U.S. infantrymen in Munich, Germany during World War II. Twisted rails and smashed locomotives in a railroad yard. Sign for Bunzenhaufen Smoke rises from a building. U.S. infantrymen advance along bombed-out buildings and heavily damaged railroad marshaling yards.
U.S. infantrymen in Munich, Germany during World War II. U.S. tanks and infantrymen move around a farmhouse. The tanks advance along a road and enter a gated area with recently freed U.S. prisoners of war present. Liberated U.S. prisoners fraternize with their rescuers. The prisoners smile, laugh and cheer.
German civilians desperate for food, supplies, and fuel at end of World War 2 loot a warehouse in Munich, Germany. German civilians fill buckets with coal from a railroad yard and loot a warehouse for food. The civilians carry crates out of the warehouse. They break the crates with bricks.
Street scene in Munich, Germany, at end of World War II. Germans gathered at a street corner. An American jeep, displaying a single star on its bumper, driving along the street, past boys riding on bicycles. U.S. Brigadier General, carrying brief case, steps from jeep and enters building. Inside, two U.S. soldiers stand in front of a large map labeled Brunn's Plan of Munich. Group of high-ranking German officers enter room with an American soldier interpreter. They discuss the map with the U.S. Brigadier General. Outside a large group of German officers and POW German soldiers is gathered on a sidewalk. A larger group is assembled at a small square in front of buildings, guarded by members of the U.S. 222nd Anti-Tank Company of the 42nd Division. The German troop prisoners line up in formation and march, several abreast, along a street, led by a U.S.Army truck pulling a mobile weapon. Several American soldiers accompany the group. German citizens walking on street and sidewalks seem to ignore the activity. As the German soldiers pass through the ancient Munich Karlstor City Gate at the center of the city (Near Karlsplatz - Stachus, Neuhauser Street), they hold their hands behind their necks.
Funeral ceremonies in Munich, Germany during World War II. German troops lined up in front of a building. Rudolf Hess who is the Deputy to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler gives a Nazi salute and walks ahead. At a memorial building, wreaths are lined up including one bearing a ribbon with Adolf Hitler written on it. Rudolf Hess and other German officials lay wreaths for Nazis who perished in an explosion during a party meeting at a Munich Rathskeller (The Bürgerbräukeller beer hall).
Damage and ruin caused by an attempt on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's life in Germany during World War II. Ruins and debris of the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall where a bomb had exploded minutes after Adolf Hitler spoke in the hall at a Nazi party meeting. The debris is inspected. Victims on hospital beds. A victim of the bombing is interviewed in his hospital bed and he expresses relief that Hitler was safe. A German crowd in Munich pays homage to the dead. The crowd salutes flag-draped caskets of the eight killed in the blast. German troops lined up. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler salutes the flag-draped caskets and lays a wreath. Hitler meets family members of the dead. The caskets are carried along a street by the troops during funeral ceremonies. One of the wreaths bears a ribbon with wording "Adolf Hitler". A German crowd salutes the funeral procession.
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