Garden allotments, small plots parceled out, for the townsfolk to grow vegetables in the British Zone of Occupation in Germany. The outskirts of Hamlin town: German women at work to grow vegetables, children in the foreground. Views of heads and bare feet of sturdy German women thrusting spades into soil. A very old woman. Hanover region- countryside: a farming area. Two old German peasants work in the foreground. Two old peasants rake the soil.
A film "The Occupation Soldier" depicts the efforts made by U.S. soldiers to bring back German civilians to normal life in Germany after World War II. A mass gathering of the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. German people accept the propaganda of their leaders and give Nazi salute with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Hitler addresses the gathering from a dais. A swastika sign on a stone. German civilians wave. Officers at a briefing. Dead bodies hanging and a pile of dead bodies. War scenes: Bombarding during the war. View of a city after the bombardment. U.S. soldiers walk along a road. The soldiers talk to German civilians. German civilians standing and smiling. German women and children. A pile of rifles on the ground. Newspaper headlines: 'Armistice', 'German Decree Republic'. The soldiers march on a road. Hitler addresses a throng.
A film depicts the efforts made by U.S. soldiers to bring back German civilians to normal life in Germany after World War II. Germans seated at a table talk. German civilians in a restaurant. Nazi prisoners are being taken by non Nazi German soldiers. A sign on a building reads 'WFB'. German civilians show their documents to an officer seated at a table. The Germans read posters pasted on a wall. Clergymen walk on a road. A judge in a court in session. Members of a labor union seated. School children are taught by a teacher in a class. Men listen to an open discussion by an official. Various newspapers seen. Soldiers inspect vehicles. People seated in an office. Two of them go out from the office.
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan bound for Hamburg Germany. The USS Manhattan underway at sea on July 15, 1936 en route to the 1936 Olympics. Athletes play a shuffleboard game aboard the ship. Jesse Owens, an American track and field athlete, Glenn Cunningham, and other famous persons aboard the ship. The passengers disembark from the ship in Hamburg. They are welcomed by German officials.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police (MPs). A civilian family in a car is stopped at a check post by a U.S. Army MP accompanied by a local policeman, in Germany. The driver presents identifcation document. An American 1955 Oldsmobile convertible car stops at barrier on opposite side of road, and the MP and local policemen clear it to enter as they also raise the barrier for the first car. Family in the departing car wave at family in the Oldsmobile. A line of German cars awaits entry at the checkpoint.
U.S. Army tanks leaving a town in Germany during the last days of World War II in Europe. A large convoy of U.S. Army tanks drive past. U.S. soldiers throw bricks in the foreground on a muddy incline to provide traction for other military vehicles. A tank drives up and stops. Personnel carriers and trucks and jeeps follow through the mud on the road. Soldiers spread hay or straw on a muddy incline for traction. Tanks move on a rural road past a burning building. Infantry men advance across an open field.
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