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.
World War II news coverage of American General Lucian Truscott overseeing the destruction of a German I.G. Farbin explosives factory.
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Universal Pictures (Firm). “German War Plant Razed.” Dvds, 1945. TP 270 .H57 2007. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/rf0b929.
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