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Aerial view of damaged and destroyed buildings,and houses in Braunschweig, Germany, resulting from bombing by Allied forces in World War II
Aerial views from an airplane flying over the ruins of Braunschweig Germany, right after the end of World War 2, in Europe. Whole city blocks of buildings have been reduced to empty spaces and skeletons of buildings remain elsewhere. At first glance, a large building surrounded by trees seems undamaged, but closer examination shows it roof completely destroyed. However another large building in those woods does appear undamaged. Roadways and some areas appear cleared of debris. Almost all buildings have been destroyed. Aircraft films from higher altitude, showing miles of territory surrounding the city. Closer view at lower altitude shows the scenic river, Oker, bounded by trees and nearby houses with all windows and most roofs gone. At TC: 02:07 the Brunswick Cathedral is seen near the few other relatively undamaged buildings.
Newsreel depicting victory of Allied military forces capturing German cities and Nazi officials to end World War II.
Newsreel titled 'Allied Drives Split Germany'. Allied troops, tanks and soldiers fight a fierce battle on the streets of Leipzig and gain the control. Allied soldiers seize and guard the radio station in Leipzig. Allied forces win Nuremberg and Braunschweig. Destroyed buildings and houses after the fight. A German commander surrenders to American Major General. Glimpses of Hitler's speech at Nuremberg in 1932. U.S. soldiers atop the same stadium building in 1944. British Army men prisoners liberated and given food and cigarettes. A camp near river Rhine where German prisoners are released and Nazi army officers surrender. German Generals arrested by the Allied Forces. Soldiers of the 3rd Army explore stashed gold and currency reserves of Germany hidden in a salt mine. They also recover stolen art and classic paintings from German museums. Civilians registered by Allied military officials. A crowd in market hears suspension of Nazi government. Nazi army uniforms, arms, caps and badges in a stack to be destroyed. A map showing German-Russian frontier. Russian tanks rushing into German borders after bombing their bases. Tanks advance between destroyed houses, rising smoke and explosion from fights. U.S. and British forces bombing Magdeburg on the Elba river.
Patriotic ceremony and parade for Home Guards in Braunschweig, Germany, during World War II
Older men and youth, formed by the Nazis into a Home Guard (Volkssturm),late in World War 2, parade with regular army and SS units in Braunsweig, Germany. Young school children walk along a cobblestone steet and sidewalk in the historic district of the city, ahead of the marchers. Medieval style structures line the street. (This is shortly before the devastating bombing of the city, by the RAF, in October, 1944.) Nazi Gauleiter (who is also SS Gruppenführer) Hartmann Lauterbacher, reviews the marchers. Citizens line the sidewalks and render the Nazi salute. Some of the home guard march shouldering axes. Guards flank a banner with swastika in the center and the words: "Germany Awake." The banner pole is topped by a swastika, in a metal wreath and a plaque bearing the word,"Harz." Camera pans upward to Gauleiter Lauterbacher speaking to the assemblage from behind a wall overlooking the scene. Closeup of old men with white armbands reading:"Country Awake." Views of helmeted soldiers.
Remains of U.S. 8th Air Force aircraft shot down by German fighter aircraft and flak. U.S.flier POWs during World War II.
Tail and crushed wings of American B-17 bomber, one of several shot down over the Germany-Holland border, during World War 2. Bodies of two U.S. airmen lying on the ground next to the debris. Remains of crashed B-17, Serial number 42-39822, of the U.S. 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, which was shot down by German FW-190s while returning from a mission to Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, on January 11, 1944. A fuselage from downed allied warplane being hauled away on a truck. A junkyard filled with American warplane parts, stacked by type, engines in one pile, tails in another, etc. One vertical fin, marked with the 'triangle A' of the 91st Bomb Group, is from B-17G, tail number 42-37737, named "Tennessee Toddy" of the 401st Bomb Squadron. It crash landed after losing two engines, on 10 October 1943, at Brocklanderweg, near Apeldoorn, Holland. Two U.S. Army Air Corps prisoners being interrogated by a German officer. Group of United States airmen prisoners of war, apparently showing personal identifications (dog tags) to a German interrogator.
Contrasting views of Berlin, Germany from 1945 to 1943, to 1945 again, during World War II
Soviet Forces battling in Berlin during 1945, in World War 2, employ tanks and heavy machine guns. A Soviet soldier herds two German prisoners from a building. Groups of German soldier prisoners struggle through rubble as they are led from buildings, under guard. Soviet tanks firing as they pass a church building. A Soviet heavy gun being fired point blank on a Berlin street. Buildings on fire. Soviet soldiers firing artillery field pieces. Views of destroyed and damaged German military aircraft on and in hangars of an airfield. Soviet Ilyushin II aircraft land on the airfield. Closeup of distressed German General rubbing his eyes. Flashback in time to 1943, in World War II. Field Marshal Hermann Goering is seen reviewing flyers of a German Luftwaffe (Air Force) unit. A Junkers Ju 52 trimotor aircraft lands and parks on an airfield. Italian leader Benito Mussolini steps from the aircraft after his rescue from imprisonment by the Italian Government at the Hotel Campo Imperatore. He is personally welcomed by Adolf Hitler, who had ordered the mission to rescue him. Change of time, again, to 1945, when Berlin, Germany is attacked by Forces of the Soviet Union. Closeup of a despairing German General. Scenes of utter destruction as Soviet troops batter Berlin, Germany with artillery. Soviet soldier steps down from his tank and gives a Soviet General a handgun, which he pockets and then leads a group of Soviet officers into a building
German rotor ship Buckau and German Navy warships in Kiel, Germany.
View towards starboard bow of the German Rotor Ship, "Buckau", at anchor, being photographed from a small boat that rocks with the waves. Another view towards her starboard stern. Brief closeup glimpse of one of her 50 ft tall rotor cylinders. View of the "Buckau" from starboard, abeam. Change of scene shows a German Braunschweig-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine at anchor, viewed from the "Buckau." Camera pans port-side of the battleship, from stern towards bow, and continues panning left showing the deck and some crew of the "Buckau," from which it is filming. Next, two German warships are seen anchored, directly astern of the rotor ship.
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