Allied bombers bombard heavy German industries during World War II. Allied planes in the sky and a convoy underway at a sea heading for Normandy. Allied troops land in Normandy. Men wading ashore after disembarking from landing crafts. Allied Supreme Command in meeting. General George C. Marshall confers with British officers. United States Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber (“One Night Stand”) drop bombs over Germany. More bombers dropping bombs over enemy position. Aerial view of bombs hitting factories in Germany. Captured German troops in a forest. Abandoned German tanks left on the road in the Eastern Front. Allied troops advance in the Ardennes Forest. German tank production at a factory in Plauen, Saxony, Germany. Undercarriage of a tank. Tank tracks and wheels. United States bombers bomb tank factories in Saxony. Ruins and rubble of the destroyed tank factory. Transport and communication centers are bombed.
Displaced civilians and prisoners of war in Germany near end of World War 2. Displaced persons get off the trucks at a German non-com school in Bergzabern, Germany where they will be housed. People stand in a line. Refugees prepare their meal over an open stove. Displaced persons receive food at Red Cross portable kitchen. 2200 American prisoners of war after being liberated from stalag 9-B in Breslau, Germany. Prisoners being addressed by an American officer at the camp area. A soldier with a tin stands in a line. A soldier with a chunk of bread. Released prisoners receive coffee in mugs and they drink it. Medics carry a man on a litter out of a building. Soldiers receive cigarettes and rations.
Fall of Berlin, Germany. Russian Army attacks Germany during Battle of Berlin near end of World War 2 in Europe. Soviet Russian forces firing rockets into Berlin at night. Explosions and fire at night in Germany. Past events show Adolf Hitler at a torchlight parade. Nazi soldiers in the parade. Scene returns again to Battle of Berlin and rubble on streets of Berlin. Wrecked and damaged buildings. Flames and smoke rising up from the buildings. German civilians loot stores for food and goods. Desperate men and women rush out of the store with the goods amidst rubble in city.
Scenes in Germany in 1920s and 1930s. Changes in Germany during Adolf Hitler's leadership. Workers on strike. Workers sitting with no work. Hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic 1921-1923 after World War I. Money, drafts and notes with huge values seen due to inflation. Woman buying from vendor with large prices posted. Band musicians playing jazz music, people dancing as inflation becomes uncontrollable. Men are given shovels to march with by Nazi official (likely early Reich Labor Service or RAD of NSDAP). Adolf Hitler speaks to a crowd about rebuilding of Germany. The launch of several ships. First is seen the launch of luxury ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1937, with Hitler present on a podium. (The MV Gustloff was the first ship built specifically for the German Labor Front’s Kraft durch Freude (“Strength Through Joy” program.) German officials give Nazi salutes. German flags on the ship.
85th birthday celebration of Konrad Adenauer in Germany. Konrad Adenauer, former Chancellor of West Germany celebrates his 85th birthday with his family in in his house in Rhöndorf. Lighted candles in a silver bowl. Civilians in long reception line to greet Adenauer. Adenauer reviews troops. Adenauer and his grandchildren in the family observances. Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of West Germany, toasts a glass of champagne with Adenauer. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt greets the beloved former chancellor. Ministers and leaders congratulate Adenauer and raise a toast. Adenauer emerges on a balcony.
The Germans sign unconditional surrender in Berlin, Germany on May 8, 1945 during World War II, signing a document similar to the one signed at Reims the day before. People gathered outside a German Army Engineering School. Soviet General Georgi Zhukov and British Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder at a desk as they represent the Allies. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and other officers representing Germany arrive. Keitel puts his signature on the document of unconditional surrender. Zhukov and Tedder also put their signatures as they take over Germany. The two officers shake hands. Allied officers tour the city of Berlin. Damaged buildings in the city due to Allied bombings. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The heavilly damaged Hotel Adlon. Aerial views of the damage caused due to Allied bombings in Hamburg. Damaged buildings and shipyards in Hamburg.
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