[Two soldiers stanting a partially destroyed Krupps factory, Essen, Germany]

[Car being lowered onto deck of SS Bremen, Bremerhaven, Germany]

[Helene Mayer with her father, Dr. Ludwig Mayer, Offenbach, Germany]

[Three men in lift at boat lift during construction, Niederfinow, Germany]

[Man looking up at boat lift under construction, Niederfinow, Germany]

Coal Miners

[Photomaton studio, Berlin]

[Man in front of a Bessmer converter, Saarland]

[A woman looking through at the Russian Zone through a telescope, Travamunde, Germany]

[The Siegestor, partially destroyed, with political posters on the broken pieces, Munich, Germany]

[Woman carries a pail down steps in a garden amid the ruins, Frankfurt, Germany]

[American paratroopers who had crash-landed in gliders, near Wesel, Germany]

[German farm couple seeking refuge from the fighting, near Wesel, Germany]

[German farm family seeking refuge from the fighting, near Wesel, Germany]

[German soldiers, captured by American forces, sitting on ground, near Wesel, Germany]

[Female prostitute standing near the partially destroyed Krupp factory, Essen, Germany]

[Female prostitute standing near the partially destroyed Krupp factory, Essen, Germany]

[Children at the Munich Zoo with Adolf, the parrot that says "Heil Hitler!", Munich, Germany]

[Young soldier with a gun sitting on the grass on the Siegfried Line, near Aachen, Germany]

[A fruit and vegitable shop built of the ruins of other buildings, Hamburg, Germany]

[Man sitting on steel beam of boat lift under construction, Niederfinow, Germany]

[Factory workers melting steel in Bessemer converter, Saarland]

[East German soldier Hans Conrad Schumann jumping barbed wire barricade to freedom as he defects from East Berlin]

[The first Rosh Hashanah service held in the city since 1938, Fraenkelufer Synagogue, Berlin]