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German prisoners in Normandy searched by Canadian captors. Hands in air, German soldiers captured in the Normandy village of Gruchy are searched for hidden weapons by Canadian troops of the Allied forces during their advance to liberate the inland seaport of Caen in northern France. Since the first Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, 54,000 Germans had surrendered by July 11, ...

U.S. bombers blast German port. A U.S. Flying Fortress (foreground) drops a stick of bombs, as the largest number of planes ever sent out by the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force bomb U-boat yards, docks and factories at the German port of Bremen on Nov. 26, 1943. Plumes of vapor trail the Fortresses and Liberator heavy bombers, which together with escorting Thunderbolts and Lightnings fighter planes shot ...

German field Marshal captured in Austria. Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner (center), Commander of Germans forces in Czechoslovakia, is pictured May 25, 1945, und guard in a U.S. Army jeep after being turned over to the 42nd Ïnfantery ('Rainbow') Division, Seventh U.S. Army, by headquarters of the First German Army in Austria. Field Marshal Schorner sought refuge in the Tyrolean Alps after fleeing Czechoslovakia. ...

Grim reminder of German reprisals in Greece. The scar of a bullit that went through her shoulder mars the back of this Greek woman, who was nursing her nine-month old child when the Germans started their massacre of 1,000 persons in the Greek village of Distomo. The bullet crushed the infant's head before piercing the mother's shoulder. As revealed in a Greek report, the Germans started their bloody ...

German youths die for espionage. A Ninth U.S. Army firing sqaud marches into position to execute 16-year-old Heinz Petry of Alsdorf, Germany, member of the Hitler Youth organization convicted of espionage on American forces. He was one of two German youths executed June 1, 1945, for spying. The execution took place near Braunschweig, Germany.

German surrender in St. Nazaire. Major Adalbert Engelken, chief of staff for Major General Werner Junck, commander of the German garrison at St. Nazaire, signs (at right) unconditional surrender torms May 8, 1945, freeing the French Channel port and surrender 28,000 Germans to the 66th U.S. Infantry Division. Colonel John W. Keating (at left), Chief of Staff of the 66th Division, signs on behalf of ...

German youths die for espionage. A Ninth U.S. Army firing squad executes 16-year-old Heinz Petry of Alsdorf, Germany, convicted of espionage against American forces. He was one of two German youths found spying against U.S. troops and put to death near Braunschweig, Germany, June 1, 1945. They were members of the Hitler Youth organization.

Germans take possession of Memel. Hitler pays triumphal visit. The landing part of German sailors from the fleet which escorted Hitler marching through the crowd-lined streets of Memel. This was the first time that German naval forces had taken part in an occupation of ceded territoriy.

' The Processing Of German Troops. Hundreds of German troops who formed part of the occupational forces in Norway are now being processed and sent home. Before boarding the ship which takes them to Germany, they are subjected to a rigid examination. Many SS troops hoping to evade Allied justice have been found disguised as ordinary German soldiers. Photo shows: After the processing, German troops line ...

French patriots examine captures German mortar in Normandy. French patriots raise their flag over a six-barrelled German mortar which was abandoned by the retroating enemy at its position in the mouth of a cave near Floury-sur-Orne, liberated as British troops smashed through Caen. The cave was also used as an ammunition dump by the Germans. As British and Canadian troops continued their advance into ...

Verenigde Staten. German prisoners of Western Front. In the six months following the landings in Normandy on Jun 6, 1944, armies of the Allied Expeditionary Force took 749,000 German prisoners on the Western Front. This drawing illustrates the number of enemy soldiers who gave up to the French Forces of the Interior and to each of the seven armies that are hammering toward victory over the forces of ...