on May 6, 1945.

R9:00:07:25:06

Scenes of crosses in cemeteries. High ranking German Officers surrendering. CU of German Reich Marshal Hermann Goring as an American takes his pistol. Lone American soldier walking past bodies of dead Germans, piles of rubble, and bombed-out buildings in a German city in 1945. Street with building rubble both sides.