Groups of civilian men and women walk with their bicycles and cross the General Leslie J McNair bridge on river Rhine in Cologne, Germany after World War II. Trucks and vehicles with luggage and people in them cross the bridge. A signboard reads the name of the bridge. Allied soldiers keep a watch on the people.
German civilians read the news of end of Hitler and Mussolini era in a newspaper in Cologne, Germany after World War II. Newspaper Kolnischer Kurier published and distributed by the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF). Group of men read the news of death and the end of rule of Adolf Hitler in Germany and that of Benito Mussolini in Italy. A mother and her son read the newspaper. An old man reads the news with excitement.
A large building damaged due to bombing by the Allied bombers is inspected by Allied Government officers in Cologne, Germany after World War II. A United States Army officer talk to a German man and reads some documents. Other U.S. soldiers walk near the building. A large crack in the building wall.
Wrecked entrance gate of the General Leslie J McNair bridge on river Rhine in Cologne, Germany. Civilians return to the city after World War II. People on cycles, motorbikes and pedestrians enter with their luggage loaded on trucks, wagons and pulling carts. Wrecked building near the bridge. A signboard at the entrance reads the name of the bridge on Rhine river.
German civilians read the news of end of Hitler and Mussolini era in a newspaper in Cologne, Germany after World War II. Newspaper Kolnischer Kurier is published and distributed by the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF). Group of people read the newspaper and peep into it. An old man shows two young boys the news published in the newspaper.
German prisoners in Cologne, Germany after World War II. The prisoners are escorted into Military Government headquarters in a partially demolished police headquarter building. An Allied military jeep with soldiers guarding German prisoners, enters the building. German prisoners step out of the jeep and enter the jail building. A Military Government official at his desk in the jail speaks to a prisoner and issues orders on a paper to the Military Police guard.