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Post-WWII - 1946, Germany: Railway Stations - Deutschland heute: Bahnhoefe

Reel Number: 220886-14

Color:

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947,1940s

Country: Germany

Location: Berlin,Hamburg,Munich,Stuttgart

TC Begins: 03:22:18

TC Ends: 03:26:13

Duration: 00:03:55

Post-WWII - 1946, Germany: Railway Stations & Plaza Activity & Rebuilding Intertitle: “Deutschland heute: Bahnhoefe...” 03:22:24 Montage: LS Hamburg (?) railroad station w/ war damage; trains entering below & traffic on street in front. High Angle / HA of street plaza and people entering station, tilt up to steel trusswork of roofs behind. Interior, platforms w/ entire roof missing; people boarding passenger train cars; MS people waiting; moving thru entry to platform; MCU pushing, boarding train w/ bundles; others waiting; people sleeping on station benches; CU German sign: “mother-and-child” waiting area at Hamburg station. Salvation Army type soup kitchen & shelter w/ people & children sleeping on cots. 03:23:31 Hanging sign outside restaurant in Munich station; interior of restaurant / cafe & waitress serving family. Traffic outside station, people fight to enter tram & leaving w/ people hanging outside. People waiting on plaza (Berlin?) & on street corners. Kids play on street; prostitutes in doorway & talking at curb w/ older boys on bicycles; man walking alone past rubbled buildings; people stealing coal from train; black market dealers close to station; people pushing carts rolling on tram (?) tracks. 03:25:23 Police run past in raid on Stuttgart black market searching men & baggage dumping out packs of cigarettes; woman w/ goose in basket; patting down / frisking man & finding cigarette packs in socks. 03:25:50 Steam shovel cleaning up rubble in plaza w/ destroyed buildings in background. Railway station interior w/ dramatic light. Steam train entering station yard toward camera. 03:26:07 End title. Post-WW2; 1940s; Transportation; Destruction; Economics; Poverty; Shortages; Propaganda Newsreel Film; Industry; Rebuilding Economy; Occupied Germany;

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