Victory in Europe Day celebration in Wiesbaden, Germany to mark th end of World War II. Speaker addresses a group of people. Another speaker addresses. UNNRA (United Nations Relief And Rehabilitation Administration) representative speaks to a group as Russian interpreter translates for him. Russian girl talks to a group people. Russian Major addresses group. Group of assembled DPs listen to speaker. They hold banners ,portrait of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin,Premierof the Soviet Union and Red flags DPs applaud speech. Buildings in the background. Speaker addresses group. Band plays Russian Anthem.
Activities of German military prisoners in Wiesbaden, Germany under U.S. forces, in the last days of World War II in Europe. German soldier prisoners aboard German armored vehicles (including a SdKfz 234 with a Luchs turret) parked along road side. German soldier holds loaves of bread. Charcoal burning automobile on street. Young German soldier (a young boy soldier) behind steering wheel of a truck is seen smiling. Nun talks to a German soldier. German convoy parked on the street. Prisoners lay down on field. United States Army Colonel is talking to a group of liberated prisoners freed from German prison camp. The Army Colonel talks to a young man of African descent who is wearing a prisoner hat and prisoner uniform with an inverted red triangle prison camp badge indicating a political prisoner. Liberated concentration camp prisoners show identification number tattoos on their arms. They are seen smiling.
Activities of surrendered Germans in Wiesbaden, Germany after the end of World War II in Europe. High ranking Germans talk over surrender. Nazi General poses. Surrendered German soldiers lying down on a field. Mountains and trees seen in the background.
Bomb damage in Berlin, Germany in the area of the so-called Fuhrer Bunker, shortly after the end of World War II in Europe. Bomb damaged buildings, air raid shelters, and fortifications of the Führer Headquarters (Führerhauptquartiere). View of the Reich Chancellery Garden area (Garten Reichskanzlei) and exterior of the Adolf Hitler Fuhrerbunker at the back of the Reich Chancellery. Heaps of debris in front of the bomb damaged buildings. Tail of an exploded mortar shell on the ground. View of a wrecked truck. Pock marks by shells seen on buildings used as fortifications and shelters. More Mortar tails partially embedded in the ground. (Note: The buildings in this area were demolished in 1947 by the Soviets.)
Activities of United States Army Air Force 354th Figher Group at an airfield in Ansbach Germany after Victory in Europe during World War 2. United States airmen stand around a damaged German FW-190 aircraft at airfield in Ansbach Germany. The aircraft has just been belly landed without landing gear by U.S. Lt. Bruce Carr who had taken it from a German airfield near Linz, Austria. American pilot Bruce Carr is seen beside the damaged aircraft talking with fellow airmen who have gathered. He is seen shrugging his shoulders. View shifts to another FW-190 taxiing. In the cockpit is 1st Lt. Fred Fehsenfeld of the 353rd FS. He taxis on the airstrip and parks the aircraft. U.S. airmen crowd around the airplane as Fehsenfeld climbs out of the cockpit, onto the wing. American airmen examine several German FW-190 fighter airplanes, reviewing the aircraft in detail. They are seen looking in cockpits, examining pitot tube, looking at damaged tail wheel, and trying to turn the propeller of one. A U.S. P-47 fighter airplane lands at the airfield. Mountains seen in the background.
Gun camera images from U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft strafing German enemy targets on road in Germany near end of World War II in Europe. Target explodes Grasslands seen.