Liberated POWs; atrocities; Berchtesgaden; troops
Creator(s)
- United News Company (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
Part 1: elements of the 5th and 8th Armies occupy Bologna, Italy. Gen. Mark Clark receives the German surrender. Part 2: French prisoners in Germany are liberated and return home. Part 3: Congressmen visit German prison camps and view evidences of atrocities. Part 4: Berchtesgaden is bombed. Joseph Goebbel's brother is shot as a spy. German prisoners. Russian and US troops meet at the Elbe. Shows Gen. Reinhardt.
Subjects
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- LIBERATION
- BERCHTESGADEN
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- GOEBBELS, JOSEPH
- PRISONERS (FRENCH)
- ATROCITIES
- SURRENDER (GERMAN)
- PRISONERS (GERMAN)
- BOMBINGS
- CONGRESS (U.S.)
- ITALY
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
- CORPSES
- GERMANY
- ELBE RIVER
Places
- Elbe River, Germany
- , Italy
- Berchtesgaden, Germany
Genre
- Newsreels.
- Film