The Museum of Modern Art in New York City during World War II. Visitors look at model display of post-war houses. A woman stands in front of George Fred Keck House. A board reads 'Sun excluded in summer and sun flood room in winter'.
Senator James Mead of New York in Silver Spring, Maryland. Senator James Mead and Mayor of Louisville Wilson Wyatt inspect temporary re-use war housing. Sign board outside a houses read 'Demountable Houses- Prefabrication', 'Temporary War Housing' and 'Portable Family Dwelling'.
A meeting of the Public Housing Council Committee in Silver Spring, Maryland. Mayor of Louisville Wilson Wyatt comes up on a stage and gives a brief speech. He speaks about Temporary War Housing problems and their solutions. He talks about building houses for citizens regardless of creed and color. He also talks about residential and office housing. The committee members are seated on the stage. Immediate post-war era.
Scenes following the Battle of Tangermünde in Germany during World War II. Wounded German civilians and soldiers on a landing craft. They cross the Elbe River to the American side. A child on a stretcher with his hands and legs bandaged. Soldiers and attendants get off the landing crafts.
German troops surrendering to Americans at Tangermünde, Germany, at the end of World War 2. German soldiers place their rifles onto a heap as they clamber through debris of a damaged bridge, crossing from Soviet-occupied area on the East side of the Elbe River, to surrender to Americans on the West bank, in Tangermunde, Germany. View of a huge stack of German army rifles. German soldiers walking across the partially destroyed bridge, that can only handle a single line of pedestrians. On the West bank, a solitary Soviet soldier has taken it upon himself, to curse and kick at German soldiers, as they pass where he is standing. Many of the German soldiers, avoid his kicks. None really pay any attention to him, as they hurry past. U.S. soldiers nearby pay little attention to his pranks. A sign nearby reads: "Das Verdanken wir unserem Fuhrer 405th Infantry." Smoke rises from the East bank. Scene shifts to more German soldiers, stacking arms on the pile of rifles, as they walk onto the bridge. Back on the West bank, the Russian soldier continues his antics.
German soldiers assist a wounded soldier to walk, with the wounded man putting an arm over the shoulders of each helper for support. A United States officer interrogates a German prisoner. German prisoners and soldiers move across the bombed Tangermünde bridge. A few civilians swim in the river Elbe below. View of the damaged Tangermunde Bridge. A landing craft moves in the Elbe River.
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