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Various POW stories, Germany & Austria 30Apr45 to 03May45; Elb meeting party, 02May45

Reel Number: 221343-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany

Location:

TC Begins: 19:52:24

TC Ends: 20:03:31

Duration: 00:11:07

Various POW stories, Germany & Austria 30Apr45 to 03May45; Elb meeting party, 02May45 LIB 6250 Presentation, Freyung, Germany, 03May45 US troops on field for ceremony. French (?) officers pin medal on US officer. Salutes & leaving. 19:53:17 LIB 6251 Meeting on Elbe party, 02May45 Russian General & US General laughing, posing w/ others. Many medals. US & Russian soldiers wave & pose for camera. Much handshaking. US Generals past camera. Posing & shaking hands. US 2-star General. Army truck pulls car out of mud. More posing, handshaking. 19:58:56 LIB 6265 Hungarian soldiers: POWs, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 01May45} Woman soldier sitting on stone wall folding kerchief, tilt up to massive number of POWs eating & resting w/ village buildings behind. Eating from cans of food. 20:00:06 LIB 6266 Companies A & B in Auland (?), Austria ca 01May45 Pan around farm yard w/ prisoners. Body or man sleeping by roadside. Guards, burning buildings beyond. POWs sitting by roadside under guard. Snow on hillside of town w/ POWs & burning building. 20:01:14 LIB 6267 Prisoners, Kaltenbrunn, Germany ca 01May45 Large number w/ field packs walking along snow-lined road, passed by US Army trucks in other direction. 20:02:24 LIB 6268 Political Prisoners, Plan SEE (?), Germany 30Apr45 Civilians watching French, US & Italian (?) flag raised on pole. Older men inside barbed wire of POW camp, talk w/ US soldiers. Frenchmen ? wearing berets. End of European WWII; Prisoners of War;

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