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German youths die for espionage. The lifeless body of a 17-year-old German spy, Josef Schoner, hangs from the stake near Braunschweig, Germany, where he was executed by a Ninth U.S. Army firing squad. Schoner was convicted with 16-year-old Heinz Petry for spying on American forces and both were put to death June 1, 1945.

German atrocities in Holland. The ill-fated German concentration camp in Vught near Hertogenbosch has now been found by the Allied liberation forces. Undeniable evidence of the torturing and killing of Dutch patriots was found everywhere in this Hell where more than 13.000 people were killed. A poison-gas chamber. Sign reads: Warning - Poison gas.

German civiliand turn in weapons. A German police officer, working under the jurisdiction of the Third U.S. Army in Bas Godesberg, assists in the registration of weapons confiscated from civilians in the town. Bad Godesberg, one mile west of the Rhine River and three miles south of Bonn, fell to American forces March 9, 1945.

German youths die for espionage. Heinz Petry, 16-year-old German, lies face down as he fell after execution June 1, 1945, by a Ninth U.S. Army firing squad for spying on American forces. He claimed he was offered a chance to clear his own record at a Hitler Youth detention camp where he was being held by spying on the Americans. He was one of the German youths convicted and executed near Braunschweig, ...

Wrecked German fort in liberated Cherbourg. This German fort, shattered by U.S. aerial bombardment and artillery fire, was one of the last in Cherbourg to surrender to the overwhelming force of the American drive on the French deep-water port which, by July 1, 1944, had been cleared of all enemy resistance. U.S. forces swept aside all enemy installations along the Cotentin Peninsula and the Germans, ...

British airmen in German prison camp. Two officers of the Royal Air Force in conversation with a German officer at the prison camp where they have been interned.

German strategical points closer to England. The new strategic situation on the North Sea is best illustrated by this map giving the distances between some of the Scandinavian cities occupied by German forces and the English coast (black lines) in comparison to the distance to England from the German North Sea coast (white lines).

19th German Army surrenders at Innsbruck. Lieutenant General Erich Brandenberger, commanding general of the 19th German Army, signs the papers unconditionally surrendering his forces to the Allies. Looking on are staff members and Colonel Joseph L. Langevin (standing) of the Sixth U.S. Army Corps.

R.A.F. bomber attacks a German warship. A Bristol Blenheim bomber of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command sights an armed fleet auxiliary of the German Navy in the North Sea. The vessel begins avoiding action (note sudden alterations in the wake) as the Blenheim dives to the attack.

Fleeing Germans demolish bridge in Italy. This bridge over a draining canal in the Pontine Marshes on the west coast of Italy was destroyed by the Germans in their retreat before the Allied forces which entered Rome, the Italia capital, on June 4, 1944. In addition to destroying bridges, the enemy flooded the Pontine Marshes area in a futile effort to halt the Allied advance.

Germans captured in Coblenz. German prisoners taken by troops of the 87th Infantry Division. Third U.S. Army, are guarded by an American soldier in Coblenz, Reich city at the joining of the Rhine and Moselle Rivers which fell March 17, 1945. Soldiers of the 87th Division crossed the Moselle to storm the ciry from the south and join forces with other Third Army troops who entered from the north.