A victory celebration in Wiesbaden Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Mostly Russian Displaced Persons (DPs) carrying Russian flags gather in a street in Wiesbaden, Germany to celebrate the Allied victory over Germany. A band plays at the center of the people as men stand around. Russian women march. (See also prior clip clarifying April date, despite slate in this clip stating February.)
Exercise Cirrus, an air exercise for the Allied air forces in Central Europe, that ran concurrently , part of the time, with Exercise Jupiter, a three-day, French-directed war game involving Allied forces in Europe (principally Germany). A band and honor guard are seen prepared for the arrival of senior air commanders at Wiesbaden Air Force Base, West Germany, involved in Exercise Cirrus. Glimpse of C-47 aircraft lined up on the field. A United States Air Force C-54 transport aircraft taxis into the airfield ramp with engines one and four shut down. A North American T-6 Texan training aircraft is seen in the background. The C-54 circles to where a greeting committee of Allied Air Force officers is standing. Closeup of the aircraft door being opened and a rolling stairs being placed at the doorway. Inside of door displays insignia of States Air Forces Europe (USAFE). Exiting the aircraft is Lieutenant General Lauris Norstad, commander in chief, of USAFE, with headquarters at Wiesbaden, Germany. (On April 2, 1951 he assumed additional duty as commanding general of the Allied Air Forces in Central Europe under the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe.) He is accompanied by General Bjarne Øen, Chief of the Norwegian Air Force. As they descend the stairs, they are greeted by a group of officers including: Major General Truman H Landan, Deputy Commanding Officer, USAFE ( United states Air force in Europe ), Lieutenant General Robert W Harper, Commander, U.S. Air Force Air Training Command, Colonel Rich, chief of Staff 12th Air Force and Colonel Roberts, Commanding Officer Wiesbaden Air Force Base. After mingling and conversing, Generals Norstad and Oen and their escorts exchange salutes with the color guard. A car arrives and Norstad and Oen step into it and and drive away.
An Allied victory celebration in Wiesbaden, Germany near the end of World War II in Europe. Displaced Persons -- men and women -- carrying Russian flags march on a street in Wiesbaden, Germany to celebrate victory over German forces. Displaced persons carrying a placard of Stalin march past a building in the background.
German boys outdoors in Wiesbaden, Germany, as World War 2 is coming to an end. Opening scene shows two German boys digging earth with shovels on the lawn at Reisinger Fountain Park (Reisinger-anlagen, 65185 Wiesbaden, Hesse Germany), as they prepare to plant new shrubs and trees, that are seen on a truck bed in the background. Closeup of one boy shoveling. Scene shifts to a pond in the park, where German children are punting with poles as they balance on wooden floats. Change of scene shows several boys in closeup on a park lawn, followed by views back at the pond where one boy is punting on a raft. Another, who is wading, stops to pose for the camera. Meanwhile, back on the lawn a group of boys huddles together to pose for the camera.
Tourist destinations and architecture in Germany, shortly before World War 2. Kurhaus hall of Wiesbaden seen. A fountain in front of the hall. People walk on a street. People at a healing spring, at spa houses and health resorts. Views of people enjoying spa treatments and thermal baths at the Kaiser Friedrich Therme in the Kurhaus hall. An attendant directs a spray of water at a man in a bathing suit, and then wraps a blanket around the man laying on a massage table. A woman is seen inside some kind of healing or spa treatment contraption with only her head sticking out of the top. An attendant assists her after the machine is opened and she exits. (possibly lightbulbs seen in the machine implying some kind of light or heat treatment). People at the Bad Homburg spa. A mineral water spring in Kurhaus. Other scenes of wildlife and recreation in Wiesbaden: Horses and deer in a field. A man feeds the deer. Spectators watch a tennis match. Men shoot rifles in a match. Buildings and trees in the background.
Germany ten years after World War II. A steam locomotive moving along track near Dyckerhoff cement company plant in Wiesbaden, Germany. The locomotive emits black smoke. The cement factory is seen in the left rear background.
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