Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. Allied drives split Germany [etc.]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. Allied drives split Germany [etc.]

1945

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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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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 (Spirit)

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German chancellor and Führer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Munich, to Frau Schwarz, 1940 Jul. 27. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 78912366 Hitler was leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (1920-1921) and chancellor and Führer of Germany (1933-1945). From the guide to the Adolf Hitler collection of calligraphic poems, 1923 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Found i...