American troops in the European theater of operations (1944)

Drill training in a US Army unit in the Bavarian Alps.

A platoon of infantrymen begins to move under the command of a sergeant, shouldering their weapons.

The platoon marches in front of the commandant's office.

View of the village of Berghof in the Bavarian Alps.

Meeting the commander of the 4th US Infantry Division at the commandant's office, located in a hotel building.

The general gets out of a jeep and enters the commandant's office building, accompanied by officers.

The general and his entourage exit the commandant's office.

The general and his entourage of officers walk along the road from the commandant's office, the general listens to the officers' explanations about the location of Hitler's former headquarters, the Berghof.

Mountain landscape, panorama of an American guard post, a sentry on duty.

An American officer descends a slope overgrown with trees, approaches a sentry standing at the entrance to one of the captured bunkers, goes through the door of the bunker, a soldier accompanies him.

Entrance to a concrete bunker, an officer listens to a soldier's explanation, goes inside the bunker, the soldier remains outside.

Darkness, the bunker door opens, the doorway in the dark, the officer's figure in the doorway.

Opening the bunker door, the doorway in the dark, the officer goes to the exit into the light.

View from the doorway of the bunker, an officer comes out through the opening.

An American sentry on duty at the entrance to the occupied German defensive bunker in the Berghof, an officer comes out of the bunker, goes up.

The officer goes up from the bunker to Hitler's dilapidated residence.

A sentry at one of the entrances to the bunker, the officer climbs out of the window opening, heads toward the sentry.

Views of the underground passage of Hitler's residence, an American officer walks along the underground passage, lighting the way with a flashlight.

The officer inspects the walls of the underground passage on the go, the loopholes for firing a machine gun along part of the corridor, the officer walks along the corridor, turns left, comes back.

Mountain landscape, panorama of one of the destroyed exits from Hitler's residence into the mountains, an American sentry at the exit, an officer descending the slope, walking along a path.

Corpses of Italian and German soldiers.

An American tank moves along the outskirts of an Italian settlement.

American infantry, supported by tanks, advances along the streets of an Italian city.

View of a street in Hanover (above).

American soldiers near a jeep surrounded by local residents (above).

An American soldier drinks wine from a bottle.

Local residents at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Hanover.

An American jeep with a radio antenna drives past one of the checkpoints on a street in Hanover.

Local residents inspect a wooden frame of a permanent firing point.

German soldiers surrendering and walking along a city street with their hands raised.

View of a street in Hanover.

A soldier climbs into a window opening on the first floor of a building.

An American military patrol on the outskirts of Hanover.

An American tanker near a turret machine gun.

An American tank on the outskirts of Hanover.

An American medic looks through binoculars.

American officers talking with representatives of the city utility service management, one of them hands the Americans a stack of documents.

A document from the stack is in German.

American soldiers read the text of the documents handed to them.

Faces of Germans.

American soldiers confer among themselves, talking about the documents handed to them.

Faces of American soldiers and German employees during a conversation.

Meeting of Soviet and American soldiers in Germany in May 1945. A Soviet cameraman is filming.

Presentation of an American award to a Soviet general.

Soviet and British officers stand on the steps at the entrance to the building before taking pictures, among them are Field Marshal Montgomery and Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Montgomery and Rokossovsky's faces, exchanging memorable gifts.

German prisoners of war on the street of one of the cities in Germany.

American soldiers search the Germans who surrendered, inspecting the personal belongings of the prisoners of war.

Registration number on an American military vehicle.

The driver adjusts the number on the car.

The sign in German is above the entrance to the building.

A soldier of the American military police salutes.

American generals exit the building and walk to the car.

General Eisenhower near the car among the officers.

Eisenhower's motorcade begins to move.

One of the American admirals disembarks from the ship ashore.

Cars at the entrance to General Eisenhower's residence (panorama).

A column of American cars drives past the fence of the camp for German prisoners of war, prisoners of war are behind the fence.

German prisoners of war in the American camp during washing.

American officers disembark from the ship in Bremen.

The arrival of General Eisenhower in Bremen.

A sentry at the gate of the camp for German prisoners of war in Bremen.

Life and everyday life of German prisoners of war on the camp grounds.

Panorama of the territory of the American prisoner of war camp (top).

Some of the German prisoners of war during formation.