German military leader Hermann Goring gets birthday serenade from German military band in Munich, Germany. Exteriors of Feldherrnhalle in Munich. Buildings and square reflected in horn of tuba. Army band plays music. Little girl, holding small bouquet of blooms, puts arms out to hug Hermann Goring, who kisses her. Goering goes to microphones, and stands in front of Storm trooper Chief of Staff, Viktor Lutz, who has appointed him honorary Commander of th SA-Regiment Feldherrnhalle. Sign over banner reads 'Feldherrnhalle'. Hermann Goering stands before German officers. Storm troopers of the Regiment Feldherrnhalle are in formation. Eagle atop swastika on their unit banner. Hermann Goering and Viktor Lutze with other officers review the honor guard.Goering holds traditional right hand military salute (not Nazi salute) as he reviews the SA-Regiment Feldherrnhalle honor guard.
Arrival of displaced persons and refugees of World War 2 in New York, after the war. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. People greet relatives at the dock in New York. Two young men and a girl stand together and show the concentration camp tattoos on their arms. The tattoo numbers are A9496 on the young man with the hat, A13889 on the girl, and B3073 on the young man without a hat. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berel Gola (later called Bernard Gola) a 20 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he received the tattoo. A woman and a man holding a young girl stand. Women holding children stand by. A man holding a young child. People debarking from the ship. People crowd at the dock. They meet their relatives. People stand behind a fence. A woman greets her relative. An emotional woman cries when reunited with relatives.
Entertainment in the United States Zone in Munich, Germany. German woman read a poster. The poster advertises the performance of operetta “Die schöne Helena” (“The Beautiful Helena”) by Jacques Offenbach at the Bavarian State Theater. Advertising column (known in Germany as Litfaßsäule) on screen indicates huge variety of entertainment to German civilians. Advertisement for “roman einer Tänzerin” (“Novel of a dancer”) with German actor Conrad Veidt. Advertisement in English language of dancing lessons for occupation troops. A crowd outside cinema. A man plays mouth organ and sits on debris. People look at advertisement of a play 'On borrowed time'. Actors perform in theater.
United States Zone in Munich, Germany. Occupation forces in Germany. A German civilian with a newspaper in the pocket of his jacket. He bids farewell to a U.S. soldier. He hugs and shakes hand with the soldier. Buildings in the background. German men bid farewell to soldiers.
People gather outside the Feldherrnhalle (Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München, Germany) in Munich, Germany near the end of World War II. On the Feldherrnhalle, carefully painted in giant letters in German: "Dachau, Velden, Buchenwald - I am ashamed to be a German." A poster pasted on the wall of the hall. German civilians look at the poster with heading: "Wessen Schuld?" ("Who's to blame?" in English). Names of the worst atrocity camps- Dachau, Velden (likely Belsen), Buchenwald- chalked alongside the poster.
United States Army infantrymen in Munich, Germany during World War II. U.S. tanks and infantrymen advance along a street and pass through the Karlstor gate (Neuhauser Str., 80331 München, Germany). United States soldiers march on the street past bombed-out buildings. Rubble from Allied bombing raids seen on sides of roads. A column of infantry laden tanks moves along a street.
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