The mobilization and deployment of the German Army early in World War I. German soldiers stand with baggage and supplies. Horse drawn carts loaded with supplies. Garlanded trucks leave Berlin carrying newly recruited soldiers. Officers on horses and horse drawn carts ride past a cheering crowd. The soldiers on a railroad station before leaving for war. The cavalry march. German soldiers wave to their relatives from a train before departing for war front. People on platform and the band playing. Verdun : Supplies on rail road cars. Soldiers near a train.
Hot molten steel in a steel mill in Germany. Hot steel rods in process at the factory. Men work outside welding steel girders and beams to create a large steel frame or building structure. Men stand on the skeletons of buildings. Manufacture and launch of a giant German ship involving steel. Various ships and scaffolding at the shipyard. Tall steel girder bridges in Germany are shown. Various views of the Tagblatt-Turm (Tagblatt Tower) building in Stuttgart Germany just a few years after its completion -- an example of early modernism and in stark contrast to other older buildings in the area. A high rise building seen behind an old stone gate structure in Germany. Buildings and houses in the area.
United States President John F. Kennedy visits West Germany. Men rolling out the red carpet in Cologne Bonn Airport (Kennedystraße, 51147 Köln, Germany). President Kennedy disembarks from the Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000, Boeing 707-353B). German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer welcomes President Kennedy. Kennedy and Adenauer review the honor guard. Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard greets Kennedy. They board in a car. People on the sides of streets in Cologne as the President's motorcade passes. A large crowd cheers and waves U.S. flags. President Kennedy attends a Catholic mass at Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany). Police try to control the people. German men and women running to meet President Kennedy. A banner read ' Welcome President Kennedy'. Another one reads 'common struggle for peace and freedom'. President Kennedy addresses people in front of Bonn City Hall (Markt 2, 53111 Bonn, Germany). People wave small United States flags.
Famous tourist destinations and architecture in Heidelberg, Germany, before World War 2. Views of Heidelberg and the Old Bridge (Am Hackteufel, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany). Trees in the background. A statue of Pallas Athena on the Old Bridge. Trees around the Heidelberg Castle (Schlosshof 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany). A ruined building in the castle seen. A view of the Church of the Holy Spirit or Heiliggeistkirche (Marktpl., 69117 Heidelberg, Germany) from the castle.
Allied forces advance deeper into Germany after crossing the Rhine. Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in Germany during World War II. Allied planes in sky. Allied troops advance in Germany after crossing Rhine River. U.S. soldiers held prisoners by Germany are liberated from a POW camp by British forces. Scenes of jubilant freed American prisoners cheering their British rescuers and having food and drink. Some of the freed prisoners hold a newspaper announcing the death of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Displaced civilian persons walk on roadways as refugees carrying few possessions. They had been slave laborers for the Germans. Some walk along slowly with no shoes. Prisoners freed from Belsen concentration camp by the British 11th Armored Division. The German prison Camp Commandant, Josef Kramer, seen under guard by British soldiers. Emaciated and unburied corpses on the grounds of Bergen-Belsen camp. Emaciated man seated. Emaciated corpses being thrown into a mass grave. German women made to view the atrocities are seen crying and weeping. Prisoners behind barbed wire. Medics tend to a prisoner. Various views of different concentration camp victims. U.S. planes in flight.
Passengers aboard a Rhine River steamer in Germany. Tourists watch the scenes along the Rhine River. Passengers dining onboard. View of the Wertheim Castle (Schloßgasse 11, 97877 Wertheim, Germany) in Baden-Württemberg. Ferry transport carries men and vehicles across the lake. Ship captain steers ship’s wheel. Passenger ships underway in the Rhine. A town near Lake Constance in Germany. A train heading for Scandinavia leaves Lake Constance. A Seedienst Ostpreußen ferry sailing the Baltic Sea to the German exclave of East Prussia.
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