American Occupation Zone in Germany (1945)

Young men in shorts walk across a square in the Western Sector of Berlin in the summer of 1945, two cyclists ride along the edge of the square.

American military trucks with soldiers in the back drive along the street, passers-by cross the street.

Two young men in shorts walk across the square.

A monument to Bismarck in the Western Sector of Berlin next to a dilapidated building.

A sheet of paper with the inscription "The Nazis are gone" in English, glued to the statue of Bismarck.

View of the upper part of the Bismarck statue with a piece of paper glued to it.

Residents of the city at the doors of the American commandant's office in April 1845, people's faces.

A woman hugs a relative she found.

A woman's face.

People at the military commandant's office ask the American military for information about missing or arrested relatives.

Women's faces.

Panorama of the area with a canal and populated areas (top).

Panorama of part of the airfield with hangars and adjacent neighborhoods (top).

Panorama of destroyed and damaged buildings in West Berlin (top).

Destruction of Wehrmacht ammunition at the firing range, shells exploding, clouds of smoke rising upward.