Photos of women in Berlin after May 1945

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From Bundesarchiv 1948

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1946

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Was also such cultural rest in cafe "Kroll oper".

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Shovel-best the friend to german women

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Not counterfeit interest to the ally,british.

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Not counterfeit interest to the ally,british.

[Annelie]

Not counterfeit interest to the ally,british

Why should they? The Bristish were liked and were there to help,
as the Americans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMngqLdAp6M

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1946

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Not counterfeit interest to the ally,british

Why should they? The Bristish were liked and were there to help,
as the Americans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMngqLdAp6M

At what here blockade of the western Berlin?

[ghostsoldier]

Happy Trümmerfrau....



Rob

[Svetlana Karlin]

An interesting photo from http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub ... tion_id=14
Demonstration by the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) in Berlin on the Day for the Commemoration of the Victims of Fascism (September 12, 1948)

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The aerial view of the whole event in Lustgarten, East Berlin, from the same source:

30017958 Kungebung VVN Berliner Lustgarten.jpg (156.49 KiB) Viewed 2709 times

[waldzee]

Happy Trümmerfrau....



Rob

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"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German--German in my soul."
"The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. b]The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face."[/b]"I am, thank God, a Berliner."

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Rest in peace
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[panzerjd]

And for some, the war wasn't over yet.....
(From Bahm's Berlin 1945.)

I've seen this photo, very realistic and vivid. For Soviet soldiers, watchs, bicycles are as attractive as iphone, ipod today.

[Annelie]

panzerjd, I am beginning to think your a provocateur.

I've seen this photo, very realistic and vivid

do you mean realistic as in that it was not a real photo but propaganda?

[Svetlana Karlin]

Some interesting postwar Berlin footage from British Pathe:

Black markets:
- 1945, different locations - possibly Potsdamer Platz, Tiergarten, near Berliner Dom on Fisher Island(?), etc. Shown are Allied soldiers trading in the market, as well as a police raiding a black market:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/black ... -in-berlin

- 1945, British military and German police round up black marketeers in Tiergarten, including Russian soldiers:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berlins-black-market

- 1946, a police raid on a black market:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berlin-7

Refugees, displaced persons and train travel in 1945
- Berlin Nomads: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berlins-nomads

Fall of Berlin aftermath - Russian and US soldiers, trummerfrauen working under a British soldier's watch, Stalin's portrait in a street: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berlin-aftermath

Victory Parade in Berlin, 1946: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/victo ... -in-berlin

Berlin in 1947

- Street views, including a Soviet memorial: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berlin-1947-part-i
- Trotting races held by Russians, sale of German awards and medals in the black market: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berli ... tting-race
- Street scenes, fashions, shopping, trummerfrauen:http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berli ... n-post-war
- Rabbit exhibition in Zeughaus: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/rabbit-exhibition-1
- More street scenery - Kurfurstendamm, the Soviet memorial, Russian soldiers passing by, Russian officers with German girlfriends walking by, outdoor cafe in Kurfurstendamm: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/berlin-today