keywords: wwii, world war ii, combat damage, post war germany, british zone of occupation
Synopsis: German life in the Allied Occupation Government in the British Zone of a post-war Germany divided into areas of occupation by the victorious Allied Nations. A Map of the allied zones of occupation is shown. Shows war ruins and destruction of Hamburg and other German cities. Shows Germans wandering and searching for each other and food. Children sleep amid war ruins. German civilians meeting with British military officials, shoveling war rubble, repairing power lines and buildings.
Shows living conditions for civilians in German in 1946. Putting the German people back to work to provide fuel and food. Supervision of travel on limited means of transportation. Remaking of German Police Force and providing medical services. Shows religious services, children playing, and other scenes of daily life. Returning prisoners of war receive food and clothing, are interviewed and examined by doctors, and checked for SS mark under left arm. Most are demobilized. Germans suspected of war crimes are returned to the cage.
