Scenes after the destruction of the Tangermünde Bridge over the River Elbe in Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. Wide view of heavily damaged Tangermunde Bridge. It had been blown-up by German forces a month prior during their retreat toward Berlin. American soldier wearing garrison cap or side cap stands on bridge checking papers of German civilians who are attempting to cross the bridge in advance of incoming Soviet forces (preparing to surrender to American and British allies rather than to Soviet forces). German civilians walk along the damaged bridge. The twisted metal requires that the citizens hold on tightly to their belongings and to small children during the crossing, to avoid falling into the river. A young man holds a young child and belongings as he crosses carefully. Other scenes of men and women holding small children and babies, and luggage and belongings as they cross.
Scene in Germany as World War Two winds down in Europe. Russian troops in class A uniforms, ride on a captured German Sdkfz.251/21 Drilling half-track ,on street of a German town. They get down from the half-track and converse.
American B-26 bombers attack waterways and interdict other lines of communication in Germany during final phases of World War II in Europe.
Czech soldiers in Prague, Czechoslovakia near end of World War 2 in Europe. The soldiers sing as they march in the streets. Civilians stand beside a street and watch them. The soldiers carry rifles on their back. A group of liberated United States military and New Zealand military prisoners stand on a bridge.
German troops on the move in Czechoslovakia, following their surrender, near the end of World War II in Europe. Some of the troops rest in a field and do their best to clean up in water from small roadside stream. A continuous convoy of German military vehicles and troops move along the road in background. Several German officers converse at side of road.
Ending of World War II in Europe. A crowd of German civilians (including some families of German troops who have surrendered in Czechoslovakia) wait and rest in a field in Czechoslovakia. German civilians with luggage during expulsion from Czechoslovakia. A man pours water in cups from a water truck. They stand in line for bread. A German woman and baby. An elderly German woman and a man sit.