Germany in 1945

Description
Number ADA 10457
Collection Atelier des Archives
Title Germany in 1945
Duration 00:02:52
Date of production 1945
Keyword Displaced person
Places : Germany
Index : Train, Child, Ruin, Cannon, Reconstruction, Derailement, Station, Aerial view, American, Inmate, Prison camp
Available format HD
Sound Sonoer
Summary Scenes from Germany in 1945, following the end of the war.
Description 1945. Aerial views of a city in ruins (Berlin?). Women clearing rubble. Children playing on a gun turret. Ruins. Railway tracks running through the wreckage of a train. Twisted railway tracks. Workers repairing the railway lines. Soldiers marching with a French flag. Truck carrying men and women on its platform, flying a Greek flag. General view of a railway station. Crowd. Women and children sitting on the ground waiting. Excellent long shot of a moving train with numerous passengers clinging to the outside; some wave to the camera. Deserted city streets. Woman and children leaving a house. Medium shot of a soldier walking. Crowds and soldiers. Close-ups of German prisoner-of-war soldiers being released so that they could return to work on their farms.". Agricultural work in the fields using horse-drawn equipment.