Pedestrians on the street in Frankfurt Germany, outside the Frankfurt Central Station railroad station. Trolleys or streetcars on the street in recent post-war Germany. A building seen with a sign reading 'U.S. Army RTO'. Interior of the Frankfurt Central Station. Views of platform area in the train station, arched roof and glass. Trains seen leaving the station. Women and men sit and stand in the open large door of boxcars as the train slowly departs the station. Pedestrians exiting a train and filling the platform as they exit the station. View outside as people queue to ride streetcar trams or trolleys. A nun in a habit runs to catch a streetcar as it is pulling away.
German prisoners of war march through streets in Munich Germany, guarded by U.S. soldiers. German prisoners have their hands folded behind their head. Several United States Army soldiers are seen traveling in Jeeps. People are seen riding bicycles on streets. Damaged and destroyed buildings of downtown Munich and rubble from World War II Allied bombing are seen. Scenes from front and back of Karlstor gate (Neuhauser Str., 80331 München, Germany) as German prisoner columns pass through the historic gate.
Bombed city of Cologne (Köln) in Germany during World War II. Street sign reads 'Kaiser Wilhelm-Ring'. Destroyed buildings seen in the city. View of ruins and rubble in the city. Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) seen, its spires still standing amid the rubble all around it.
Spires of Cologne Cathedral silhouetted against sky in Cologne in Germany. In the interior of the Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) some damages caused by bombing is seen, during World War II. View of the front of the Cathedral.
Liberated United States prisoners (mostly military airmen) at POW camp called Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) VII A, located just North of Moosburg, Germany during World War II. The airmen cook food. Several are seen sunning themselves. Airmen seen shaving, shining shoes and cleaning clothes. A group of airmen around sign 'I Wanted Wings' and 'Luft 3'. These are some of the prisoners who were originally held at Stalag Luft III, in German Province of Lower Silesia, near the town of Sagan (now in Poland). (Note: Stalag Luft III is famous because the "Great Escape" took place there in March, 1944. Prisoners were forced to march from Sagan to Spremburg during the coldest winter in Germany in 50 years. There, they boarded a train of boxcars for a 3 day trip to Moosburg in January 1945, because the Russians were closing in. The addition of these prisoners to Stalag 7A, at Moosburg, led to serious overcrowding of the camp. On May 1, 1945, the New York Times reported that "The Fourteenth Armored Division liberated 110,000 Allied prisoners of war at Stalag 7A at Moosburg." This corrected an earlier report that 27,000 prisoners had been liberated.)
The American flag fluttering in the breeze from one of the towers of the Ludendorff Bridge, over the Rhine River, in Germany, during World War 2. A sign reads 'Cross the Rhine with Dry Feet, Courtesy of 9th Armed Div.' Several views of wrecked bridge over Rhine River. Bomb damaged buildings and rubble seen on the other side of the bridge, where U.S. Army trucks and ambulance are seen passing by. Dramatic clouds passing by overhead as trucks roll by past rubble of buildings in Remagen. Final sequence shows several trucks, filled with U.S. Army troops, proceeding further into Germany through the city of Remagen.
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