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.
Activities on the streets of bombed out and devastated Berlin, Germany shortly after World War II in Europe ended. German women in a bucket brigade. They pass buckets filled with dirt and debris, to clear bombed areas and wrecked buildings. Heaps of debris in front of damaged buildings in the background. Civilian men and women haul their belongings on carts on the streets. Vehicles drive past.
Food aid for German and Austrian children soon after the end of World War 2 in Europe. British trucks loaded with food containers drive up to a school building in Vienna, Austria. A British truck approaches the school building. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets. Men unload the food containers from the trucks. A truck loaded with the food containers drives past through the streets. Trees on either sides of the streets. An open truck filled with bread drives past along a street. A line of school children marches through the streets. Buildings on either sides of the streets.