Normal life of civilians after V-E Day in Stuttgart,Germany during World War II. Workers clean bomb damage on streets with shovels. Damaged buildings in the background.
Bomb damage after V-E Day in Stuttgart,Germany during World War II. Bomb damaged buildings and factories. Ford factory with broken windows after bomb damage. Trees in the foreground. Children play on the ground.
Bomb damage after V-E Day in Stuttgart,Germany during World War II. A truck moves through a street. View of bomb damaged buildings and factories. Heaps of debris in front of the damaged buildings. A woman walks through the street.
Head of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Himmler inspects Bosnian Muslim Waffen-SS troops (likely Kroatische-SS-Freiwilligen-Division or the Croatian SS Volunteer Division, later called the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar, 1st Croatian) training in Neuhammer Germany during World War II. Himmler seen reviewing Islamic Nazi troops wearing fez hats as their commander, General Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, follows behind. Hermann Fegelein is also seen briefly in the review. Götz Berens von Rautenfeld (wearing glasses) and Emil Kuhler seen briefly while Himmler is inspecting a rifle. Himmler observes artillery drill of Albanian recruits. Trees in the background. Himmler rides in a car.
U.S. First Army troops advance in Cologne, Germany during World War II. View of Cologne Cathedral still standing. Sherman tanks tow away street cars used to block roads. M-26 Pershing tanks roll through streets of Cologne. City almost destroyed by bombing. U.S. Soldiers walk through streets and fire machine guns from behind piles of rubble. Heaps of debris on streets. A German car is struck by a collapsing building. U.S. troops shoot at German soldier walking across street. Sherman tank firing from a park square. Close range view of a German Panzer tank, filmed by combat cameraman Jim Bates, as it is is hit by fire from an US Army M-26 Pershing tank (gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer) and the German crew jumps out. The tank goes up in flames. Wounded German soldier lying on ground. Two American officers shake hands, standing on an abandoned German Panther (Panzer) tank, in front of the Great Dome Cathedral, which was deliberately spared by U.S. bombers. Many German prisoners of war. Hohenzollern Bridge, destroyed by retreating German forces. A road sign reads: "Welcome to Koln, courtesy of the Spearhead Division." German residents stream back into the wrecked city. An older German civilian man sits on his luggage next to a damaged train track. Damaged street car on rubble-filled street. Views of the Cologne Cathedral, standing in the midst of destroyed city.
View of the Ludendorff bridge over the Rhine River, at Remagen, Germany. An American soldier crossing the bridge on a pedestrian walkway. Captured German prisoners. A jeep approaches the bridge to cross. U.S. antiaircraft guns fire at German planes attempting to bomb the bridge. German bombs seen splashing into the river near the bridge. U.S. army vehicles line street and cross the bridge. A sign posted on the bridge reads 'Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy 9th Armored Division'. U.S. Infantry men march across the bridge. U.S. forces arriving on the East bank, from the bridge. Large numbers of German prisoners march along a road, guarded by U.S. Army soldiers. Mountains in the background.
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