Post-WWII, 1945, Germany: Berchtesgaden In Ruins; Goering’s Art Collection Recovered. May45

Post-WWII, 1945, Germany: Berchtesgaden In Ruins; Goering’s Art Collection Recovered. May45 Munich, woman looks out of window, white flag below. White flags above shops w/ German signs. Pedestrians. White flag on shelled building. 13:23:15 VS bombed shell of Hitler’s Berghof chalet near Berchtesgarden; soldiers stand at picture window overlooking mountains; gutted interior. Jeep drives under wrecked entrance gateway. 13:24:32 Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring w/ Alfred Rosenberg? and unid. Nazi take seats on patio full of deckchairs, consult papers; mountains in BG; CU Kesselring smiling; group return to building. Gen. Maxwell Taylor & Colonel Ned D. Moore USAF 101st AB, Airborne Div. crest meet Col. Charles H. Chase. 13:26:03 AV bombed Berchtesgaden complex inc. ruined chalets. 13:27:14 German laborers w/ pickaxes clear debris outside ruined Berghof; MCU workers near ‘Hitler’s Home’ sign. Laborers walk up mountain road w/ shovels. USAF officer Captain Harry Anderson at desk; CU letter in German, receipt from Dr. Galerie W.A. Lus; Goering’s solid gold blotter & ink stand on desk. 13:28:39 Street sign: Berchtesgaden Postamt, building, town in BG. Civilians in line on street outside food shop. CU ‘Off Limits’ sign. EXT troops outside bunker, remove stolen paintings (including 1550 Adam & Eve oil by Franz Floris) & wooden statues from cave thru woods & load onto truck. Sign: ‘Hermann Goering’s Art Collection Through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division in Unterstein’ (sic). Hofer shows Sgt. Harold A. Way painting found in bunker including Franz Hals’ Portrait of a Priest, Rubens’ portrait of his wife & paintings by ? Van Dyke & Burgomaster Moos. INT artworks stored in USAF HQ. Troops arrive on truck, enter HQ 13:32:06 VS artwork loaded onto truck from goods train by US troops; MCU statue of Virgin Mary? Post-WW2; Nazi looted treasures; War Criminals; War Crimes; Art Theft; Repatriation; Paintings Recovered; NOTE: Partial or entire card sold at per reel rate.