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Former war correspondents tour Frankfurt, Germany five years after World War 2

A passenger airplane of the American Overseas Airlines in Frankfurt, Germany. It is on a multi-leg journey carrying 45 former War Correspondents back to Europe for celebrations commemorating the 5th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of World War II. Views of Frankfurt from a moving vehicle, high atop a ridge, looking down at the city, and winery grape fields. Many Frankfurt buildings visible and the Main River running beside the city. Views of some buildings still destroyed from World War II, five years prior. Several African American U.S. Army soldiers beside cars greet the party of former war correspondents. The correspondents meet with a U.S. Army General -- possibly J. Lawton Collins or Thomas Handy. A correspondent looks out from a window at a war-damaged building in the background. A street car with the sign "Nied Hochst" arrives at a stop and civilians get into it. Exterior and interior views of the main train station, the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. Some cakes and pastries in a bakery. Correspondents meeting with a local Frankfurt official and his wife. Remains of a largely destroyed church, likely either Frankfurt Cathedral (Imperial Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew) (German: Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomäus) or Katharinenkirche (the Church of St. Katherine). Views of the wrecked exterior and interior of the church. A West German flag draped over an interior balcony. Sign outside the church door indicates "Entrance to the Exhibition" (Eingang zur Ausstellung). A Germany girl selling trinkets at a market cart. German boys and girls in a market square and fair area, possibly Romerberg. Correspondents approach a booth selling cigars and cigarettes. More partially destroyed buildings in Frankfurt. Correspondents boarding a plane at Rhein Main Airbase. View of the airport terminal. Sign on a building reads 'Rhein Main Base Operations. Elev 358'. The correspondents boarding the American Overseas Airlines aircraft, and seated inside the aircraft. Aerial view of the German countryside below. Passengers sleep and relax aboard the airborne aircraft.

Date: 1949, June
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022072
U.S. soldiers of the 69th Infantry Division patrol Leipzig, Germany and fire at remaining Germans offering resistance, near end of World War II in Europe.

As film starts, German civilians are seen running along a street in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. There is no sign of any war damage in this particular area. Next, a young man with an injured arm is helped up from the pavement by German civilians and U.S. Army soldier of the occupying 69th Infantry Division. One of the civilians helps the young man bandage his arm. A group of U.S. Army troops gather around two medics tending to a person lying on the pavement. Scene shifts back again to the young man with the injured arm who seems unable to stand up. A U.S. Army soldier re-bandages his arm. View from a vehicle driving along a street, passing American infantry walking along a sidewalk, past others sitting against buildings. Several U.S. Sherman tanks are gathered along with American infantrymen, in a square in the city. The tank crews fire machine guns and their tank guns as the infantrymen fire their rifles at remaining German resisters and snipers (As film starts, German civilians are seen running along a street in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War II in Europe. There is no sign of any war damage. Next, a young man with an injured arm is helped up from the pavement by German civilians and U.S. Army soldier. One of the civilians helps him bandage his arm. A group of U.S. Army troops gather around two medics tending to a person lying on the pavement. Scene shifts back again to the Young man with the injured arm who seems unable to stand up. A U.S. Army soldier re-bandages his arm. View from a vehicle driving along a street, passing American infantry walking along a sidewalk, past others sitting against buildings. Several U.S. Sherman tanks are gathered along with American infantrymen, in a square in the city. The tank crews fire machine guns and their tank guns as the infantrymen fire their rifles at German resisters and snipers (unseen). View from moving vehicle of civilians standing on sidewalk and street with some rubble on it. They wave white cloths and some smile. More views of American infantry patrolling a sidewalk and street with a Sherman tank in the background. A man waving a white cloth crosses a square toward the camera. A pair of Sherman tanks move on a street toward the camera. More brief views of infantry patrolling and civilians with anything white they can wave. A pair of Sherman tanks move slowly on a street toward the camera, past more German civilians waving makeshift white flags. View from moving vehicle of civilians standing on sidewalk and street with some rubble on it. They wave white cloths and some smile. More views of American infantry patrolling a sidewalk and street with a Sherman tank in the background. A man waving a white cloth crosses a square toward the camera. A pair of Sherman tanks move on a street toward the camera. More brief views of infantry patrolling and civilians with anything white they can wave. A pair of Sherman tanks move slowly on a street toward the camera, past more German civilians waving makeshift white flags.

Date: 1945, April 23
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023567
U.S. Army campaign leading to capture of Cologne, Germany, in World War II

U.S. troops huddle together on Sherman tanks late in World War 2 in Europe. U.S. Infantry and tanks moving across open fields. View from cottage window of American infantrymen swarming across a field. U.S. tanks and infantry entering outskirts of Cologne, Germany. One soldier plays a French horn, as he marches into town. Several German civilians walking together. German soldier POWs (prisoners of war) being herded under guard of American Army forces. German civilian refugees walking on a road. Graffiti scrawled on wall reads "Hitler ist Kaput". Numerous trucks filled with German prisoners of war. Civilians watching as U.S. Army M10 tank destroyers move into town towing 155mm long tom guns. Amusing graffiti by U.S. troops reads, "I'll walk Cologne" with arrow pointing (alluding to popular song, "I'll Walk Alone.") U.S. troops loading and firing 155 mm long tom guns. Civilians holding their ears, as they watch. U.S. troops entering center of Cologne, Germany. Towers of Cologne Cathedral visible in background. U.S. infantry firing from behind pile of rubble. Tanks rumble through streets of Cologne. House to house fighting. U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division tanks in streets of Cologne, and soldiers with small arms firing at buildings in clearing operations from building to building. A German soldier emerges from building with hands held up in surrender. Tank firing causes part of a building to collapse. Infantry moving along roadway with Cathedral visible in near background. City buildings of Cologne seen destroyed with rubble everywhere. German Mark V Panther tank is hit by fire from U.S. Army gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in a M-26 series Pershing tank (a T26E3) with a 90mm gun, at position at the An den Dominikanern and Marzellenstraße crossroads. German Army soldiers jump from the Panther tank. The Panther Tank is hit again from the American Pershing tank, and goes up in flames and smoke. View from wreckage of the Cologne Cathedral. Bridge across the Rhein (Rhine) River. U.S. forces moving across the bridge. A sign posted on bridge pillar reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet, COURTESY OF 9TH ARMD DIV." View from vehicle crossing the bridge. U.S. medics treating casualties in wooded area.

Date: 1945, March 6
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024448
Communs of New Palace in Potsdam, Germany.

The Communs of the New Palace (Neues Palais Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany. View of the colonnade connecting the two communs (now housing the University of Potsdam). Statuary obelisks at entrance in front of the communs. Dome of the New Palace from the west side. Other building of Communs. Statues and figures seen on pillars.

Date: 1923
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025860
People walk by monuments in Berlin, Germany.

View of a fountain in front of the Berlin Cathedral. People stand in front of the City Palace of Berlin (the Stadtschloss Berliner, Schloßpl. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany). An equestrian statue of a German emperor near the Berlin Cathedral or Unter den Linden. People walk on a road. People walk by sculptures besides the road. The National Gallery of Berlin (Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany). People walk on the sideways near the Nationalgalerie.

Date: 1914
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025894
War machinery prepared in Canadian factories. Adolf Hitler's army parades honoring his 50th birthday in Berlin, Germany.

Machine power in Canada and Germany in World War 2. Canadian Industry workers walk into a war production plant punching time cards as they enter. Men welding. Steel worker checking heat of hot steel with temperature-reading glasses. Workers in Canadian factory prepare machinery for war. 20th April 1939: Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany reviews German army in parade on his 50th birthday (Narrator incorrectly states the year as 1938, but Hitler's 50th birthday was in 1939 and these images are from the 1939 parade). Heavy breakthrough tanks roll by, followed by Army division assault tanks. Motorized troops march followed by Infantry and then parachute troops. Stuka Dive bombers fly overhead with Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule) in the foreground. Hitler and others watch the flight.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026256