Germany: Congressional group, Weimar, Germany - ADC-4229

Summary

CONGRESSIONAL GROUP Weimar, Germany;24 April 1945 (LIB 5927) MSs, CUs, officers speaking to the Senators at Buchenwald concentration camp.MSs, Senators viewing stack of naked bodies.MS, Senator Alben W Barkley standing next to pile of bodies.MSs, Negro soldiers speaking with group of Senators.VS, Gen Omar N Bradley talking with the Senators.Seq: Senatorial group is met by Lt Gen Walter B Smith at the airfield.MS, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and group of Senators come out of building and enter car. CHECKING CIVILIANS AT DUISBURG Germany;23 April 1945 (LIB 5928) Seq: Soldiers of the 13th Rif Regt, 8th Div, checking identification papers ofcivilians, weeding out German soldiers who donned civilian clothes. RECORD COVERAGE RAILYARDS Nurembur g, Germany;24 April 1945 (LIB 5929)Card 2 of 2VSs, completely destroyed boxcars and locomotives, some of them standing on end.HLS, pan, thousands of freight cars in marshalling yard, most of them are destroyed.MSs, wrecked railroad station. ARMORED COLUMNS Dinkelsbuhl, Germany21 April 1945 (LIB 5930)VS, armored vehicles of the 12th Armored Div, XXI Corps, moving thru streets oftown. White flags are hanging from almost every house.CU, middle-aged German civilian smoking pipe, watching incoming vehicles.MS, CU, smiling German boy watching vehicles