American troops in Germany (1945.04)

Faces of former prisoners of the Tekla prisoner of war camp in the American occupation zone of Germany.

Corpses of prisoners in a pit.

Inspection of a tunnel dug by prisoners, demonstrating it to American servicemen on April 20, 1945. One of the former prisoners shows an American officer a way to cross barbed wire on boards thrown over it.

Prisoners released from the camp giving an interview.

View of a burnt barracks with charred corpses lying on the ground.

Charred corpses of prisoners on barbed wire and along the security perimeter.

Inspection of the place of extermination of prisoners by an American officer, the officer listens to the explanations of former prisoners.

Charred corpses of prisoners behind barbed wire on the territory of the camp.

American military signalmen near a jeep.

Discussion of the route on the map, faces of soldiers and sergeants.

American troops on the street of one of the cities in Germany.

Soldiers pass on both sides of the street.

A sign for the direction of Leipzig, soldiers walk past.

A unit of American infantry moves on both sides of the road.

American infantry leaves the city along the road leading to Leipzig.

A sign for the direction of Leipzig.

American infantrymen enter the outskirts of Leipzig, a road sign with the name of the city.

A view of a dug-up street on the outskirts of Leipzig, soldiers walk along the street.

Soldiers walk past a half-destroyed building and piles of construction debris, a panorama of a part of the street.

A column of American tanks with infantry on their armor moves through Germany on April 7, 1945. Trucks with infantry in the back drive by.

German children, standing on the side of the road, look at the passing American military trucks.

City residents show the way to the driver of a jeep.

American soldiers in a jeep, surrounded by local residents.

Two jeeps with trailers drive along the streets of the city past half-destroyed buildings and people standing at an intersection.

Tanks drive along a city street past a destroyed store building.

A view of a city street from a tank turret.

City residents talk to American tank crews, a girl with a bicycle stands near a tank.

City residents on the sidewalks, tanks drive along the street.

People wave at passing American soldiers.

An American motorcade drives along the street.

Remains of a wall of a destroyed building, American trucks drive past.