Documenting the Path of American Liberators (part 1)

Witness to History -- Documenting the Path of American Liberators

As Allied and Soviet troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they encountered concentration camps, mass graves, and numerous other sites of Nazi crimes.

Through documentation of the U.S. Army 167th Signal Photographic Company, this project honors the U.S. Army Divisions in World War II that liberated concentration camps.

Part 1: Invading Fortress Europe
-- D-Day (June 1944)
-- 167th Arrives in France (September 1944)
-- Huertgen Forest (October - December 1944)
-- Liberated Paris (November 1944)
-- Battle of the Bulge (December 1944 - January 1945)

For more information about the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/liberation/

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[sandyw239]

when was this thing made?

[ushmm]

@sandyw239 This video was made in 2005.

[roadrunner304]

There was many countries that was apart of this operation of kick ass on germany not only the USA.

[stuka52]

@roadrunner304 The name of the documentary is the "Path of American Liberators". No one said other countries were not involved.

[TheAdjundantReflex]

@holzklopper2 \

THE TRUTH HURTS, BRO

[holzklopper2]

@TheAdjundantReflex BULLSHIT

[wetpixels]

@roadrunner304 and? This video isn't taking away from any of the allies that supported the US, only documenting the path of American Liberators. We'll forever be indebted to those who stood by our sides.

[TheAdjundantReflex]

@lukebccb

War scholar? The simple fact was that most internment/concentration camps were on the western front.

[lukebccb]

@TheAdjundantReflex: what's a "little bit" on the "Eastern Front".  What do YOU - obviously a war scholar - know about the "Eastern Front"?

[TheAdjundantReflex]

@roadrunner304

True, but the Canadians and the Americans did most of the liberating on the Western front, and then the Russians did a little bit on the Eastern Front. Americans did the MOST.

[STOPTHEEU]

@tubbymarshall thank you very much. I have become to believe that arrogance is a sign of weakness. I often wonder what the Axis nations today think of us allies when they see the childish bickering. Is this really how we want to represent ourselves?

I doubt it.