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Husband who saved her life. Mrs. Sansom was saved from the German gas chamber by claiming to be the wife of Captain Peter Churchill, her commanding officer. The Gestapo, believing him to be related to Winston Churchill, were unwilling to kill his wife whom they regarded as a valuable hostage. Soon they are really to be married in England.

Nazi death chamber in Paris. French policemen and members of the French Forces of the Interior examine the bulletschipped post where French hostages were executed by the Germans. The blindfolds which covered the eyes of the victims are draped over the posts. New posts for use when a set become too splintered for further use are propped up against the wall of the execution hall. The torture chambers ...

Famous Frenchmen found in Castle prison. Overcoming opposition fron the German guards at Itter Castle in the Tyrolean Alps, men of the 103 rd Infantry Division of the Seventh U.S. Army, found a number of famous French statesmen and generals who had been hold hostages by the Germans for more than two years. Among them were former Prime Ministers Paul Reynaud and Edouard Daladier, General Maxim Weygand, ...

Famous Frenchmen found in Castle prison. Overcoming opposition from the German guards at Itter Castle in the Tyrolean Alps, men of the 103 rd Infantry Division of the Seventh U.S. Army, found a number of famous French statesmen and generals who had been hold hostages by the Germans for more than two years. Among them were former Prime Ministers Paul Reynaud and Edouard Daladier, General Maxim Weygand, ...

Shrine to Italians slain by Nazis. Two Italian police kneel in the Ardeatine caves on the outskirts of Rome, where the Germans massacred 320 hostages in retaliation for the killing of 26 Nazis by the explosion of a bomb in the Italian capital, March 23, 1944. The Germans drove the civilians to the caves, marched them inside and mowed them down with machine guns. To block the noise in the machine guns, ...