WWII - 1945, Germany: Last Days Of The War On Germany; France

WWII - 1945, Germany: Frankfurt Destruction; Royalty & Castle; USSR POW Liberation; German POWs Captured; Koblenz Flag Raising Title: Movietone News - Last Days Of The War On Germany. 16:16:07 Aerial over smoking Frankfurt in ruins. Burning buildings & wreckage. Allied tanks & troops in streets. 16:16:34 Gestapo agent manhandled by German crowd; taken away by soldiers. Civilians shoveling bags in coal yard looting; plundering goods / food / clothing from trains. 16:17:15 LS soldiers looking across pond / lake to huge castle. MCU Princess Valerie Maria Schleswig-Holstein & husband Prince duc d’ Arenberg in discussion w/ Americans, outraged they have taken over her castle. 16:17:40 Pan mass graves of Russian prisoners buried by Nazis in lime pits. 16:17:54 Russian POWs liberated, run out of camp. Russians bounce GIs in gratitude. 16:18:10 French POWs arrive home, on train platform greeting families w/ tears & hugs. 16:18:21 Huge crowd of German POWs. German prisoner & teenage Prisoner of War searched. Long line of POWs moving across fields. 16:18:45 Victory ceremony in Koblenz w/ Patton & Bradley; shake hands w/ troops; hoisting large US flag bending flag pole. WW2; Destruction; War Aftermath; Royalty; 1940s;