German soldiers (prisoners of war) walk with hands on their heads, past U.S. M18 Tank Destroyers of 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion, attached to the 84th Infantry Division, a month before the end of World War 2, in Europe. An M4 Sherman tank makes way slowly through mud in a forested area of Lubbeck (Lübbecke) Germany. Scene shifts to a knocked out U.S. tank. A U.S. Army Lieutenant points to holes blown in the tank ( most likely by German panzerfausts). View looking into the tank reveals a dead U.S. crewman. Group of German soldier prisoners moves quickly along side of a dirt road, under guard by U.S. soldiers from the 334th Infantry Regiment. Another group of POWs moves on sidewalk past a cottage.
Scenes in Ickern, Germany following the town's defeat and occupation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Opening shot shows an American soldier in World War 2, with a paint box, kneeling down and touching up a letter on sign painted across a bridge that reads: "Visit Ickern -- A Good Place to Live --Now! 289 Inf. 75 Div. Chamber of Commerce--Every Home a Knockout!" The soldier walks across the bridge and stops to touchup more letters in the sign. Next, the soldier is seen touching up painting on a concrete pillar reading: "The 289 Inf." Closeup of the GI artist using his paint brush, as Sherman tanks pass on street behind him. Change of scene shows the artist working on another sign, reading: "The 289 Inf. 75 Div. took this town!" A tank pulling a caisson passes behind him. The soldier painter touches up another sign on a concrete wall reading: "Roses is Red, Violets is Blue, the 289th took Ickern for you, 75th Division." The artist paints "Kaput" on a German 8.8 cm Flak 41 anti aircraft gun set up on a street. An American soldier rotates the gun, showing more painted comments on its front that read, "Love and Kisses from the 289 Inf 75 Div." Standing in front of a building with a huge hole in it, the artist paints, "This home is a knockout! 289 Inf. Chamber of Commerce." German woman and young boy stand at corner as GI artist paints message on house behind them. German civilian passes on a bicycle as the artist paints on a destroyed German truck. The Message reads, "GI Cooks Tour on Hitler's Autobahn, Courtesy of 289 Inf. 75 Div."
Activities of civilians in Ickern, Germany during World War 2. View of the damage caused in the city. German civilians clean the debris of the damaged bridge. Civilians carry personal belongings across a damaged bridge. Men do the welding work and repair the damaged bridge. (Note: The Street with the Bridge is now callled "Emscherstrasse." It is a link road between the Streets "Uferstrasse" and "Vinckestrasse.")
The life of civilians after V-E Day in Stuttgart, Germany at the end of World War II. A woman buys vegetables from the stand on a street. The sellers place vegetables on weighing machines. Civilians walk through streets. The frame of a bombed damaged building. Workers clean rubble from sidewalk with pick and shovels.
The life of civilians after V-E Day in Stuttgart,Germany at the end of World War II. Girls in bathing suits sit near a swimming pool. A man swims. Men walk with shovels through streets. A bomb damaged building in the background.
Normal life of resuming for residents in Stuttgart,Germany at the end of World War 2. in Europe. People enter trolley cars (aka trams or street cars) powered by overhead electric cables, in front of the Stuttgart Königsbau (which later became a pedestrian district). View from inside a moving tram as it traverses a route in the city., first towards the train station and then left past the Gloria passage where you can see bomb-damaged buildings and heaps of debris at sides of the roadway. A large group of people step out from where they had been waiting, and walk beside rubble in a narrow part of one street, to board a waiting street car.
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