Cheers and Mourns
The new cemetery at Belsen, Germany on March 28, 1946, where 13,000 people who died after Belsen Concentration Camp was liberated, are buried.
Not only did Germany cheer for the war being over, but they also had to mourn for the millions of lives that were lost during the war, in the concentration camps and on the the battle fields.
Not only did Germany cheer for the war being over, but they also had to mourn for the millions of lives that were lost during the war, in the concentration camps and on the the battle fields.
Orphan Children
Some of Poland's thousands of war orphans at the Catholic Orphanage in Lublin, on September 11, 1946, where they are being cared for by the Polish Red Cross. Most of the clothing, as well as vitamins and medicines, are provided by the American Red Cross.
Children all around Germany, not only in Lublin, but in other regions as well suffered loses of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, so on and so on. And left to fend for themselves in orphanages with thousands of other children that were unknown to them.
Children all around Germany, not only in Lublin, but in other regions as well suffered loses of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, so on and so on. And left to fend for themselves in orphanages with thousands of other children that were unknown to them.
Germany's Own Trouble
The scene in Berlin's Republic Square, before the ruined Reichstag Building, on September 9, 1948, as Anti-Communists, estimated at a quarter of a million, scream their opposition to Communism. At the time, the Soviet Union was enforcing the Berlin Blockade, blocking Allied access to the parts of Berlin under Allied control. In response, Allies began the Berlin Airlift until the Soviets lifted the blockade in 1949, and East Germany and West Germany were established. When the meeting pictured here broke up, a series of incidents between Anti-Red Germans and Soviet troops brought tension to a fever pitch as shootings took place, resulting in the deaths of two Germans.
While the war went on, Germany had issues within its own country not having to do with the war, causing even more stress and impact in German citizens every day lives.
While the war went on, Germany had issues within its own country not having to do with the war, causing even more stress and impact in German citizens every day lives.
Women Clean Up
This 1945 photo shows German women clearing up the debris on Berlin's Tauentzienstrasse, with the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Church in the background. The absence of able bodied men meant that the responsibility for clearing the wreckage fell mainly to civilian women, which were called "Truemmerfrauen," or rubble ladies. The signs on the left mark the border between the British-occupied sector and the U.S. sector of the city.