Post-war Germany (1945-1948)

People disembarking from train cars at one of the stations during the re-evacuation in West Germany, children on the platform.

Bread being handed out at the station.

A girl's face.

Children sitting on a sack.

Children at the fence of a temporary camp for displaced persons, a panorama of a wire fence with laundry hanging on it.

A man reading a newspaper, sitting on a sack of things.

A train with German prisoners of war returning home passes through one of the stations.

German soldiers in a train car.

The inscription "Anti-fascists" in German on the wall of the train car.

German soldiers returning home, on the door of a freight car.

Meeting of liberated German prisoners of war by their relatives at the exit from the camp gates.

Germans reading newspapers.

View of part of the station in Berlin.

Refugees returning home at railway stations waiting for trains.

Faces of refugees sitting on things.

A disabled soldier begs for alms.

Refugees at one of the stations.

A train passes, people ride on the roofs of the cars and on the platforms.

People ride standing on the steps of the cars of a passing passenger train.

A worker knocks a swastika off a wall with a hammer and chisel.

Nazi eagles on the balcony railings of one of the buildings.

A worker finishes knocking down a swastika.

A broken German anti-aircraft gun with an inscription in German: "Interest on your deposits".

A worker knocks a swastika off a stone railing with a jackhammer.

The fall of a knocked-down stone pillar with a swastika and a stone Nazi eagle.

American sappers install explosives on a stone eagle with a swastika, taken to a testing ground for detonation.

The sappers cover their ears.

An attempt to detonate a sculpture of an eagle with a swastika, the eagle remains intact.

Planting more explosives.

Destruction of an eagle with Nazi symbols by an explosion.

View of a half-ruined house, people on the second floor in an apartment without a wall.

The owners of one of the apartments are repairing the balcony.

Men exit the building led by an accordionist.

A horse-drawn passenger omnibus on a street in West Berlin, overtaken by a cyclist.

Panorama of the construction of village houses in West Germany.

Repair of agricultural equipment.

Panorama of part of the destroyed workshop of one of the industrial enterprises (above), the beginning of restoration work.

Workers tidy up one of the factory workshops.

Workers push a railway platform with scrap metal in front of them.

View of one of the factory workshops during restoration work (above).

Production processes in the restored foundry, steelmakers at work.

Faces of German workers and engineers.