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Care of hungry and malnourished children in post-war Germany, arranged by American Friends Service Committee (Quakers).
American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) relief activities in Germany after World War I. Children gather in school yard in Old Dresden to eat white rolls and bean soup. Hungry children sit in rows to eat . Children seen sitting in pram. Officials receive contributions of clothing and read letters of thanks from children and citizens in Headquarters offices of the American Friends Service Committee in Berlin, Germany. A letter of thanks from a girls school. A nurse examining and massaging a girl patient afflicted with rachitis from malnourishment. Concerns about Tuberculosis and rickets in the children. A woman seen with a child in her arms.
German war criminals are executed by Allied occupying forces in 1945, in World War 2
View from above, of the surrounding walls and courtyard of a prison in Rheinbach, Germany. Ground view inside the prison yard, where German civilian Matthias Gierens is being escorted to the gallows by U.S. military police, and accompanied by a German Catholic priest, on June 29, 1945. They ascend the gallows and final charges and sentence are read to Gierens. Next scene shows bodies stacked up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany. Scene returns to the gallows, and a hood is placed over Gierens' head. View of Allied army officer witnesses, in formation, at parade rest. Noose is placed over Gierens' hood. View of a a bird flying overhead, trapdoor opens, Gierens drops, and noose tightens. Next is an unrelated scene of several German soldiers being executed. They are seen hanging from four gallows in a line in a public square while a large crowd, possibly Soviet citizens, looks on. (Notes: Regarding the execution of Gierens in the opening scene: German civilian Matthias Gierens was a 37 year old railroad worker. He was executed for the August 15, 1944, murder near Priest, Germany, of a downed American airman, who was later identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant Lester E. Reuss. Gierens and three other German civilians, Peter Kohn, Peter Back, and Matthias Krein, were convicted on June 2, 1945 in Ahrweiler, Germany, of the murder. Their trial was the first Allied trial in Germany of civilians charged with a war crime.)
A monoplane glider and a Bavarian Club biplane aircraft take off from the Wasserkuppe hill in Germany.
Gliders in flight at a contest at the Wasserkuppe hill in Germany. A Dresden biplane takes off and in flight. The biplane lands. Parked monoplane gliders. A monoplane glider, with its wings shaped like a bird, takes off. Pilot Koller seated in under wing. Rudders of a biplane operate. Five men carry a Bavarian Club biplane. Men pull it by a rope as it takes off. A monoplane glider in flight. A monoplane rests upon an early model car to be used as a catapult for take off. A monoplane glider in flight.
The Soviet Union walls off East Germany from the rest of the world post WW2.
Animated map shows the four different zones of Germany after World War II.: British, Soviet, French and American Zone. Animated map focuses on the Soviet zone and shows the Iron Curtain rising along the Soviet Border. Russian troops march through streets in Berlin. Civilians board trains on streets. Russian woman directs traffic. Damaged buildings in the background. Russian officers enter and leave Headquarter in Berlin. East German men and women workers on farms. Russian soldiers and East German civilians pull heavy machinery for shipment to Russia. Interior of the Dresden China Works. Civilians mold and paint china articles.
Allies defeat Nazi Germany in World War II
Invasion of Germany by Allied forces during World War and unconditional surrender by Germany during World War 2. At TC: 00:19 thru 00: 21, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Commander of Axis forces in Italy, is seen outside a building in the mountains. Rear view of the war-damaged Reichtag building and View of the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops occupy Berlin. General Dwight D. Eisenhower conferring with an unidentified General. Lieutenant Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley are with him. Soviet soldiers waving to Americans on opposite sides of the Elbe River. American soldiers paddling an inflated boat across the river. U.S. 69th Infantry division and Russian 58th Guard Division troops under Major General Rusakov embracing meet at the Elbe River in Torgau Germany on April 26, 1945. Several succeeding views of American and Soviet soldiers celebrating together. A group of American and Soviet soldiers posing for pictures atop a concrete foundation with a banner across it reading: "Our Greeting to the Heroes Army of United States of America." A battery of tanks firing their guns. Two British soldiers with one pointing in a direction. A Soviet IS-2 tank moving past a burning building. Destroyed street sign pointing at Hamburg. Local citizens waving white flags. Allied armor crossing a bridge over the Rhine River. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery and German General Eberhard Kinzel sign a document of surrender at Lüneburg Heath on 4 May 1945. Civilians moving about on streets of Berlin after Germany surrenders in World War 2. A British soldier posts an announcement from Allied occupying forces declaring the dissolution of the Nazi Party. Closeup of German citizens looking at the announcement. Local people standing amidst rubble near damaged buildings. A British Cromwell tank moving past the camera. Glimpse of a German family. Sherman tanks moving along a roadway. American Lieutenant Generals Leonard T. Gerow and William Simpson in Berlin. Trucks and tanks driving past fires. A long line of German prisoners of war marching beside a field under guard. German General Alfred Jodl and others leaving a car and entering General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945, where General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs a document of unconditional surrender. Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff sit beside him.
Views of the Autobahn in Germany and of various cities connected by it
Film opens showing German Autobahn highway as viewed from a moving car. Automobile wheel wells and tires seen as cars move along the highway. Cars seen range from the most modest to the grandest. Overlay identifies Leipzig and shows Der Hauptbahnhof (central train station) in Leipzig, which was the largest in Europe at the time. Roadway passing it contains all kinds of vehicles, including a tram line. Next, the city of Dresden is identified with an overlay. Der Dresdner Zwinger – Palace Of The Elbe is seen with numerous fountains. People are relaxing on stone benches. The city of Breslau is featured next. Film shows churches near the Oder River. The city of Stettin is then seen. Focus is on Waly Chrobrego (Ramparts of the Brave), named after Polish King Boleslaw I Chrobry (11th c.). Shown is a beautiful promenade located on the bank of western branch of the Odra River. It is also known as Hakenterrasse "Terrace of Haken" named after mayor of Szczecin in years 1878-1907. A motor yacht is parked at the river front. Scene shifts back to the Autobahn, again, as a mercedes benz car is photographed heading toward the camera. A stone wall with "Berlin" and it's "coat of arms," engraved on it, introduces views of that city. Aerial View of Unter den Linden showing the Palace Bridge crossing the Spee River and wooded area of the Lustgarten to the right. Across the bridge to the left is the Zeughaus ( Arsenal) the oldest building on Unter den Linden. The airborne camera pans over the central area of Berlin. Then, suddenly, a closeup of the Autobahn is seen from a car riding on it. Views from a high speed automobile, racing along an essentially empty highway. Isolated image of a Nazi monument containing an Eagle atop a wreath containing a swastika. View from low flying airplane of vehicles traveling on the autobahn
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