President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. Motorcade of President Truman returning after visit to the damaged city of Berlin in Germany. A continuous line of refugees walking along the express highway from Berlin. Man and woman carry their luggage on a cart, their small children push the cart from behind. Signboard indicating 'Zehlendorf 1000 m'. Another signboard indicating the region of the 'US Berlin District'.
Alsos operation in Germany. Brandenburg gate in Berlin soon after the end of World War 2. Soviet Russian motorized unit passes on road. Views of Berlin main areas as seen from a moving vehicle. Ruins of bombing seen in city and crowd lined up on roadside. Citizens clearing rubble of buildings. American unit passes through Brandenburg gate near citizens in a black market area. Troops and crowd gathered outside a building. American officers walk out of a building at conclusion of the Alsos mission.
United States Army soldiers guard the entrance of Burger-Brau Keller in Munich in Germany. United States Army troops of 42nd (Rainbow) Division march past the entrance. Isar river seen with the bridges intact. (World War II period).
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.
German prisoners marched through streets of Munich Germany, after its capture by Allied forces in World War II. Column of German Army soldiers 3 deep marches out of the city. United States Army jeeps seen on streets. Several people seen riding bicycles on street. Pedestrians seen on streets.
German civilian crowd seen on the streets in Munich in Germany near end of World War 2, with poverty and scarcity common. Men and women carrying sacks of fuel coal on shoulders. People carrying boxes and buckets filled with coal gathered from coal yards. Several people load coal on hand carts. People gather near the entrance of a warehouse or tunnel. They crowd and push each other as they try to get boxes of supplies from inside the storage area. Two German women use bricks or stones to try to break open a wooden supply container (unsuccessfully). Other German citizens carry away similarly sized boxes of unknown supplies.