In Berlin, at the end of World War 2, in Europe, a large group of ordinary people gather at a hill of debris where a building once stood. Men and Women use shovels to dig dirt from sidewalk and place it in buckets, that others pass up the hill, in a bucket brigade. Closeup of people filling the buckets at the base of the pile of debris. The bucket brigade consists mostly of women. They transfer the filled buckets up the hill and empty ones down via a separate group of volunteers. The buckets are emptied at the top of the heap. Some women transfer large fragments of concrete to one another. The entire project seems intended to clear more space in the sidewalks and streets. View from a high point reveals skeletons of tall buildings and other groups doing similar work to clear rubble from the city walks and roads.
At the end of World War 2, in Europe, citizens of Berlin (mostly women) cooperate in a bucket brigade to clear rubble from their walks and streets. Lacking any machinery, they use shovels to fill buckets and pass them up the hill of debris at the base of bombed out buildings. A train passes below damaged roadway where camera is located. Camera pans to the cleanup site, where dozens of people are occupied. Closup of a man using a mason's hammer to break concrete slabs so they can be moved by hand. Women inside the walls of a demolished building, where they empty the buckets and throw the concrete slabs.
Potsdam conference in Cecilienhof Palace. Marshal Georgi Zhukov and other Russian officers enter the Palace. Prime Minister Churchill and Anthony Eden arrive. Entrance of the Palace flanked by two Russian guards. Flags of US, UK and Russia on the Palace. Interiors of room show Joseph Stalin shaking hands with dignitaries as they enter room and take their places at table. Stalin, Truman and Churchill pose.
The body of a Hitler doppelganger (body double) in ruins near a bunker in Berlin. Soviet officers and cameramen take photos of the doppelganger body. The body of a Nazi officer is exposed from beneath a sheet and examined (body appears to be German General Hans Krebs).
United States infantrymen find Adolf Hitler’s former cell in Landsberg Prison during World War 2. View of Landsberg Prison from across Hindenburgring street (Hindenburgring 12 · 86899 Landsberg am Lech). A United States army jeep is parked nearby. White flags of surrender from two prison windows. Wrecked barbed wire fencing flattened to ground and other ruins next to watch tower near Landsberg Prison. United States soldiers look through bedding and inspect memorabilia inside prison cell formerly belonging to Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment after the failed Beer Hall Putsch. A portrait of Adolf Hitler and a Nazi flag hang on the wall of the infamous cell. A soldier runs finger through entries in a logbook, points to portrait of Adolf Hitler and Nazi flag. A man standing outside Lansberg prison points to the window of Hitler's cell.
Cologne bankers gather for a meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Melvil O. Tuhus, head of fiscal affairs with the Cologne Allied Military government, after World War II. Lt. Colonel Tuhus speaking to the bankers inside a dilapidated room. A broken door leans on the wall. German bankers listening to Colonel Tuhus during the meeting.
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