United States High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy arrives in Germany. John J. McCloy being greeted by Robert Murphy and General Clarence R. Huebner as photographers take pictures. A motorcade moves past Military Police honor guards. McCloy sits next to General Huebner during a press conference. He speaks to the press as correspondents take notes.
Jews in Germany. Men and women look at an Israeli poster in Germany . A large crowd gathered at a Jewish camp with the flag of Israel hoisted as displaced Jews leave for newly founded Israel. A group of people poses with a man in the middle holding a bunch of flowers. Men and women listen to a speaker. Israeli flag hoisted next to a monument.
A passenger airplane of the American Overseas Airlines in Frankfurt, Germany. It is on a multi-leg journey carrying 45 former War Correspondents back to Europe for celebrations commemorating the 5th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of World War II. Views of Frankfurt from a moving vehicle, high atop a ridge, looking down at the city, and winery grape fields. Many Frankfurt buildings visible and the Main River running beside the city. Views of some buildings still destroyed from World War II, five years prior. Several African American U.S. Army soldiers beside cars greet the party of former war correspondents. The correspondents meet with a U.S. Army General -- possibly J. Lawton Collins or Thomas Handy. A correspondent looks out from a window at a war-damaged building in the background. A street car with the sign "Nied Hochst" arrives at a stop and civilians get into it. Exterior and interior views of the main train station, the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. Some cakes and pastries in a bakery. Correspondents meeting with a local Frankfurt official and his wife. Remains of a largely destroyed church, likely either Frankfurt Cathedral (Imperial Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew) (German: Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomäus) or Katharinenkirche (the Church of St. Katherine). Views of the wrecked exterior and interior of the church. A West German flag draped over an interior balcony. Sign outside the church door indicates "Entrance to the Exhibition" (Eingang zur Ausstellung). A Germany girl selling trinkets at a market cart. German boys and girls in a market square and fair area, possibly Romerberg. Correspondents approach a booth selling cigars and cigarettes. More partially destroyed buildings in Frankfurt. Correspondents boarding a plane at Rhein Main Airbase. View of the airport terminal. Sign on a building reads 'Rhein Main Base Operations. Elev 358'. The correspondents boarding the American Overseas Airlines aircraft, and seated inside the aircraft. Aerial view of the German countryside below. Passengers sleep and relax aboard the airborne aircraft.
Rebuilding and reconstruction activities in Frankfurt, Germany after World War II. Exterior and interior views of the damaged Festhalle Frankfurt (Messe Frankfurt Venue GmbH, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany) at the Frankfurter Messegelände. Workers use an acetylene torch on a girder at the Festhalle construction site.
Reconstruction underway in Germany after the end of World War II. Cathedral of Cologne with a river in the foreground. Men clear rubble and damaged buildings in the city. Buildings under construction. Street cars and rubble strewn streets. A street photographer takes a picture of three women with a Cathedral in the background. Damaged buildings in the city. Munich: busy streets with construction work underway at many places. A painter paints a window trim. Stuttgart: people walk along the streets of the city. Many new buildings under construction.
Jews in Germany 4 years after the end of World War II. Cars carrying Jewish people move along a street to railway station as they leave for the newly founded state of Israel. The Israeli flag on a car. Men on bicycles. Men loaded onto a bus. Private cars decorated with branches move towards railway station. People gathered at the station. A man salutes.