us-005578-irn1004368
type: RecordSet
date: 1945 January 04, December 1944
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
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has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 851
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1004368
scope and content: Capture of American POWs at the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944. The soldiers exit a house with their hands raised. Destroyed tanks, one of which bears the motto"America First" Sepp Dietrich at the front. A field littered with war materiel, including destroyed Sherman tanks. American POWs, some of them wounded, struggle through the mud. Germans shoot at American bombers. Children wave at a passing German tank in a"German village" General Walther Model directs his troops in various activities. A column of American POWs trudges past the camera. The camera lingers on the faces of African American prisoners, then juxtaposes them with the faces of German soldiers. German tanks roll by a barbed wire enclosure containing American POWs. German soldiers drink from bottles of wine and smoke cigarettes. Tanks roll through the narrow streets of a town.
title: American POWs captured at the Battle of the Bulge