Production rooms of various local companies: Victor Rehm (costume jewelry parts), Hermann Becker (watch cases), Paul Raff (watch case assembly), Porta - Uhrenrohwerke (reassembly), Laco (semi-automati...
Finance minister Maurice Petsche calls on the French to purchase government bonds for the country's reconstruction and for facilities. He symbolically grants one bond share to French president Vincent...
The 30 November 1952 elections in Saarland have resulted in a victory for the party in favour of a regime marked by pro-European autonomy and unity with France. Saarland is presented as a mining count...
Opening of Maréchal Pétain's trial on 23 July 1945 in the Paris High Courts of Justice. Retrospective pictures of the return of Pétain to France, his captivity in Montrouge and the opening of the t...
The film depicts a six-year period under the Nazi oppression in the city of Zlin. It displays bilingual signs, a lack of food and petrol. People are preparing for and protecting from bombing, they are...
Recruitment in construction and for work in reopened brickyards after the war is presented through a contrast of scenes with lazy workers and those who are aware of the benefits of the work for their ...
4012 - Les Flandres - Inondées (Belgique)
Le Vieil-Armand - côte allemand (Hartmannswillerkopf, Vosges, Haut-Rhin)
1426 - Verdun - Fort de Tavannes (Département Meuse, Lorraine)
1399 - Bois-le-Prêtre - Observatoire (Priesterwald, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine)
Mont Haut - Cimetière (Département Marne)
4209 - Verdun - Tunnel á Tavannes (Département Meuse, Lorraine)
1416 - Releve des morts
1470 - Avant l'assaut á Ville-sur-Tourbe (Département Marne, Champagne-Ardenne)
A film depicts a national aid campaign supporting a development of Slovakia as a rural and more traditionally oriented part of Czechoslovakia. It puts into contrast an industrial Czech land and a folk...
A documentary film comparing current / everyday and historical / noble aspects of Prague.
Around the Blaubach and the Waidmarkt, the war damage is still clearly visible in Cologne's Südstadt. Houses lie in ruins while people try to go about their regular lives in the post-war period. View...
The city of Dresden was bombed by the Allies during the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. Canadian army captures Kleve on February 26th.
To manage the increase in the number of school children and students, classrooms in prefabricated materials have been installed in schools and colleges which have become too cramped.
Reconstruction activities in Heilbronn with focus on streets and squares (Part 1): Detailed footage from the years 1946-1953; in the early footage, mainly ruins and fallow land, then increasingly rede...
Based on ancient medicine's belief that a good life depends on good health, the film attempts to take stock of the state of health in post-war Europe and the successes that have been achieved in disea...
Displaced children in post-war Europe are eventually brought to Palestine. (Source: Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
Not only in contrast to an untroubled childhood in America but even in co...