View of wrecked vehicles in Cologne City in Germany during World War II. Destructed vehicles in lines, on both sides of the road. A jeep with two United States Army soldiers passing by. Several soldiers on the site of wrecked vehicles.
Liberated United States prisoners at Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. Repatriated American military prisoners burn buildings at the camp. The camp was overcrowded and included American fliers transferred from the Luft III aviators prison camp, who probably occupy the white tents in the field near the buildings. Several of those fliers are seen sun bathing. Huge fire and smoke seen rising from the burning buildings.
Scenes showing Cologne, Germany, near the end of World War 2, in Europe. Nearby damaged buildings seen from inside a tall building, through hole blasted its wall. Camera pans across the scene. Some rooftops seem relatively inscathed, while others are gone and buildings reduced to shells. Rubble around the remains of buildings. At left in one view, the Spires of the Cologne cathedral can be seen, briefly, silhouetted against the sky, near the Rein (Rhine) river, in the distance. Scene shifts to view from inside a tower of the cathedral. The remains of the nearby Hohenzollern Bridge, are seen with spans dropped into the Rhine River. Bombed out buildings seen very close to the cathedral. (But,there is no evidence the cathedral is damaged.) View of the Rhine River from a different vantage point looking past a gargoyle, on a cathedral parapet.
Drawings of German scientific experiment during rocket-powered missile launch in Peenemunde Germany, during World War 2. Various experimental apparatus with different diameters. Scientific equipment shows process of explosion. Explosion followed with fumes.
Survivors and emaciated bodies of prisoners at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Weimar, Germany immediately after World War II. Prison gate with sign "Jedem das seine" (To Each His Own) integrated on the iron gate. A Swiss Red Cross truck arrives at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp with aid for survivors. The survivors line up at the prison after their liberation. Allied soldiers stand around. Nationality and prison number tattooed on the stomach of inmates. Piles of dead, mutilated and emaciated bodies. Some survivors among the dead. Mutilated faces of the survivors at the camp. A truck loaded with piles of emaciated dead bodies outside a crematorium. Allied soldier show a weapon used by SS (Schutzstaffel) soldiers. Ovens inside and piles of bone ash on the floor of the crematorium.
Damaged buildings of Berlin, Germany during World War II. Ruins of Hotel Kaiserhof, the Reichstag and Adolf Hitler's Chancellery. Men find a Nazi uniform buried in the rubble. A young man standing on debris imitates Adolf Hitler. The young man does an impressive Hitler parody.
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