This is what Defeat looks like

[70 copo]

Original color film recordings of the U.S. Army show various cities and locations in Germany after the surrender in 1945. The pictures were taken under the command of George Stevens, a Hollywood director who later became famous for movies like "A Place in the Sun" and "The Diary of Anne Frank".


0:10 Berlin, July 1945
0:33 Brandenburger Tor
2:40 Cologne, March 1945
4:09 Elbe Day: First meeting of Soviet and American troops on German soil, April 25, 1945
5:51 Berlin, Picture of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, July 1945
6:55 Munich, May 1945
7:34 Hofbräuhaus Munich
8:52 "Berghof", Obersalzberg, April 1945
9:09 German prisoners of war, May 1945
10:33 Mittelbau Dora concentration camp, April 1945
11:13 Hanseatic City of Hamburg, June 1945
12:17 Port of Hamburg
13:11 Refugees on the way to Berlin, July 1945
13:41 American Beach Club, Berlin
14:18 Potsdam Conference, August 1945
16:20 George Stevens (1904-1975)

[parkbrau]

Cool stuff! I was stationed in W. Berlin, 84-86. Wife was born and raised there as well. The best assignment of my 22 years in the USAF.

[TimG]

That's a powerful film. Germany has sure recovered.