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U.S. troops liberate Nazi-held prisoners. The soldiers assembled in this huge Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in the ninth U.S. Army sector in Germany April 4, 1945, are part of an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 Russian, Polish and Ukranian prisoners liberated by advancing Ninth Army troops. The group is lined up for onspection by Captein Leon L. Smcavic of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, commanding ...

Hitler's physician to hang: sentences on Nazi doctors. Flanked by U.S. guards, Karl Brandt, ex-personal physician to Adolf Hitler and former Reich Commisioner for health and sanitation, stands in the Court of Nürnberg, August 20 as he was sentenced to death by hanging.

Nazi officer murders three u.s. prisoners. Russian women and a child, liberated from slave labor in Germany by troops of the 13th armored division, are pictured april, 18, 1945 as they laid flowers at the feet of the four dead American soldiers, three of whom were murdered by a german officer near Hilden, Germany. A freed Russian slave worker was a eye witness to the crime. He reported that the men, ...

Nazi officer murders three U.S. prisoners. A former Russian slave laborer, liberated from the Nazis by troops on the 13th Armored Division, First U.S. Army, points to a ditch near Hilden, Germany, where a German officer shot three American tank soldiers through the head in cold blood. He was an eye-witness to be crime. Shown in the foreground April 18, 1945, are Lieutenant John Mewha (left); Major ...

Young Nazi soldier captured by U.S. troops. This Nazi soldier, only sixteen years old, was captured by troops of the Niinth U.S. Army in Krefeld, Germany. He was lying in a shellhole pretending to be dead, when taken prisoner in the town, which was an important industrial city and communications center commanding a motor highway bridge over the Rhine River. Krefeld was captured March 2, 1945.

Nazi prisoners taken by third U.S. Army. German prisoners of war are grouped together in the corner of a field where they are guarded by soldiers of the Third U.S. Army March 20, 1945. By March 21, the Third Army had turned 75,538 Nazi soldiers into prison-of-war cages as the result of a 28-day advance to clear the Nazis from territory south of the Moselle River and west of the Rhine.

U.S. Sergeant broadcasts Nazi defeat. Master Sergeant Max Oppenheimer, U.S. Army, of Los Angeles, California, broadcasts the news of General Karl Wilhelm von Schlieben's surrender and the fall of Cherbourg June 27, 1944, from a field station on the Cherbourg Peninsula. Broadcasting in German and French, the sergeant gave the first news of Nazi defeat.

U.S. engineers read Nazi sign. Engineers of the First U.S. Army read the sign Victory or Chaos, left behind by the Germans in Vettweiss. Eighteen miles southwest of Cologne, Vettweiss was taken as First U.S. Army troops drove toward the great industrial Rhine city, captured March 6, 1945.

' Nazi Prison Opened By U.S. Troops. Freed prisoners line the railings of their prison at Luttringhausen, Germany, after they were liberated April 15, 1945, by U.S. troops. J.F. Osten, Vice-Admiral of the Dutch Navy, stands near his country's flag as the freed inmates, most of whom are apparently Dutch, celebrate the birthday of Princess Juliana. A handmade American Flag also hangs on the railing.The ...

U.S. troops free Russian from Nazi forced labor. Russian workers liberated from Nazi forced labor in Mulheim, Germany, by first U.S. Army troops, prepare to leave the captured town in a truck March 11, 1945, on the first lap of their homeward journey. They will be returned to Russia under the Allied displaced persons plan.