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Transcript: German War Plant Razed

1945

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00:00:01 Destruction of the I.G. Farbin explosives plant is part of the well-mapped Allied plan to blot out Nazi war industries.

00:00:10 Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott, commanding the U.S. Third Army, oversees the job.

00:00:20 Two hundred tons of TNT do the trick.

00:00:30 Many of the buildings were constructed so that two floors were underground, well protected from our bombers.

00:00:40 But now the job is completed and almost 80 buildings are leveled.

00:00:44 The once powerful Nazi war machinery is slowly crumbling to dust.