U.S. infantrymen in Munich, Germany during World War II. Twisted rails and smashed locomotives in a railroad yard. Sign for Bunzenhaufen Smoke rises from a building. U.S. infantrymen advance along bombed-out buildings and heavily damaged railroad marshaling yards.
U.S. infantrymen in Munich, Germany during World War II. U.S. tanks and infantrymen move around a farmhouse. The tanks advance along a road and enter a gated area with recently freed U.S. prisoners of war present. Liberated U.S. prisoners fraternize with their rescuers. The prisoners smile, laugh and cheer.
German civilians desperate for food, supplies, and fuel at end of World War 2 loot a warehouse in Munich, Germany. German civilians fill buckets with coal from a railroad yard and loot a warehouse for food. The civilians carry crates out of the warehouse. They break the crates with bricks.
Street scene in Munich, Germany, at end of World War II. Germans gathered at a street corner. An American jeep, displaying a single star on its bumper, driving along the street, past boys riding on bicycles. U.S. Brigadier General, carrying brief case, steps from jeep and enters building. Inside, two U.S. soldiers stand in front of a large map labeled Brunn's Plan of Munich. Group of high-ranking German officers enter room with an American soldier interpreter. They discuss the map with the U.S. Brigadier General. Outside a large group of German officers and POW German soldiers is gathered on a sidewalk. A larger group is assembled at a small square in front of buildings, guarded by members of the U.S. 222nd Anti-Tank Company of the 42nd Division. The German troop prisoners line up in formation and march, several abreast, along a street, led by a U.S.Army truck pulling a mobile weapon. Several American soldiers accompany the group. German citizens walking on street and sidewalks seem to ignore the activity. As the German soldiers pass through the ancient Munich Karlstor City Gate at the center of the city (Near Karlsplatz - Stachus, Neuhauser Street), they hold their hands behind their necks.
Allied officials receive a surrender from a German officer in Berlin, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. A Soviet officer reviews Red Army troops parading at an airport after the Soviet capture of Berlin. Exteriors of a headquarters in Berlin. Soviet Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, British Air Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. General Carl Spaatz receive surrender from German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
The United States Army 415th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along a street in Cologne. A soldier fires a rifle. Another soldier observes the surroundings through binoculars. Soldiers advancing on the street and firing rifles. Debris and rubble on the street. Destroyed buildings on both sides of the street. Wrecked vehicles on the street. Two soldiers talking.