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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220470-67
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: Germany,USA
Location: Berlin,Buchenwald,Elbe,Hamburg
TC Begins: 06:27:11
TC Ends: 06:31:03
Duration: 00:03:52
WWII - 1945, Germany: Destroyed Cities & Elbe Bridge; Concentration Camp; Plundered Art & Loot Intertitle: Germany In Defeat - Berlin Today. 06:27:20 Allied officers inspect ruins of Berlin. Pan extreme devastation. Wrecked Adlon Hotel. Wrecked Reichstag building. 06:27:38 Intertitle: Hamburg A Shell. Aerials over air raid devastated burned out Hamburg buildings. 06:28:02 Intertitle: Wehrmacht’s End, Royal Tiger Tanks of German army arrive to surrender, parked & crews out. Crews led into camp as POWs. LS Prisoner of War camp in Ruhr countryside w/ tens of thousands of men. 06:28:34 Intertitle: Flight Over Elbe. 06:28:37 German civilians make dangerous crossing of Elbe climbing over collapsed bridge destroyed by Wehrmacht - fleeing Russian advance. Refugees w/ bags & belongings. GOOD. 06:29:17 Intertitle: Victims of Nazis. Polish Jews from Buchenwald found in mass grave near Nuremberg. Local civilians including women & children / boys carry the corpses in coffins. 06:29:42 Polish-American soldier crying (narrator says his father was one of the victims). Procession w/ corpses thru town as people watch. Funeral service w/ local civilians made to attend. 06:30:11 Intertitle: Hidden Treasure. US troops crawl thru hole in wall of treasure vault in salt mine; carry box & stacks of bundled currency. Man inspecting; CU Labeled Reichsbank bag. 06:30:35 Soldier opens suitcase w/ silverware & ??. Plundered Nazi loot; Rows of paintings shown. 06:30:57 Man pulls out bars of gold bullion from bags. WW2; 1940s; War Aftermath; Art Treasures; Discoveries;