Американские войска на Европейском театре военных действий (1944)

Combat training in one of the units of the US Army in the Bavarian Alps.

A platoon of infantrymen begins to move under the command of a sergeant, taking a weapon on his shoulder.

The platoon marches in front of the commandant's office.

View of the village of Berghof in the Bavarian Alps.

Meeting of the commander of the 4th Infantry Division of the US Army at the commandant's office located in the hotel building.

The general gets out of the jeep, goes into the building of the commandant's office, accompanied by officers.

The general and his entourage leave the commandant's office.

The general and his accompanying officers walk along the road from the commandant's office, the general listens to the explanations of the officers about the location of Hitler's former headquarters "Berghof".

Mountain landscape, panorama of the American guard post, sentry on duty.

An American officer walks down a slope overgrown with trees, approaches a sentry standing at the entrance to one of the captured bunkers, passes through the door of the bunker, a soldier accompanies him.

The entrance to the concrete bunker, the officer listens to the soldier's explanations, goes inside the bunker, the soldier remains outside.

Darkness, the bunker door opens, a doorway in the dark, the figure of an officer in the doorway.

Opening the door of the bunker, the doorway in the dark, the officer goes to the exit to the light.

The view from the doorway of the bunker, an officer comes out through the opening.

An American sentry on duty enters the occupied German defensive bunker in the Berghof, an officer leaves the bunker, goes upstairs.

The officer goes up from the bunker to the dilapidated residence of Hitler.

A sentry at one of the entrances to the bunker, an officer climbs out of the window opening, goes to the sentry.

Views of the underground passage of Hitler's residence, an American officer passes through the underground passage, lighting the way with a flashlight.

On the move, the officer inspects the walls of the underground passage, loopholes for firing a machine gun along part of the corridor, the officer walks along the corridor, turns left, returns.

A mountain landscape, a panorama of one of the destroyed exits from Hitler's residence to the mountains, an American sentry on duty at the exit, an officer goes down the slope, walks along the path.

The corpses of Italian and German soldiers.

An American tank is moving along the outskirts of one of the Italian settlements.

American infantry, supported by tanks, are advancing through the streets of an Italian city.

View of one of the streets of Hanover (from above).

American soldiers at the jeep surrounded by local residents (above).

An American soldier drinks wine from a bottle.

Local residents at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Hanover.

An American jeep with a radio antenna drives past one of the checkpoints on Hanover Street.

Local residents inspect the wooden frame of a long-term firing point.

German soldiers surrendering are walking down a city street with their hands up.

View of one of the streets of Hanover.

A soldier climbs into a window opening on the ground floor of the building.

An American military patrol on the outskirts of Hanover.

An American tanker at a turret machine gun.

An American tank on the outskirts of Hanover.

The American medical instructor looks through binoculars.

American officers are talking with representatives of the management of municipal utilities, one of them hands the Americans a bundle of documents.

The document from the handed bundle is in German.

The American military reads the text of the documents handed to them.

The faces of the Germans.

The American military confer with each other, talk about the documents handed to them.

The faces of the American military and German employees during the conversation.

The meeting of the Soviet and American military in Germany in May 1945.

A Soviet cameraman is filming.

Presentation of the American award to the Soviet general.

Soviet and British officers stand on the steps at the entrance to the building before taking pictures, among them Field Marshal Montgomery and Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky.

The faces of Montgomery and Rokossovsky, the exchange of memorable gifts.

German prisoners of war on the street of one of the German cities.

The American military searches the Germans who surrendered, searches the personal belongings of prisoners of war.

The registration number on an American military vehicle.

The driver corrects the license plate on the car.

An inscription in German above the entrance to the building.

A soldier of the American military police salutes.

The American generals leave the building and go to the car.

General Eisenhower at the car among the officers.

Eisenhower's motorcade begins to move.

One of the American admirals goes ashore from the ship.

Cars at the entrance to the residence of General Eisenhower (panorama).

A convoy of American cars drives past the fence of the camp for German prisoners of war, prisoners of war outside the fence.

German prisoners of war in an American camp while washing.

American officers disembark from a ship in Bremen.

The arrival of General Eisenhower in Bremen.

A sentry at the gate of the camp for German prisoners of war in Bremen.

The life and everyday life of German prisoners of war in the camp.

Panorama of the territory of the American prison camp (top).

Part of the German prisoners of war during the construction.