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D-Day to Germany: Cameraman Jack Lieb comments on original footage of 1944-45

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Published on 27 Mar 2021 / In Film & Animation

Spectacular HD-scanned footage of 1945 with narration by newsreel cameraman Jack Lieb. According to this source (https://unwritten-record.blogs.....archives.gov/2014/0 Lieb's voice had been recorded in 1976 by his son, Warren, one of his final lectures. Lieb went to Europe in 1943 to film war coverage for Hearst’s News of the Day newsreels.

0:00 London (Westminster Abbey)
10:06 Landing on the Utah beach (by a british landing craft)
23:46 Mont St. Michel
30:19 Paris (on the day of liberation)
37:16 Westwall
38:10 Aachen
39:11 Berlin

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Lucifer333
Lucifer333 3 years ago

WW2 (1939) was just the same WW1 (ended 1918) with a 20 year armistice in between.

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jim bennett
jim bennett 3 years ago

My grandfather Andrew Musser was a medic at Utah Beach on D-Day.. His grandparents came from Austria and were German and Austrian.. from Bergenland which is like a state in Austria.. I am unaware of his politics.. but he was an American.. Am I part jewish? I don't know lol.. don't really care.. wait, jewish is a religion.. heh,. I know the German side name Roser.. Austria in known for firearms.. I have a steyr mannlicher rifle from austria..

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ErickRendoza 204
ErickRendoza 204 3 years ago

I bet the stories growing up where amazing.

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Lucifer333
Lucifer333 3 years ago

Yeah. Pretty sad Europeans fighting other Europeans .. jewish God is a tribal God.. just like Troye had Apollo. Or Athens had Athena.

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