Description: a) Clearance of French (Normandy) beach littered with German anti-invasion defences and destroyed seafront buildings. Nuns check supplies unloaded at Fondation Franco-Américaine Louis Pasteur and place mattresses on beds.
b) Port in Southern France, with houses damaged by shelling. Minister of Information Teitgen inspects FFI unit on mountain road. Marseille scenes include port, large crowds in La Canebière and Teitgen speaking in hall.
c) Large rally in Place de la République, Paris by various Resistance and political groups include representatives bearing various banners: SFIO, MLN, PCF (Thorez visble), PRP and FN.
d) Funeral procession by miners in large town in Northern France after mining disaster.
e) General de Lattre de Tassigny reviews French Army troops after liberation of town in Alsace Lorraine. Military advance continues towards Neuf-Brisach (Neubreisach) on River Rhine; long lines of German prisoners-of war.
f) General de Gaulle visits liberated Mulhouse and Strasbourg, together with Minister of Army Diéthelm and General Leclerc, and enters Cathedral for service.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 512
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-02
Production Country: France
Production Details: France Libre Actualites (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person)
