SCENES IN ARRAS SHORTLY AFTER ITS LIBERATION BY BRITISH TROOPS [Allocated Title]

The 11th Armoured Division despatched some of the prisoners taken during its advance from Amiens to Arras where the local Resistance parades collaborators before the townspeople.

A procession of three-ton lorries from the 29th Armoured Brigade's RASC Company loaded with German prisoners enters Arras. Large crowds gather in the Grande Place to witness the parade of collaborators organised by the local FFI. Armed members of the Resistance escort a group of about twenty male collaborators through the centre of Arras. The camera pans from the spire of the church of St Gery where the bells ring out the French and British National Anthems, to townspeople watching women collaborators being displayed along the Rue St Gery.

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