War damage in Cologne. The camera pans across ruins but also piles of rubble and largely cleared areas. The whole area appears deserted, inhabited only by a few women and children.
War destruction in Heilbronn; rubble removal; reconstruction.
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...
Heilbronn half a year after the air raid in December 1944: wartime destruction; Kilianskirche (Kilian's Church), City Hall, Historical Museum, etc.; debris removal; repair of rails; streetcar running ...
After the Second World War, trains are running again through Cologne's main station, but the war damage is still clearly visible. People enter the station via destroyed entrances at the old reception ...
A kindergarten group walks hand in hand on the sidewalk and past the camera. The kindergarten teachers make the children look into the camera. At Rathenauplatz the camera pans across destroyed houses....
Controlled demolition of the bell tower of the Heilbronn Friedenskirche (Peace Church) due to war-related damage on 25.09.1947.
Postwar Stuttgart during winter. In a first part the camera shows a snow covered square and houses and buildings heavily damaged by the war. An excavator is loading rubble on trucks. A family takes th...