Soviet and British officials hold discussions at the border between Russian and British zones of occupation in Germany, following World War II. Prisoners to be repatriated to the Soviet zone aboard several police vans. A prisoner displays a sandwich from the barred windows of a van. A guard raises the barricades on the British side and the vans proceed across a bridge into the Soviet zone.
Refugees being housed, trained and taught in a factory in Europe, likely Germany. Aerial view of the factory and nearby apartment buildings. Clothes drying on line outside apartment building. A boy stands near tilted gas lamp post and a woman enters the building. Inside, the apartments are divided into tiny cubicles separated by hanging blankets. A woman holding a baby tends to a small stove with pot on top. A man and his wife, holding a baby in a small cubicle. The woman smiles and closes their blanket curtain. Refugee trainees work on machinery and equipment. A machinist working on a lathe, with sign on wall behind him that says something in German about language lessons. Children in an English class. The teacher writes in English on blackboard.
German forces evacuating German civilians from the Eastern Front during World War 2. Baltic Sea convoy officers assist in the evacuation of German civilians from the eastern front, where they are threatened by advancing Soviet forces. German civilian refugees, mostly women, board a ship. Girls talk aboard and a mother feeds her child on the ship. Convoy of warships escorting transports back to Germany.
Lucky Hofmaier walks on his hands in Germany as people look on. He is on his way from Rosenberg to Rome and aims to reach Rome in 38 days.
Kaiser Wilhelm II is seen looking through a telescope on the deck of his namesake pre-dreadnought warship (Linienschiff) the S.M. Wilhelm II, of the Imperial Germany Navy, circa 1912. Next to him is a Korvettenkapitän (three stripes insignia) who points out something to the Kaiser. The ship's captain (kapitän zur See) smiles for the camera as he leans over a railing while holding a spyglass (telescope). Smaller boats are seen anchored in a bay, in the background.
Germany Air Force preparing for the invasion of Poland. German soldiers load bombs on a Stuka Ju-87 dive bomber and camouflage it. Number of German Dornier Do 217 bomber aircraft parked on field. Soldiers inspect bombs lined up on the ground. They prepare machine gun ammunition for aircraft. Bombs loaded under aircraft wing. Aircraft are refueled. Troops rest with the camouflaged German aircraft parked in the background.
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