German-Held French P.O.W.s Return To France

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keywords: wwii, european theater, germany, france, french p.o.w.s, prisoners of war, slave labor, homecoming

Synopsis: Allied troops advance through Germany freeing thousands of French P.O.W.s and French citizens forced into slave labor for Nazi Germany begin their journey home to France and loved ones...(read more)

Date: 1945
Duration: 00:01:57
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: France, Germany

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German-Held French P.O.W.s Return To France

German-Held French P.O.W.s Return To France

The locked gates of prison camps open up as Allied armor sweeps over Germany. In this corner of Germany, every mile of Allied advance brings freedom to thousands upon thousands of French servicemen after five years of nightmare. The humiliation has ended at last. Westward lies France and home and a waiting family. Westward also goes tens of thousand of French civilians who had been condemned to work as slaves in Germany. Some come home by ship. Two thousand of them, from German prison camps in Poland, arrive now at Marseille. Some come home by air. This is the moment they and the French people at home had been waiting for. Three million Frenchmen had been held in Germany. All bear the marks of suffering, of sickness of hunger. Thirty thousand arrive every day. Nearly three hundred thousand have already come back. They come back to their loved ones, to the warmth of home and to Liberty.