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View of the damaged Frauenkirche and other buildings including New Town Hall in Munich

View of the bomb damaged Frauenkirche Catholic cathedral in downtown Munich, Germany, at the end of World War 2 in Europe. Camera pans from top of towers down to ground level, with a pile of debris seen near the entrance between the towers. View of the interiors of the Church sanctuary, heavily damaged by bombing, with open sky visible. Wide view from an elevated tower position (presumably a Frauenkirche tower) of the bombed remains of the city of Munich at the close of World War II. Several wrecked buildings in view. View toward New Town Hall. Next scene at ground level shows U.S. Army jeeps and trucks, along with pedestrians passing by on street of Marienplatz with the New Town Hall behind.

Date: 1945, May 4
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040642
U.S. Army soldiers march German prisoners of war through the streets of captured Munich Germany, in World War II

Large numbers of surrendered German soldiers march in loose formation along a street in Munich, Germany, a week before the end of World War 2, in Europe. Point of view (POV) shot from camera moving beside and slightly faster than the column of surrendered and captured German soldiers. A group of American soldiers riding on a Sherman tank, pass the camera. Several M-36 Jackson tank destroyers pass, also loaded with U.S. soldiers. Two German women are seated, quietly, on a parked M1 57mm gun from an Anti-Tank Company of the 222nd Infantry Regiment (42nd Rainbow Division). Saddened German civilian spectators watch the goings on from an island in the center of the street. Pedestrians, cyclists, and people moving goods on hand carts, cross on an intersecting street. The columns of surrendered German soldiers line the other street, away from the intersection. Some of the German women watching wipe tears from their eyes.

Date: 1945, May 1
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040676
German people carry boxes filled with coal gathered from coal yards for fuel near end of World War 2

An old German man carrying a stick and a packet seen on the street in Munich in Germany. Several men and women carry boxes filled with fuel coal gathered from coal yards. Needy German women wearing gloves and scarves seen as they forage and gather fuel and supplies near end of World War 2 in Europe.

Date: 1945, May 1
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040679
U.S. Army aircraft mechanics repair a Stinson L-5 airplane in Germany

American Army Air Forces mechanics repairing a Stinson L-5 airplane engine on a grassy airfield in Germany, at end of World War II in Europe. Their tools are neatly laid out on a cloth on the ground. They are lapping valves and installing cylinders on the engine. The propeller and engine cowling is removed from the airplane to facilitate their work.

Date: 1945
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040696
German Jagdtiger tank destroyer being tested at the Henschel tank testing grounds, Mittelfeld, near Kassel, Germany.

German Jagdtiger tank destroyer, with "Porsche" running gear, being tested at tank testing grounds associated with the Henschel Werk III tank factory in Mittelfeld near Kassel, Germany, soon after conclusion of World War 2 in Europe. Tank is tested in forward and reverse. Affect of running in piled dirt is evaluated. (The filmed Vehicle is # 305004, which was eventually shipped back to the UK and is now at the Tank Museum at Bovington.)

Date: 1945, July 4
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041545
Colonel Damon Gun briefs Allied officers about the mindset of German people after bing defeated in World War II.

Allied Military Government activities in Europe after World War II. Men work in a saw mill. Planks of wood piled up as men work at the mill. A steel plant with production underway. A map of Germany. Damaged buildings. U.S. Colonel Damon Gun addresses Allied officers in Germany. He talks about the mindset of the Germans who have been cheated and led to defeat in World War II.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042613