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Allied commander in chiefs sign the papers of partition of Germany in Berlin after world War II.

' Allied control council for Germany ' shows the taking over of the control by the Allied powers in Germany. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery gets off a plane as he arrives in Germany. Montgomery being greeted by officers and he inspects an honor guard of Soviet troops. Commander in Chiefs of various Allied armies arrive at a building on June 5th, 1945. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, French Major General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and the Soviet representative Georgy Zhukov arrive and enter the building. General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery, Zhukov and Major General Tassigny sign the documents of the partition of Germany. The Commander in Chiefs pose outside the building.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042623
Field Marshal Keitel signs the unconditional surrender act as Allies take over a ruined Germany during World War II.

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.

Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059357
Eminent prisoners including Baroness Schuschnigg, Lord Lascelles being released from a Nazi prison in the Alps in Germany.

Eminent prisoners held in Nazi German prison camps in Germany are seen being released after the Allied victory during World War II. Snow covered Alps in Germany. A villa in the mountains. Eminent prisoners released from German camps include wife of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, the Baroness Schuschnigg, industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prince Leopold of Prussia, German General Franz Halder, Anti-Nazi Pastor Martin Niemöller, Allied pilots, Lieutenant John Winant (son of American Ambassador to England), Lord George Lascelles, the nephew of King George VI, John Alexander Elphinstone, Michael Alexander, and Max de Hamel, cousin of Winston Churchill. Scene changes to Magdeburg, Germany where German General Kurt Dittmar,a Nazi radio broadcaster (Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces), together with his son, young soldier Berend Dittmar, surrenders to American soldiers of the U.S. Army 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, on April 25, 1945.

Date: 1945, May 17
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059359
Late wave of German men recruited for Volkssturm and receiving uniforms and weapons in Germany, late in World War 2.

German Army units in action in Germany in January 1945. German troops on tanks fire artillery mounted on the tanks. Smoke due to explosions. Front of a gun barrel. A German flag. Youths and old men enlist in Volkssturm, a German military group under the Nazi party, comprised largely of youth and older men. New German soldiers assembled in outdoor square salute and taking an oath. A poster depicts national sacrifices through the Volksopfer program running from 7 - 28 January, 1945. Civilians donate clothing and equipment to the Reich to aid the German war effort and to supply the Volkssturm soldiers with material. A man pulls a trolley filled with donations. German citizens form a long queue to donate surplus clothing and equipment for the war effort. Newly minted Volkssturm soldiers receive uniforms, armbands with slogan "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht", and weapons. Men take out the uniforms from a stack. They wear their uniforms. Close ups of faces of new soldiers holding rifles. Newly drafted German soldiers receive Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons and are seen marching with rifles.

Date: 1945, January
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675032094
Two soldiers arrest suspected Nazis and a woman takes firewood out of debris in Germany during World War II.

Activities of civilians in Germany during World War II. Two U.S. Army soldiers arrest two suspected Nazis. They stand and interact at the entrance gate of a building that is under guard by American forces. Scene changes to a bomb damaged Atlas relief carving on a destroyed building. Next scene is a wide view of a totally destroyed area from bombing, with the same portion of broken wall with the Atlas carving seen at center. A German woman walks through rubble and debris from bombing, carrying two stacks of broken wooden timber pieces for firewood. (Location is possibly Nuremberg. Despite film slate stating 2-24-1945, these shots appear to be more likely April or May 1945.)

Date: 1945, February 24
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056166
German surrender scenes and views from wrecked German cities at end of World War 2

Documentary titled 'Deutschland Erwache' recounts Germany's wartime experiences. Explosion seen as the Nazi Swastika emblem is blown up on top of the Zeppelintribüne (at Zeppelinfeld) at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg in 1945 by the U.S. Army. Following explosion, the pieces from the destroyed emblem fall from the sky. Montage shows: German Prisoners Of War (POWs) marching; Ratification of the German surrender documents (from surrender two days earlier at Reims) held at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany on May 9, 1945. German officers present include Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff from the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. They are seen entering room and signing documents. View of Keitel signing the surrender document. Soviet Russian General looking at surrender documents. General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and others shown in brief glimpses. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Aerial views of heavily bomb-damaged cities in Germany, including wrecked German cities of Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. View of Brandenburg gate in background and rubble of bombing in foreground as two people carry a stretcher down the street. A wrecked street sign for the Unter Den Linden lies on the ground partially covered in mud. Ground level views of smoking ruined buildings in Berlin and a few German citizens walking on the streets following Battle of Berlin. Views of dead German soldiers on a battlefield. German soldiers helping to carry and tend to wounded and bandaged German soldiers. Large group of German citizens gathered in a public square.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675050132