Allied drives split Germany [etc.]

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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39167, LI 208-UN-1050 - Allied drives split Germany [etc.] - DVD Copied by Justin Grimes. Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1 shows fighting in Leipzig, Nuremburg, and Braunschweig. Includes shots of German prisoners and civilians. Shows Adolf Hitler speaking at Nuremburg in 1932. Soldiers of the 3rd Army recover the German gold reserve and hidden art treasures. Part 2, Gen. Patton inspects troops. Shows the raising of the first official American flag to fly over Germany. Part 3 shows bodies of persons killed in German concentration camps and devices used for killing and torture. Camp officials are arrested. Shows the bodies of the mayor of Leipzig and his family who took poison to avoid arrest.

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National Archives and Records Administration

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