Russian and American troops meet in Germany during World War II. Russian girls and soldiers at the bank of a river. Russian girls just released from slavery under Nazi German forces make a fuss over Russian soldiers. Russian girls talk to soldiers. Soldier proudly displays his decorations. Russian girls and soldiers wait at the bank of the river.
Russian and American troops meet in Germany during World War II. Russian and American soldiers talk. American Major-General Emil F. Reinhardt, Commanding General of the 69th Division with his Russian counterpart, Major-General Vladimir V. Rusakov, Commanding Officer of the 58th Guards Division and American and Russian troops march on road. General Emil and General Rusakov talk as they march. US, Russian, and British flags on display.
After ten years German prisoners of war return to their home land from Russian captivity. A vehicle enters into Germany. Men, women and children sitting in the bus. They wave. Children meet their fathers for the first time. Two brothers meet and their heart-warming reunion erases any bitterness.
Germany in ruins after the end of World War II. Aerial views of skeleton buildings and rubble in Leipzig. Industrial Magdeburg is destroyed by dive bombers of the U.S. Tactical Air Forces. The huge Krupp tank factory is destroyed. Partially finished tanks on an assembly line. The stone swastika is replaced with stars and stripes. U.S. troops ( Yank troops ) blast a surrounding stone swastika. A huge rallying stadium serves as a parade ground for the yank troops.
War crimes trial in Germany of 61 accused war criminals associated with the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, following end of World War 2. Interior of a tribunal. American officers sit at a table. The U.S. flag in the background. An American prosecutor questions one of the accused Germans and hands him a card with the numeral 13 for identification purposes. The accused are given cards for identification purposes. An accused answers the questions.
German refugees at a camp in Germany. Men entering a building lobby, show their identification papers. People seated at a desk talk. Families with all their belongings finding their way to assigned quarters in the camp. A sign reads: "Haus E" and "Police Registration" (in German). A woman walks with a baby. Group of refugees stands near a low building. Two children run and play around some dumpsters. Families carrying suitcases board a special bus. A woman serves food to families in a dining hall. Views of several persons seated and eating a meal. Women hanging wash to dry on clothes lines behind their housing. (Note: This might be the Marienfelde refugee transit camp around 1953, showing East Germans fleeing to the West. )
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