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American Troops In Germany 1945
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keywords: wwii, germany, u.s. military, sherman tank, german p.o.w.'s
Synopsis: Unedited footage of American troops moving through Germany March 24-April 8, 1945...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:18:20
- Sound: No
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Germany
American Troops In Germany 1945
A caravan of United States Army tanks, trucks, and Red Cross vehicles move along a dusty German road. Smoking rubble and desolate buildings line the road and landscape. Scene of U.S Sherman tank with a T34 (calliope) Rocket Launcher mounted on top comes around curve on a dusty road toward camera followed by other tanks. More U.S. tanks traveling through clouds of dust. CU of Sherman tank with T34 (calliope) Rocket Launcher mounted on top in WWII. Four German prisoners walk towards camera, followed by a group of liberated French prisoners cheering tankers and walking along the road, opposite direction as the US vehicles.
Dark shots of prisoner group walking. Two Americans attend to a wounded German soldier laying near the road. Captured German troops are marched to the rear guarded by U.S. soldiers. Group of German soldiers march in surrender on sidewalk, with hands over their heads. White flags hang from windows of buildings. A German woman gives some of the men something to drink. U.S. tanks move through German town.
Blurry, dark footage of a burning German town. Fires and smoke rise from farms along the landscape and continue to burn into the night. An American officer talks to some German officers as civilians walk around them. Shows burning wreckage of a crashed airplane.
02:32:48:02: Shows bodies of victims of a German concentration camp. A survivor talks to an American soldier. More gruesome scenes of concentration camp prisoners killed by the Nazi guards as U.S. troops advanced into Germany. Scenes of a pyre with burned bodies of concentration camp prisoners. Large pile of rubble from destroyed crematorium.
Shows wreckage of German planes. Shows a burning tank. U.S. soldiers load and fire a mobile artillery gun and a mortar on April 8, 1945.
