Men and women in bathing suits on the shore of the River Vltava in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A few women sunbathing on the shore of River Vltava. Boats in the river. Czech and Russian flags on poles. Men and women on a bridge across the river. Men, women and children swimming in the river. Two men and a woman playing cards seated at a table on the shore. Close up view of a prisoner number tattoo on a woman's arm who is a Jewish survivor from Auschwitz Concentration camp in World War 2. The woman and the men playing cards. Several men and women behind them. A few men watch them play.
Wrecked buildings in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Church of Our Lady before Týn (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Staré Město, Czechia). Wrecked buildings beside the church. Several men and women in front of the church. The Jan Hus Monument (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Staré Město, Czechia) at Old Town Square. The Church of Týn and a scaffolding for rebuilding in the foreground. The ruins of the Town Hall building following bombing in World War 2. Germans cleaning the ruins and rubble of the building. German prisoners walk past the damaged building. A signboard among the ruins indicating the direction of Dresden. Germans cleaning the ruins of damaged houses. German men and women cleaning up the remains of the railway station of Cheb at the border. A group of German women cleaning the ruins. German workers on top of a heap of bricks.
Russian officers and soldiers at Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary in Czechoslovakia, a year after the end of World War II. The buildings in the city. A huge building in the city. The building of Grand Hotel Pupp (Mírové nám. 2, 360 01 Karlovy Vary, Czechia) in Karlovy Vary. The Soviet officers and soldiers, and customers in the front of the hotel. A man accompanies a few children. The officers and soldiers with their water ration. Several men and women with the officers. The customers, the officers and soldiers of the Red Army moving in a queue and taking their water ration. A girl distributing ration is sitting inside an enclosure. The officers taking the water ration from the girl. The customers, Russian officers and soldiers drinking water and walking along the front part of the hotel.
Activities of German citizens on streets in Wiesbaden, Germany. People lined up in front of a food store during time of shortages and rationing a year after World War 2 ended. German children sit on a footpath. View of buildings near the streets. Some young boys and girls sit and others play on the streets.
Activities at a slaughterhouse in Germany. The interior of the slaughterhouse. Men wield sharp knives to butcher and cut meat chunks. Butchered meat chunks hanging from the ceiling.
Street scenes of Frankfurt am Main during post World War II period of Allied occupation. (Opening slate refers to "food," because this was a period of severe food shortage throughout Germany.) German citizens are going about their daily activities. A truck and a car move along the street. Two military policemen walk together along a sidewalk. (They are Americans, because Frankfurt was in the U.S. zone of occupation.) Local people pay little attention to them and they, in turn, do not interact with the citizenry. Scene shifts completely to the City of Heidelberg,on the Neckar River, as viewed from left of the funicular station on the Kaiserstuhl. The camera zooms in slightly, to the area of the old Neckar bridge and the mountain slope leading to the Heidelberg Castle. It then pans from the left across the Kaiserstuhl slope, back again to the earlier views.
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