Als der Krieg nach Deutschland kam

More than a thousand rolls of film lie in American archives with hundreds of hours of footage, shot from mid-February to early May 1945. Some scenes have been icons of history over the course of sixty years. The conquest of the bridge at Remagen, for example, or the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. However, most films have not been touched for decades. Spiegel TV author Michael Kloft has reviewed the entire stock and discovered many breathtaking scenes that have not yet been seen in Germany. Winter of 1944: American troops where heavily fighting in the Ardennes and in the Hürthgenwald. In February 1945 they began their major offensive, which was to bring the end of the Third Reich. There were forty cameramen of the US Signal Corps. They documented the downfall of Nazi Germany to 35mm celluloid: liberation and collapse, death and despair, cheering and relief -24 frames per second.