Summary: Arras' resistance movement celebrate the part it played in the town's liberation.
Description: German prisoners loaded into three-ton lorries belonging to 29th Armoured Brigade's RASC company are despatched to Arras from 11th Armoured Division's front north-west of the town. Germans taken prisoners by FFI units from Arras and the outlying districts are paraded along Tricolour-bedecked streets in captured German Ford and Opel lorries. A crowd gathers round a young man who slits a portrait of Hitler with a bayonet and then spits onto the picture. People rush across the Grande Place to watch an FFI procession, consisting of mainly women and children, parade around the square, carrying banners and singing the Marseillaise and 'God Save the King'.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war (object name)
transport, Canadian military - truck: CMP truck (object name)
Liberation (object name)
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
