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Nazis watch U.S. advance. Captive German officers watch from the side of the autobahn as vehicles of the Sixth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, approach Giessen, Reich city 30 miles north of Frankfurt, which was entered March 28, 1945. By April 3, 1945, racing armored columns of the Third Army drove through the Fulda Gap, parallel with the Frankfurt-Dresden autobahn, to reach a point 155 miles southwest ...

French nuns negotiate surrenders of Nazis. A German prisoner trundles his wounded comrade away to a first aid post while American guards stand watch over more wounded seated on the ground outside a convent at avranches. French nuns negotiated the surrender of these German troops, who were hiding in the convent.

Nazis prisoners through streets of Moscow. Twenty abreast, Nazi prisoners captured on the fronts in White Russia march through the streets of Moscow to entrain for prisoner-of-war camps. The Red Army has captured Minsk, Pinsk and Dwinsk and is now sweeping into Poland.

Dutch church destroyed by retreating Nazis. Bricks and rubble is piled on the floor of a church in Panningen, Holland, which was partially destroyed by Nazis retreating before the Ninth U.S. Army troops who liberated the town March 14, 1945. After blowing up the front of the church, the Germans booby-trapped and mined the altar (background).

French farmers retrieve grain taken by Nazis. French farmers scoop up grain from rail cars after an Allied bomb halted the train, which was en route to Germany with grain grown in French fields. Allied planes flying behind enemy lines are continually hammering Nazi supply lines and military installations in support of Allied ground forces advancing in Normandy.

Slaves of Nazis freed by U.S. advance. Russian women, former slave workers of the Nazis who were freed by the Ninth U.S. Army in Germany, make Russian biscuits. They are cooking in the community kitchen of an Allied repatriation camp.

Keeping things hot for the Nazis. The gunnery expert at an East Coast port checking up on the recoil of a 12-pounder gun. Tackle is fixed to the mast and the crew pull on the ropes. When the gun is drawn back to the extent of its recoil all the parts are examined, cleaned and oiled.

Retreating Nazis turned Dutch church into Rubble. Rubble is piled high in front of a gutted church in Maasbree, Holland, after retreating Nazis blasted the structure. The Dutch town was liberated by troops of the Ninth U.S. Army operating on the northern flank of the Allied Western Front.

French nuns negotiate surrender of Nazis. A French nun negotiates the surrender of German troops, hiding in a convent, with members of a U.S. armored unit driving on Avranches. The German troops came out hands over their heads a few minutes later.

Nazis accused os mass murder at lorient. The former Nazi commander (fifth from right, foreground) of the Citadelle of Port Louis, Lorient, France, accompanied by French Army inverstigation officers and a member of the International Red Cross, points out a mass grave where French civilians murdered by Nazis were buried during the occupation. A group of 60 German prisoners under the direction of Major ...

French nuns negotiate surrender of Nazis. A French nun gives her hand to an American armored officer, a member of the force driving on Avranches, after negotiating the surrender of German troops hiding in a convent. The German troops came out, hands over their heads, a few minutes later.

Nazis captured by third U.S. Army. Five hundred German prisoners are grouped in a field where they were rounded up by troops of the Third U.S. Army. The Nazis were captured on the east bank of the Rhine where in a single day, March 29, 1945, the Third U.S. Army rounded up a record number of 22,400 prisoners.