Battle Rages Along Nazi Westwall

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keywords: wwii, european theater, operation market garden, general patton 3rd army, german internment camp

Synopsis: A massive air assault across the English Channel in Operation Market Garden, Allies drive through France into Germany, civilians liberated from German internment camps...(read more)

Date: 1944
Duration: 00:02:51
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: France

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Battle Rages Along Nazi Westwall

Battle Rages Along Nazi Westwall

An air train Army, over 285 miles in length, and containing over 2,000 planes and gliders, crosses the English Channel in Operation Market Garden. British and American tanks roll through Eindhoven to the cheers of the Dutch people.

Patton's Third Army captures part of the Maginot Line. Shows the captured larger artillery guns replaced by the Germans on the Maginot Line firing and shelling Germany over the Moselle River. Shows U.S. troops fighting in the streets of Eupen, Germany. The people of Roetgen, Germany, near the Eupen forest, are cool to the entry of the Allied Forces. Occasional families show forced smiles, but the children are trusting of the invaders. Shows captured German POWs laying on ground.

In Vittel, France 2100 American and British civilians were interned as prisoners in Frontstalag 121, a German internment camp or detention center (Internierungslager-abbreviated as Ilag) for foreign civilians trapped when the German army occupied the area. CU of group of British and American civilians interned as prisoners. Shows the Little Sisters of The Poor in Vittel France that cared for the aged and sick among the American and British civilian prisoners at the internment camp. Aaron Rappaport from New York, with his three daughters, and William Erwin of Philadelphia are among the interned civilians happy to be liberated. Shows large group of civilian prisoners with American flag at German Ilag camp at Vittel, France.