WORLD WAR II IN COLOR - D-DAY TO DACHAU - Rare color footage is finally released

Hollywood director George Stevens compiled stunning color documentary footage of the

US army in Germany

final days of World War 2

Filmed on early color film reels - Stevens was in Europe for the opening salvo of D-Day fired by HMS Belfast to the fall of Berlin

Filmed the liberation of Paris, the horrors of Dachau concentration

Lay unused in his private collection back in the United States until his son discovered them

Picture:  The Allies drove eastward - General Bradley's 12th Army Group made contact with Ukrainian personnel near the German town of Torgau on the banks of the Elbe, linking the Americans and Russian army - Photo George Stevens, History Channel, Daily Mail

Read more and see additional pictures and video of D-Day and aftermath
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2643328/From-opening-salvo-D-Day-horrors-Dachau-onwards-fall-Berlin-Hollywood-directors-rare-color-footage-WW2-finally-released.html

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