German civilians build a barricade at a street intersection in Stuttgart, Germany during World War II. German civilians carry bricks and rubble. They build a barricade around a French machine gun position at the street intersection. Damaged buildings on either side of the streets. A French soldier directs the work of German civilians. Men walk down the streets. They pick up bricks from heaps of rubble. They level the mud around the barricade using shovels.
May Day celebrations at a prisoner of war camp in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Russian prisoners of war (POWs) hold May Day celebrations in the camp "Stalag 6" after the liberation by United States Forces. Russian soldiers carry a banner in Russian and English which reads "long live Americans which liberated us from the Nazi captivity." Portraits of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the President of the United States Harry S. Truman and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill. United States Major General Ray Edison Porter, Commanding General of the United States 75th Infantry Division ; Camp Commandant Major N. Mironof and other Russian officials on a speakers' platform. A large crowd of Russian prisoners gathered during the celebration..
May Day celebrations at prisoner of war camp "Stalag 6" in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Portraits placed at the doorway of a building. Tents at the campsite. Mountains in the background. Russian officers salute. Soldiers march past holding flags and guns. A Russian Army band plays.
May Day celebrations at prisoner of war camp "Stalag 6" in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Russian prisoners and nurses march past a review stand. A truck loaded with American ration and cigarette cartons. The ration and cigarettes are issued to the released prisoners. The prisoners carry the ration cartons.
German civilians evacuate Trier,Germany with their belongings during World War II. The civilians move with horses and oxen pulled covered wagons through streets. Women ride bicycles. A gate in the city of Trier. A sign reads Trier. Wagons pulled by horses and team of oxen. Trees on either side of the streets. A horse drawn wagon loaded with the belongings of a family. Departing Germans. A tractor pulls a wagon. A stream of civilians move with their belongings. American trucks drive past civilian wagons. The civilians cart their belongings away. German civilians stand with an ox. A wagon filled with belongings.
First meeting of the Allied Control Council in the Allied Council Authority Building in Berlin, Germany. Members seated around a meeting table in a hall talk to each other. Members of the British delegation on the meeting table read a document. British members include Lieutenant Colonel Eric Green Wood, Allied Secretary Sir William Strang, Field Marshall Bernard L Montgomery and others. Members of U.S. and Russian delegations listen to them. (World War II period).
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