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.
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
Long lines of depositors seen in front of the Dresdener Bank. The police keeps vigil on the crowd. Disorders are averted.
Arrival of displaced persons and refugees of World War 2 in New York, after the war. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. People greet relatives at the dock in New York. Two young men and a girl stand together and show the concentration camp tattoos on their arms. The tattoo numbers are A9496 on the young man with the hat, A13889 on the girl, and B3073 on the young man without a hat. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berel Gola (later called Bernard Gola) a 20 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he received the tattoo. A woman and a man holding a young girl stand. Women holding children stand by. A man holding a young child. People debarking from the ship. People crowd at the dock. They meet their relatives. People stand behind a fence. A woman greets her relative. An emotional woman cries when reunited with relatives.
Wrecked buildings in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Church of Our Lady before Týn (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Staré Město, Czechia). Wrecked buildings beside the church. Several men and women in front of the church. The Jan Hus Monument (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Staré Město, Czechia) at Old Town Square. The Church of Týn and a scaffolding for rebuilding in the foreground. The ruins of the Town Hall building following bombing in World War 2. Germans cleaning the ruins and rubble of the building. German prisoners walk past the damaged building. A signboard among the ruins indicating the direction of Dresden. Germans cleaning the ruins of damaged houses. German men and women cleaning up the remains of the railway station of Cheb at the border. A group of German women cleaning the ruins. German workers on top of a heap of bricks.
Views from dock in New York and from aboard ship as the SS Marine Flasher arrives in New York on May 20, 1946, after departing Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. Crowd of people gathered to greet passengers getting off the ship. Scenes show jubilant people and some reunions of family members or relatives. The passengers are largely displaced persons and refugees from World War 2. People disembark the ship. A woman with her child stands in front of a hatch. Three women aboard the ship pose. A woman kisses a man. People meet their relatives. People leave with their luggage. The luggage of the people with tags. Luggage tags with name (Ingeborg) Inge Rummeni of 824 North 38th St. Milwaukee Wisconsin on them. A woman and a child show concentration camp number tattoos on their arms from a Nazi German prison camp.
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