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Scattered waste of demolished buildings and damaged buildings after United States Army enters Leipzig at end of World War 2

United States Army enters the city of Leipzig in Germany during the World War II. Ruins of buildings destroyed during bombardment and artillery firing during the war. Scattered wastes of demolished buildings, bricks and dust in stack block the roads. A women passes from nearby a ruined building. Elevator of a building stands even after rest of building is demolished.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036086
Dead bodies of prisoners at the Leipzig concentration camp killed by the Germans during World War II.

Leipzig concentration camp of the Nazi Germans during World War II. Surviving inmates of the camp talk to Allied military soldiers. Dead bodies of prisoners shot by guards. Dead bodies of prisoners burnt alive. Dead bodies of those who managed to escape the burning chamber and were thrown into barb wires carrying current. German civilians carrying Holy Cross and shovels, moving for the burial of the dead by the orders of Allied military commanders. Russian women freed from a camp, watch from outside the camp.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036161
Magdeburg is destroyed by dive bombers of the U.S. Tactical Air Forces and U.S. troops parade in Germany (WW2)

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.

Date: 1945, May 10
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045091
World War II Damage to Reich Air Ministry building, Berlin, Germany

Early post-World War 2 views of damage to the German Air Ministry building (Detlev-Rohwedder Haus), Located on Wilhelmstrasse at the intersection with Leipziger Strasse, in Berlin, Germany. Opening scene shows large statue of eagle surmounting an enwreathed swastika. Scene shifts to Wilhelmstrasse, near gate to courtyard at center of the building. Gate is flanked by two eagle statues on pillars. There are pedestrians on the street and some cyclists, but no motor vehicles. Rubble lines the street, and one gaping hole is shown in the side of the building. All the windows have been blown out, and one wing is missing from an eagle statue. Closer view of the courtyard and eagle-flanked gate. Another heavily damaged area of the building showing section of exterior walls collaped revealing structural damage inside. Building entrance with "Heil Hitler" in an embossed relief stone decoration over the door.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069002
Concentration camp devastation scenes at many German camps including Hadamar, Landsberg, and Bergen-Belsen camps after liberation

Various concentration camps after liberation in Germany during World War 2. A few U.S. officials interrogate the commander and chief medical officer at the Hadamar Mental facility. Evidence of patient abuse, experiments, and extermination is reviewed. The bodies of the victims of the murder. The body of a woman. Soldiers carry bodies and place them on the ground. The bodies of prisoners who were starved to death and those tortured to death. Bodies piled up near a building. Narrator accounts and scenes show murdered prisoners at many camps. The bodies of prisoners in Landsberg Concentration Camp. The dead bodies of prisoners in various concentration camps who were killed by burning, shooting, starvation or poison gas. The dead body of a mature human infant embyro. The dead bodies of prisoners who were shot or starved to death in concentration camps including Landsberg, Dachau, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, Leipzig, Auschwitz. Piles of dead prisoners who were burnt to death by high voltage wires. A few women are seen who survived the torture in the camps.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054783
Views of the Autobahn in Germany and of various cities connected by it

Film opens showing German Autobahn highway as viewed from a moving car. Automobile wheel wells and tires seen as cars move along the highway. Cars seen range from the most modest to the grandest. Overlay identifies Leipzig and shows Der Hauptbahnhof (central train station) in Leipzig, which was the largest in Europe at the time. Roadway passing it contains all kinds of vehicles, including a tram line. Next, the city of Dresden is identified with an overlay. Der Dresdner Zwinger – Palace Of The Elbe is seen with numerous fountains. People are relaxing on stone benches. The city of Breslau is featured next. Film shows churches near the Oder River. The city of Stettin is then seen. Focus is on Waly Chrobrego (Ramparts of the Brave), named after Polish King Boleslaw I Chrobry (11th c.). Shown is a beautiful promenade located on the bank of western branch of the Odra River. It is also known as Hakenterrasse "Terrace of Haken" named after mayor of Szczecin in years 1878-1907. A motor yacht is parked at the river front. Scene shifts back to the Autobahn, again, as a mercedes benz car is photographed heading toward the camera. A stone wall with "Berlin" and it's "coat of arms," engraved on it, introduces views of that city. Aerial View of Unter den Linden showing the Palace Bridge crossing the Spee River and wooded area of the Lustgarten to the right. Across the bridge to the left is the Zeughaus ( Arsenal) the oldest building on Unter den Linden. The airborne camera pans over the central area of Berlin. Then, suddenly, a closeup of the Autobahn is seen from a car riding on it. Views from a high speed automobile, racing along an essentially empty highway. Isolated image of a Nazi monument containing an Eagle atop a wreath containing a swastika. View from low flying airplane of vehicles traveling on the autobahn

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063405