A short documentary about Stuttgart before, during and after the war. The opening credits list a narrator, but the sound track appears to be lost. The camera portrays some of Stuttgarts architectural ...
The film is part of a series of six films entitled The Changing Face of Europe. Each film deals with a different economic or social issue. This production is devoted to housing. © 2002 Linda R. Chris...
A film about the badly damaged city of Hamburg, which is trying to rebuild its port with the help of the Marshall Plan and regain its pre-war role as a city of shipyards. A film in the "Strength for t...
A stroll in the surroundings of the Cologne Cathedral leads through residential areas in ruins. The cathedral is less destroyed and appears as an impressive sight.
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...
Footage of postwar life in Europe: the streets of Munich in Ruin, the post-WWII displaced persons’ camps, Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, American soldiers, JDC (aka Joint) officials, Jewish r...
Looking back on the vast destruction and successful reconstruction of Heilbronn. The film uses the monument of the "Landsknecht" as an emblem for Heilbronn and presents archival images of ruins and ru...
A survey of the situation in postwar Germany, produced to raise funds in the US. The film is clearly structured: The first part demonstrates the severe damage of German cities, carefully weaving in ch...