Photos of women in Berlin after May 1945

[Svetlana Karlin]

More from the British Pathe website.

1945, night life and leisure in Berlin: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/night-life-in-berlin

1945, relaxing in Berlin - beaches, women flirting and dancing with soldiers: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/relaxing-in-berlin

1945, more beach and nightclub scenes, Fraternising Ban On - Fraternising Ban Off http://www.britishpathe.com/video/frate ... a-fraterni

1945(?), a nightclub scene, American, British, Russian soldiers dancing with women, a female Russian soldier walks past: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/nightclub-berlin

[Annelie]

Great site thanks.

Noticed everyone is very very thin, rack of bones for most part.
And, a junger Deutsch junge selling medals for cigarrettes. How sad.

[John G.]

All "great footage/stuff", most of it "new to me".....though I've seen plenty of footage of postwar Berlin (Germany). I love the footage of the kid swapping medals for cigarettes....from an old time collector's point of view.....this is how 75% of the German stuff we all cherish was originally "liberated", durning the occupation....only 25% was literally "picked up" in battle (if that much!)....
Now he could get 3 or 4 cartons.....wholesale (adjusted for inflation!) assuming thier not "Eastern Euro. fakes...
John G.

[waldzee]

Great site thanks.

Noticed everyone is very very thin, rack of bones for most part.
And, a junger Deutsch junge selling medals for cigarrettes. How sad.

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If its any comfort, Annelie, turning out 'high quality , 'reproductions' & selling them off to the occupying forces was one of the first German & Japanese post war industries.
The town of USA, Japan saw a building boom in 1945..

[panzerjd]

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

a propaganda for which country?

I do not doubt the authenticity of the posted images. if any, it may be my mistake in writing made as none native english speaker and your misunderstanding.

[LWD]

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?

I'm not sure which photo is being discussed (looked back several pages and didn't see any posts by vikki) but it is worth noteing that being real and being propaganda are not mutually exclusive. A bit more detail and a link or description (page number for instance) would help the rest of us undersand a bit more what you are talking about.

[Annelie]

turning out 'high quality , 'reproductions' & selling them off to the occupying forces was one of the first German & Japanese post war industries

I suppose it all about survival at that time, too bad the practice of selling reproductions of the medals etc is still
going on.

[waldzee]

turning out 'high quality , 'reproductions' & selling them off to the occupying forces was one of the first German & Japanese post war industries

I suppose it all about survival at that time, too bad the practice of selling reproductions of the medals etc is still
going on.

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There you have my agreement- the late Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth's too..
Big daddy did 'conert' a lot of fake medals to obvious forgeries...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfer%27s_cross

[Svetlana Karlin]

An interesting Bundesarchiv photo: Weihnachtsmarkt in Lustgarten in Berlin, December 1945.

Berlin Lustgarten-Weihnachtsmarkt-Im Hintergrund das beschädigte Berliner Stadtschloss.jpg (33 KiB) Viewed 2082 times

[Marcus]

A post discussing the treatment of the women in Berlin after the capture was split off into a new thread at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 7&t=195535

/Marcus

[Svetlana Karlin]

New Year Party -a photo by Eva Kemlein, a Berlin photographer. Source: Bundesarchiv. Date: 1949 (doesn't say whether it's January or December!)

435px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S91511,_Neujahrsfest.jpg (58.52 KiB) Viewed 1743 times

[heidi xx]

Here is where I found this Image.

http://pinterest.com/rlasaosa/world-war-ii-germany/