WWII - 1944, USA Homefront: Americans Home From Inside Germany ca Mar44
Intertitle: Americans Home From Inside Germany
11:18:11 12Mar44 SS Gripsholm w/ diplomatic markings painted on side arrives in NYC w/ repatriated citizens of US & Latin America; walk past flashbulbs. CU Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of General). United Press correspondent Ralph Heinzen talks re German morale and Hitler (SOF) “At the present time you can’t say much about his political prestige because as far as anyone knows there is no organized movement against Hitler or against Nazism in Germany. There is however a very serious growing defeatism.”
11:18:48 Nurses standing behind exchanged POWs in wheelchairs from Gripsholm; decorated w/ Purple Heart at Halloran hospital on Staten Island.
WW2; Repatriation; 1940s; Homecoming;
NOTE: Returnees had been held by Nazis and exchanged.
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WWII - 1944, USA Homefront: Americans Home From Inside Germany ca Mar44 Intertitle: Americans Home From Inside Germany 11:18:11 12Mar44 SS Gripsholm w/ diplomatic markings painted on side arrives in NYC w/ repatriated citizens of US & Latin America; walk past flashbulbs. CU Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of General). United Press correspondent Ralph Heinzen talks re German morale and Hitler (SOF) “At the present time you can’t say much about his political prestige because as far as anyone knows there is no organized movement against Hitler or against Nazism in Germany. There is however a very serious growing defeatism.” 11:18:48 Nurses standing behind exchanged POWs in wheelchairs from Gripsholm; decorated w/ Purple Heart at Halloran hospital on Staten Island. WW2; Repatriation; 1940s; Homecoming; NOTE: Returnees had been held by Nazis and exchanged.