General Eisenhower inspects porcelain exhibits at an export show in Munich, Germany, not long after the end of World War 2. Several porcelain tea sets and vases seen arranged on tables covered with a table cloth. General Eisenhower inspects a motor bike at exhibition. He answers questions of news men. General Eisenhower and General Joseph T. McNarney leave in open cars. Sign reading 'Export Schau' in German and 'Export Exhibition' in English.
General Eisenhower at an Export Show trade exhibition in Munich, Germany. Housewares including toy trains, leather shoes, bags, earthenware and glassware on display. General Eisenhower along with other visitors at the porcelain exhibit. People laughing, talking and observing objects. Glass wares and other household objects seen arranged on tables at the Export Show, held soon after the end of World War 2 in an effort to help spark German commerce.
Huge crowd gathers to watch the arrival of United States dignitaries at the Munich-Freimann Displaced Persons Camp (DP Camp) in Germany. View of cars, bicycles and crowd gathered. United States dignitaries enter the car and leave, including General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Joseph T. McNarney. As the dignitaries arrive in cars the people stand in rows at the sides of the road to watch them.
General Eisenhower visits Munich-Freimann D.P. Center at Munich Germany. General Eisenhower, General Joseph McNarney and other officers visit the Freimann Displaced Persons Camp, housed int he former SS-Kaserne barracks facility. A sign reading 'Munich - Freimann SS Kaserne D.P. Center'. A crowd follows them as they inspect the camp.
View of garbage dumps in Bamberg in Germany. A woman seen with a basket. A group of men sitting with a bicycle and bags on their shoulders. Several number of children seen standing near the garbage dump. Garbage being unloaded from trucks. People grab for fragments of food in dump.
Large numbers of surrendered German soldiers march in loose formation along a street in Munich, Germany, a week before the end of World War 2, in Europe. Point of view (POV) shot from camera moving beside and slightly faster than the column of surrendered and captured German soldiers. A group of American soldiers riding on a Sherman tank, pass the camera. Several M-36 Jackson tank destroyers pass, also loaded with U.S. soldiers. Two German women are seated, quietly, on a parked M1 57mm gun from an Anti-Tank Company of the 222nd Infantry Regiment (42nd Rainbow Division). Saddened German civilian spectators watch the goings on from an island in the center of the street. Pedestrians, cyclists, and people moving goods on hand carts, cross on an intersecting street. The columns of surrendered German soldiers line the other street, away from the intersection. Some of the German women watching wipe tears from their eyes.
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