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Military Newsreels: 1945 - Issue 24
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keywords: wwii, european theater, germany, hidden nazi gold cache, allied troops meet russian troops
Synopsis: Allies Offensive Drives Split Germany, General George S. Patton Inspects Troops On Army Day In Coblenz, British Officials Investigate German Atrocities...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:09:53
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Germany
Allies Offensive Drives Split Germany
Allied drives split German. Shows Allied infantry and tanks firing, scenes of heavy street fighting in Leipzig, Germany. Radio station and radio transmitting tower in Leipzig is taken undamaged. To the south Nuremburg lays in ruins and is in Allied hands. Flashback to 1932.
Brief image of Hitler giving Nazi salute. Scenes of the Nazi Rally grounds in Nuremberg (Nuremberg Stadium). Nazi Swastika emblem on Nuremburg Stadium. Shows liberation of British Officers from Stalag Oflag 17 POW camp in Braunschweig (English name Brunswick) Germany. Shows hundreds of German soldiers surrendering and in German POW camp.
In the drive through the heart of Germany 12-German generals were captured.
In a salt mine in central Germany soldiers of the 3rd Army recover the German gold reserve and hidden art treasures. Shows gold bars and foreign currency. Several paintings (art treasures) stolen from art museums by the Nazis are found.
The German town of Stendhal surrenders to the Allied forces. Civilians are registered and the town put into working order. Crowds of Germans gather in the marketplace to hear Allied orders and read Allied Proclamation disbanding the Nazi Party, Nazi Laws and Institution. Uniforms and all weapons are turned in to Allied Forces. Shown attack on the German city of Magdeburg on the Elbe River. The city of Magdeburg Germany is bombed and blasted when the Nazis Garrison Commander rejected an offer to surrender. Allied Forces after linking up with the Russian Armies at Torgau continue their drive into Germany.
General George S. Patton Inspects Troops On Army Day In Coblenz
Army Day in Koblenz (Coblenz) Germany. At the Castle Ehrenbreitstein or Ehrenbreitstein Fortress near Koblenz Germany General Patton inspects troops. The Castle Ehrenbreitstein is also the scene of the raising of the first official American flag to fly over Germany after the defeat of Germany in WWII.
British Officials Investigate German Atrocities
British M.P.’s investigate German atrocities at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany. Scene of the whipping block at Nazi concentration camp. Scenes of the bodies of persons killed in German concentration camps and devices used for killing and torture. Scenes of cremation ovens.
Belsen Concentration Camp for political prisoners. Graphic scenes of bodies of prisoners.
CU of Joseph Kramer, German Commander of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Joseph Kramer, “the Beast of Belsen”. Shows the German women guards at Belsen Concentration Camp.
At the Leipzig Concentration Camp. Shows bodies of prisoners that were machined-gunned to death or electrocuted on wire fences trying to escape a burning building that was set on fire by the Nazis as Allied Troops approached. Scenes of the bodies of the Mayor of Leipzig and his family who took poison to avoid arrest.
