American officers and other NATO Military in Brandenburg to watch a partial withdrawal of the Soviet Army as it demobilizes and reduces forces in East Germany. Russian photographers take pictures. A number of obsolete and propeller driven planes are part of the demobilized equipment. The first contingents of 50,000 Soviet troops depart.
River Elbe and a bridge across it in Hamburg, Germany. Important building, a man shakes hands with a woman and she gets into a car. An equestrian statue in Hamburg showing a German officer riding a horse. A Mercedes drives to the country side. Point of view shot from inside moving convertible Mercedes, looking out toward highway and German countryside. Footage is from Eva Braun movies, early in World War 2.
End of World War Two in Europe. A C-47 takes off. Numerous United States Army Air Force aircraft fly in skies over Germany, including: P51s, P-38s, P-47s, and A-26s. A lamppost in the foreground. U.S. aircraft fly over bomb damaged buildings. Damage around an old bridge in Rogensburg.
Landsberg concentration camp in Germany during World War II. Guard towers in the camp area. A board in German reads ' Regards! Storage area ! Standing still and taking pictures are prohibited. Violations will be punished'. Barrack buildings and a barbed wire fence around the camp.
View from aircraft flying over the Elbe River, at Tangermunde, after Germany surremdered in World War 2. It flies over the bridge there, which has been severely damaged, with its span touching the water at one point. The aircraft continues flying over nearby rail yards.
View of the Elbe River, at Tangermunde, after Germany surrendered in World War 2. Objects floating in the water. Closeup shows twisted steel of severely damaged bridge over the river. Some German soldiers are seen crossing the bridge. View of bridge from American-occupied bank of the Elbe. The bridge span is seen to have dropped to touch the water on the other side of the river. Two young women in their underwear, rush along a path in a park on one bank of the river. A German soldier with face bandaged accompanies a young woman along the path. a German soldier smoking a cigarette, stands near a park bench. One of the young women, previously seen, stands, now wrapped in a tarp covering, next to an American tank. The twisted bridge is immediately behind her. She walks past the camera. Scene shifts to people crossing the bridge. A woman carrying a baby in arms hurries past several German soldiers seated on the ground. Next, many women and children are seen with their belongings, trudging past the seated German soldiers. Two women walk past the camera, one wearing a German Army uniform. Scene shifts to opposite side of the Elbe River, where the dropped bridge span touches the water. German soldiers are making their way across on planks placed there temporarily. A German soldier and a woman help an injured soldier on the river bank. German soldiers are gathered beneath the bridge span. Two help a third who is in the water. Two German soldiers, one a Red Cross medic, carry the man, as numerous German civilians surrounding them, look on. Closeup of German soldiers carrying arms, including panzerfaust (hand-held anti-tank weapon), crossing the bridge. They pass an American soldier on the American-occupied side of the Elbe, where they must deposit their arms with others already stacked in piles.
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