Sgt. Raymond S. Buch was a member of the 56th Armored Engineer Battalion of the 11th Armored Division of the US Army and was present at the liberation of Mauthausen. His engineering battalion was brought to Mauthausen to bury the dead. Refer to the oral history interview with Mr. Buch recorded in December 1989 (RG-50.030*0045).
Timecodes starting with 02: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 01: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy.
The 11th US Armored Division's advances through England, France, and Germany. Includes scenes of burning villages, surrendering enemies, tanks in fields. Black and white: US Army headquarters in England, pan of buildings. Skyline, factory, US soldiers on boat. Woman bicycling on path. LS, from train, Southhampton waterfront, warehouses, Cherbourg harbor, countryside. 01:03:45 Handing cigarettes and candy to women on train. City, shops, traffic in Paris, dark. 01:04:56 Color: In Bestogne, civilians on dirt road, snow, military vehicles in field, postwar destruction, dead animals, makeshift grave. 01:06:38 Prisoners marching on small road. Pan, fields, tanks, town, landscape. 01:08:50 Black and white: Ruins, piles of rubble. 01:11:26 US soldiers in town, tanks, ruins, traveling on road, smoke columns rising in BG. 01:14:09 German soldiers marching in columns along road with US tanks at right, smoke columns. 01:15:29 German civilians surrender in Weiden, Germany, with white flag. Prisoners (Russian?) walking on road. 01:16:23 German soldiers begin walking on road. More scenes taken from roadside, abandoned train.
11th US Armored Division Advances