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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221499-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: England,Italy,United Kingdom,USA
Location: Bolzano,Isonzo River,Laives,MILAN
TC Begins: 15:10:07
TC Ends: 15:21:51
Duration: 00:11:44
WWII - Italy: Gen. Crittenberger’s Review of Milan, Italy Police; Removal of Nazi Ambassador to Italy; Laives, Italy German POWs; 91st Div. Crosses Isonzo River; Evacuation of German POWs to rear, Bolzano, Italy 23May45 LS city street lined w/ military & civilians. Italian police VIP presents papers to Gen. Crittenberger as others watch including British & Italian (?) military. Crittenberg & others review police at attention. MCU police. Civilians watch. Saluting. Motorcycle police ride past, others march past saluting & w/ swords & rifles. Mixed nations soldiers watching. 15:12:21 Slate: 15May45 Soldiers beside US Army truck outside large medieval stone house. Civilian Nazi Ambassador, Hans Georg von Mackensen (?) talking to US officer. Army photographers taking pictures as women into truck & man into jeep. Convoy of jeeps, US Army car & small trucks out & past. 15:13:30 21May45 (?) Laives, Italy (?) Germans w/ field packs walking past thru small village, Americans watch. German camouflaged buses & military cars, motorcycles past in convoy. First aid signs & road signs. Road sign: Meldekopf, Gloger, others. 15:14:40 Slate, n.d. Sgt. Kreider. 19May45 (?) 91st Div. Crosses Isonzo River. LS of large replacement bridge w/ town beyond, traffic across toward camera. GIs w/ pick & shovels digging as others watch w/ machine guns set up. Four men on bicycles past; very young soldier in uniform w/ machine gun watching. US Army trucks & jeeps waved past in convoy column as other traffic waits. GOOD BRIDGE CROSSING. 15:17:37 Slate: 21May45 Evacuation of German POWs from Bolzano. GI standing in front of ?? w/ Deutsche Volksgruppe Kreisleitung - Bozen Volkswohlfahrt lettered in entrance. LS German soldiers w/ packs out of building & into truck. MCUs. Large crates loaded. GI patrolling on sidewalk. German officer walks past. GI watching truck leave. 15:19:42 Slate: same, camera Thomas. Trucks leaving, soldiers wave to women from truck, shake their hands on sidewalk. Women waving. Convoy column of trucks, bus & other vehicles past; leaving town. 15:20:58 Trucks leaving town past sign: Bozen. WW2 Surrenders; WW2 Aftermath; Ending; Repatriation; 1940s;