Damage In Cherbourg; German POWs; Street Scenes, 06/27/1944 (full)

Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. Naval Photographic Center film #4447. National Archives description "1) MCU Lt. Col. M.C. Teague, first man to enter Cherbourg & staff.2) MS-Pan General views harbor & dock area, sea wall, etc.-SV.3) MS Knocked-out shore batteries.4) GV Street scenes showing damage-SV.5) MS German prisoners under guard.6) MS U.S. soldiers march down street-SV.7) MS U.S. soldiers capture German prisoner.8) GV Bodies, wrocked automobiles, etc. in street-SV." National Archives Identifier: 77124

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7:19--Organisation TODT. "Hans, are we the baddies?"

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At 07:20 Einsatzgruppe West Office. Bold motherfuckers. Organisation Todt (OT) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior Nazi. The organization was responsible for a huge range of engineering projects both in Nazi Germany and in occupied territories from France to the Soviet Union during World War II. It became notorious for using forced labour. From 1943-45 during the late phase of the Third Reich, OT administered all constructions of concentration camps to supply forced labor to industry.

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Notice how officers are wearing their rank. They are not front line. Those that wore their rank were quickly knocked off by kraut snipers.

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I see many well fed Americans...