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German Village Burning & GIs advancing ca March, 1945

Reel Number: 221297-12

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany

Location:

TC Begins: 06:20:26

TC Ends: 06:29:06

Duration: 00:08:40

German Village Burning & GIs advancing ca March, 1945 German (?) POWs past camera w/ bedrolls & cook kits, field packs. Roadside & dead bodies, US GI looking. Soldiers beaten to death. Tanks thru town; woman helping pump fire engine. Soldiers past on heavily loaded jeep, woman runs after. Man w/ firehose on building. GIs walking along road past camera, tip hat to cameraman. GIs on tanks past down gravel road; trees w/o leaves. 06:23:10 Gis on road w/ large forest fire on hillside above. Tanks in field; GIs pinned down along roadside. 06:23:38 Burning farm buildings & house. Women & girls run pas. Firewagen set up and women & old men pumping. GIs & tanks; truck w/ large rubber raft. Destroyed covered bridge over swift flowing river. Rubber raft unloaded from truck; machine guns & tanks firing onto hillside. 06:25:53 LIB 5462 Jeeps up town street, Red Cross flag flying, surrender flags hanging out of some windows. Truck loaded w/ casings & gas cans past; othr trucks & trailers slowly past. Sign: Probstzelle. Various vehicles past pulling trailers. Up mountainside narrow gravel road. CU sign: Nach Kleinneundorf & vehicles past. Jeep w/ shot out window. Good shots of GIs riding on vehicles. WWII Fighting; WW2;

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