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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221499-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: Austria,Germany,USA
Location: Linz,Werden
TC Begins: 15:21:59
TC Ends: 15:29:41
Duration: 00:07:42
WWII - 1945, Germany & Austria: 16May45 Presentation of Medals, Werden, Germany; n.d. Released German POWs, Linz, Austria LIB 6721 Slate: 16May45 1st US Army. Field w/ US military soldiers saluting; flags in wind; other groups behind. 2 Star General presenting medals to medics. 15:23:08 LIB 6722 Linz, Austria MP inspecting POW pack; given paper for it (?). Walking away down street. US, Russian & officers questioning German soldiers. Large group outside city building. Talking. German soldiers giving paper records to other German POWs at table. Desk w/ allied officers looking at POW papers. Lines of Germans. Young & old. Fingerprinting. Woman in hairnet typing processing papers “Travel Warrant”. 15:27:16 Germans dropping pants & inspected naked. POWs sitting playing cards at table. Fill out papers; wash in stream. Tar paper shacks & tents. Signs: Villa Anni; Gasthans Hunger m. Durst. 15:28:25 German POWs walking, sitting. Nurse. Others leaving w/ papers. Woman giving out soup, child watching. Men taking potatoes. 15:29:01 Large courtyard w/ lines of POWs; shot on ground of men waiting; sitting by loudspeaker. Others standing. Russian guards. WW2 German Surrenders; Ending; Aftermath; Prisoners of War; 1940s;