Post war - Every Day life and Re­con­struc­tion in Germany

30.06.1946 - Distribution of an additional meal for school children in Berlin in July 1946.
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01.05.1945 - After the end of the war in Berlin 1945 - First encounters between occupier (Soviet soldiers) and occupied in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archive - NO WI...
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01.05.1945 - After the end of the war in Berlin 1945 - first encounters between occupiers (Soviet soldiers) and occupied in Berlin. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archive - NO WIRE SERVI...
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01.05.1945 - The fixed station clock is hung at Berlin Westkreuz station, May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archive - NO WIRE SERVICE
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01.05.1945 - Crowd at the station in Berlin Spandau, May 1945 - People head for the countryside to get food. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archive - NO WIRE SERVICE
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01.05.1945 - People return to normality in an abnormal environment - Women sell flowers in front of the ruins of houses on Memhardstrasse street near Alexanderplatz in Berlin, May 1945. Photo:...
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01.05.1945 - Street scene of Unter den Linden in Berlin, April / Mai 1945 - the traffic is controlled by hand and light. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archive - NO WIRE SERVICE
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30.11.1944 - Eine Frau zieht eine auf einem Bollerwagen sitzende Frau durch das zerstörte Frankfurt.
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22.08.1953 - Ausgabe von Spendenpaketen. 50 Blinde, Kriegsbeschädigte, Heimkehrer, Arbeitslose und Rentner erhielten im Bezirksamt Kreuzberg Spendenpakete der Care-Organisation. Bürgermeister...
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30.11.1945 - Frauen und Kinder sind auf dem Weg, um einen mit Kohle beladenen Zug zu überfallen. Der in der Nachkriegszeit in Deutschland herrschende Kohlenmangel treibt die Menschen zu verzwei...
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30.11.1945 - Frauen und Kinder laufen weg, nachdem sie einen mit Kohle beladenen Zug überfallen haben. Der in der Nachkriegszeit in Deutschland herrschende Kohlenmangel treibt die Menschen zu v...
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30.11.1999 - Hungry people, who could get hold of a place on the footboard of the train, are looking out for a police control at the arrival at a station in a small town in the Luneburg Heath....
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07.11.1947 - Das Ehepaar Haelsen (rechts und links) aus Bremen hat am 7.11.1947 des erste in Deutschland eingetroffene Baby-Care-Paket erhalten. In der Mitte das Ehepaar William Moore von der C...
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30.11.1945 - A family has barely furnished a cellar room in Frankfurt on the Main, in 1946.
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21.10.1947 - Berlin population is gleaning potatoes on a harvested field in front of Reichstag, Berlin, on 21 October 1947.
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05.04.1948 - The free field in front of Lübeck Gate is planted with lettuce on 5 April 1948.
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30.06.1945 - German men and women pulling carts with timber and bags through the destroyed city of Berlin, July 1945.
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30.11.1945 - Two men and a woman are collecting coal pieces on a road, in 1946.
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30.11.1999 - In the years after the end of the Second World War, many people are searching for something to eat in the kitchen waste of the Americans on a huge garbage dump near Ludwigsburg. Th...
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30.11.1945 - A woman is growing tomatoes for self-sufficiency, in the ruins of Frankfurt on the Main, in 1946.
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30.11.1945 - A milk seller is standing on a street in Frankfurt on the Main, in 1946, and bottles milk with a measuring cup into jugs brought by housewives.
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31.08.1945 - A German woman is weighed to determine her nutritional situation, in September 1945, in a street hospital, which was arranged by a field ambulance of the military government in Ber...
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30.11.1945 - A part of 'living culture' of the post-war era in the destroyed Frankfurt on the Main, in 1946.
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30.11.1999 - View on a row of nissen huts which have served as emergency shelter during the post-war era.
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30.11.1999 - In the yard of the elementary school in Friedenau, an additional meal is distributed to needy and malnourished school children. The additional feeding became possible by Swiss dona...
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30.11.1944 - A group of children runs after a truck with American soldiers and beg for sweets. Chocolate and especially the until then unknown chewing gum was very popular.
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30.11.1945 - Children are playing in the ruins of Hamburg. Picture from 1946. The British air attacks on Hamburg in July 1943 have turned the city into a field of rubble. 40,000 people died in...
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30.08.1946 - 08-30-1946 Post-war period - young people at the recreation center. Mabel Shannon, the education commissioner of the American military government of Greater Hesse, on a visit to t...
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21.09.1946 - Blick in den Kleinen Sitzungssaal des Rathauses in München, in dem am 21.09.1946 die erste Ziehung der Nachkriegslotterie stattfand. +++(c) dpa - Report+++ [dpabilderarchiv]
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01.01.2000 - So-called coal searchers, young and old, pick coal pieces from a slag heap, which could be used as heating fuel for the following winter. Picture from September 1948. Foto: dpa +++...
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21.08.1946 - Travelers in a railway station in Hesse. 08.21.1946.
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31.05.1946 - Firewood is being cut with a transportable sawing machine on a street in Frankfurt on the Main on 31 May 1946.
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02.09.1946 - Teenagers and children doing a circle dance on 2 September 1946 in the holiday camp of the Youth Federation "Friendship" in Rüdesheim.
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01.05.1946 - Unter freiem Himmel wurde am 01.05.1946 in Wiesbaden der Boxkampf im Schwergewicht zwischen Kurt Zoschke und Adolf Heuser (r) ausgetragen. Den Kampf über acht Runden konnte Zoschke...
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17.10.1946 - Rubble clearance on 17 October 1946 in front of Frankfurt city hall "Römer". Under the motto "Frankfurt helps itself", the citizens are required to help with the reconstruction.
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17.10.1946 - Der Frankfurter Oberbürgermeister Walter Kolb (SPD, M) geht bei der Trümmerbeseitigung mit gutem Beispiel voran, wie hier am 17.10.1946. +++(c) dpa - Report+++ [dpabilderarchiv]
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17.12.1945 - Ein Haushaltsausweis (l) und verschiedene Lebensmittelkarten herausgegeben von den Ernährungsämtern Groß-Hessen und Frankfurt am Main, aufgenommenam 17. Dezember 1945. Die Coupons,...
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02.09.1946 - Im Raum der Verteilungsstelle übergibt der Vorsitzende des Komitees für die Verteilung von Care Paketen (Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe) am 02.09.1946 einer Empfänge...
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02.09.1946 - Townsmen are transporting Care packages (Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe). The were distributed to the population for the first time on September 2, 1946 in Stuttgart...
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01.01.2000 - Women with their children in the poorly improvised apartment of a mansard on Kleine Freiheit, a street in Hamburg, in 1947. Foto: dpa +++(c) dpa - Report+++
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01.12.1946 - Germany post-war 1946. Women lean forward for coal and steal the much needed heating fuel
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01.05.1946 - A man and a women planting potatoes on the field of Berlin Tiergarten, in May 1946. In the background the Victory Column. Since the trees of Berlin Tiergarten were almost completel...
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01.09.1945 - Straßenszene mit Schlange stehenden Menschen in Berlin nach Kriegsende 1945. +++(c) dpa - Report+++ [dpabilderarchiv]
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14.02.1947 - Uniforms of the Wehrmacht are processed at home. Picture taken on 14 February 1947 in Munich. The military government provided huge amounts of uniforms of the former Wehrmacht to p...
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15.02.1947 - On 15 February 1947 several care-packages were delivered for the Opel children in Rüsselsheim. The employees of General Motors (USA) have financed the care parcels for the children...
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17.03.1947 - On 17 March 1947, the reconstruction of the historical St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt on the Main has begun. The first national meeting took place at St. Paul's Church in 1848. The...
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17.03.1947 - On 17 March 1947, the reconstruction of the historical St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt on the Main has begun. The first national meeting took place at St. Paul's Church in 1848. The...
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20.11.1945 - Gäste in einem Straßenlokal neben den Trümmern zerstörter Gebäude in Frankfurt am Main am 20.11.1945. +++(c) dpa - Report+++ [dpabilderarchiv]
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01.06.1946 - Children being fed with a warm meal, which is given by the Swedish Red Cross to about 15,000 Dortmund children daily, in June 1946, in a restaurant in Dortmund. Furthermore, German...
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01.01.2000 - Children are playing in the ruins of a destroyed building in Hamburg in 1946.+++(c) dpa - Report+++
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01.01.2000 - Children play in the ruins of a destroyed building in Hamburg (1946). +++(c) dpa - Report+++
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13.10.1948 - Männer mit einer großen Säge die Äste eines gefällten Baumes im Grunewald von Berlin am 13.10.1948. Am 13.10.1948 begann in den Straßen Berlins und in den Wäldern der Umgebung der...
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01.01.1946 - Vegetable farming in the ruins of Frankfurt 1946. A woman takes care of her small tomato plantation
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01.01.1946 - Ein kleines Idyll inmitten von Trümmern: Ein eingezäunter Gemüsegarten auf einem Trümmergrundstück umgeben von Ruinen in Frankfurt am Main, aufgeommen 1946. +++(c) dpa - Report+++...
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07.11.1949 - About 35 refugees from the Soviet zone who were not allowed to come to the Federal Republic are on their way to Bonn to protest against this decision and to receive a final permit...
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01.01.1947 - 1001150 (9002126) Nachkriegszeit - Not in Deutschland im Jahre 1947, Berlin , ein Mann zerhakt einen Baumstamm im abgeholzen Tiergarten, Hintergrund der Reichstag
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01.05.1945 - 5504709 (9002126) Deutschland, Nachkriegszeit: Trümmerfrauen in den Ruinen von Berlin, 1945.
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01.05.1945 - 5521903 (9002126) am zerstörten Potsdamer Platz im Mai 1945 . Ein Frau zieht ein Handwagen mit Habseligkeiten . Darauf sitzt ein Kind . ,
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01.05.1945 - Inhabitants of Berlin are highly interested in one of the first newspaper which was distributed in May 1945. Photo:Yevgeny Khaldei
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01.07.1945 - The inhabitants of Berlin start to clear their city of the debris after the end of World War II in July 1945. Photo:Yevgeny Khaldei
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02.05.1945 - An old woman wearing dark clothes walks past the ruins of a house in May 1945. Photo:Yevgeny Khaldei
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01.07.1945 - Life gets back to normal - inhabitants of Berlin sit in a street café at Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in summer 1945. Photo:Yevgeny Khaldei
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01.01.1949 - Berlins standing in line in front of a fish store which sells goods without food stamps, in 1949, Berlin.
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01.05.1945 - A crowd waits for the distribution of food in Berlin in May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - "Swords to Plowshares and steel helmets to spades" - Spades are made available for the reconstruction of Berlin in May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Women and men are pictured clearing the ruins in Berlin in May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Women recover furniture from the ruins of the bombed Berlin in May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.07.1946 - A street car is driving over the Sandkrugbrücke (Invalidenstrasse) for the first time since it has been repaired, in the summer of 1946. 140 of the 225 bridges of Berlin were blown...
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01.05.1945 - Symbolic grave in the ruins for Hans Kirsamer, born on 13 May 1913, missing since 29 January 1944, in Berlin, Germany, in April/May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archi...
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01.05.1945 - Street scene in Berlin at the end of the war in 1945 - a thin woman with a bowl of soup in her hands looks into the camera lens. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Soldiers hand out bread to women in Berlin, Germany, in 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Distribution of potatoes to the hungry civilians at the end of the war in 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Distribution of potatoes to the hungry civilians at the end of the war in 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Women, men, and children queue at the water pumps near the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, in April/May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Women fill potatoes into bags after they arrived by train in Berlin, Germany, at the end of the war in 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Milk is supplied to the population in Berlin, Germany, after the end of the war in 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Everyday life after the end of the war in 1945 - Living between tomato plants, fire walls and windows without glass: a flat in the Berlicher Strasse in Tempelhof. Photo: Fotoarchiv...
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01.05.1945 - Everyday life after the end of the war in 1945 - harvesting green beans in the garden in between the ruins of the city centre in Berlin. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - View of Nissen huts at the train station Hohenzollerndamm, which were erected as provisional housing for a long time in Berlin, Germany, after the end of the war in 1945. Photo: Fo...
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01.05.1945 - A family is pictured in provisional accomodation in Reichstrasse in Berlin Spandau after the end of the war in 1945. The barracks, which were used until the mid-1950ies, were calle...
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01.05.1945 - At the end of the war in Berlin in 1945 - A dead horse lying at the side of the street is cut up by men and eaten afterwards. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - After the end of the war in Berlin in 1945 - US-American soldiers distribute sweets to German children. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - The black market in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in May 1945 - the so-called "Black Exchange". In the foreground, grenade craters and destroyed trees are pictured in Tie...
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01.05.1945 - After the end of the war in 1945 - Image of a smuggler, who had transported groceries in special clothing, taken by the police. Images like these and others, which were police imag...
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01.05.1945 - End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - A Heimkehrer (homecomer) only finds the graves of her family members. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1945 - Männer und Frauen bei Enttrümmerungsarbeiten in Dresden. Aufnahmedatum unbekannt (1945-1955). Foto: Deutsche Fotothek / Richard Peter jun. - KEINE BILDFUNKVERWENDUNG -
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17.09.1945 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt zwei Männer bei der Holzbeschaffung aus Ruinen im zerstörten Dresden, aufgenommen nach 17.09.1945. Vor allem die alliier...
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01.01.1946 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt Bevölkerung beim Ziegelputzen während eines Aufbaueinsatzes in Dresden, aufgenommen um 1946. Foto: Deutsche Fotothek / R...
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17.09.1945 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt Einwohner beim Bilden von Transportketten zur Beladung von Lastkraftwagen mit Ziegeln in Dresden, aufgenommen nach 17.09...
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01.01.1949 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt eine Frau beim Schippen neben einer Muldenkipplore der "Trümmerbahn" mit dem Schriftzug "Baut auf die Stadt der Zuversic...
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01.01.1947 - Street scene in post-war Berlin during the winter of 1947.
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01.01.1948 - US soldiers dance in a bar in Frankfurt am Main in 1948.
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21.08.1946 - Mr. Barbakoff, head of the German-American commission center, watching the first exchange of cigarettes brand "Chesterfields" against a "Slip", a document which entitles to change,...
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01.01.1947 - The photo by famous photographer Richard Peter sen. shows a young man who is growing vegetables, surrounded by ruins of the city of Dresden that was massively destroyed by air raid...
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01.01.1945 - Erste Trümmerberäumung zum Passierbarmachen der Schloßstraße in Dresden, aufgenommen 1945. Vor allem die alliierten Luftangriffe vom 13. und 14. Februar 1945 führten zur weitgehend...
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26.06.1948 - Since the price for bread is high people trade bread ration cards on the black market in Berlin on 26 June 1948. A few days after the currency reform in the western part of Germany...
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30.07.1948 - The hairdressers of the west sectors are hard hit by the power cuts. There is power for only two hours per day and two hours per night during the Berlin Blockade. That is why a hai...
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01.07.1948 - A few days after the currency reform in the western part of Germany came into force on 21 June 1948 the shops present goods that long have not been seen as this fashion shop in Stu...
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23.06.1948 - People staying on line in front of a shop on 23 June 1948 that sells creme for "old money". The new Deutsche Mark in an issuing office in Frankfurt am Main. The currency reform in...
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24.06.1945 - Soviet war photographer Yevgeny Khaldei in front of ruins and a poster marking the 1st of May in destroyed Berlin in 1945. Photo:unknown
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02.07.1945 - This picture by Soviet war photographer Yevgeny Khaldei has the title "Life goes on" . It shows to civilians leading a wounded person through the ruins of Berlin in the summer of 1...
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01.01.1948 - Straßenszene an der Straße Unter den Linden / Ecke Friedrichstraße in Berlin im Jahr 1948. Auf einem Transparent steht die Losung: "Hinweg mit dem Bonner Mordregime! Zerreisst den...
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01.01.1949 - Workers receive aid packages at an issuing agency which was founded by the US American aid organization CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) in 1945. Picture taken...
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01.01.1949 - Workers are waiting for the distribution of aid packages at an issuing agency which was founded by the US American aid organization CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Eu...
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01.01.1948 - Zum "Tanz im Freien" lädt ein Schild in das Gartenlokal der Krolloper nahe Brandenburger Tor am Großen Tiergarten in Berlin ein, aufgenommen 1948. Im Hintergrund die im Zweiten Wel...
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01.01.1948 - A street scene at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, 1948. Photo: zbarchiv - NO WIRE SERVICE
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01.01.1948 - People board the line 1 streetcar in Berlin, Germany, 1948. Photo: zbarchiv - NO WIRE SERVICE
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01.01.1948 - Eine Straßenbahnschaffnerin klettert auf das Dach der Straßenbahn Linie 40 in Berlin zum Richten der entgleisten Kontaktrolle des Stangenstromabnehmers, aufgenommen 1948. Foto: zba...
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01.01.1948 - Eine Straßenbahnschaffnerin beim Richten der entgleisten Kontaktrolle des Stangenstromabnehmers auf dem Dach der Straßenbahn Linie 40 Richtung Steglitz in Berlin, aufgenommen 1948....
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01.01.1948 - Dichter Andrang herrscht zur Herbstmesse am Ring-Messehaus am Tröndlinring in Leipzig in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone, aufgenommen 1948. Foto: zbarchiv - GESPERRT FÜR BILDFUNK
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01.01.1948 - Die neue Schuhkollektion des Unternehmens Mareno wird auf der Leipziger Herbstmesse vorgestellt, aufgenommen 1948. Foto: zbarchiv - GESPERRT FÜR BILDFUNK
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01.01.1948 - Arbeiter transportieren Schutt in den im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstörten Volkspark Humboldthain in Berlin, aufgenommen um 1948. Im Hintergrund die Reste des nach Kriegsende gesprengte...
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01.01.1949 - Berlins are stading in line at a selling point for potatoes and peas which can be bought without food stamps, in 1949.
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01.01.1949 - Berlins standing in line at a selling point for potatoes and peas which can be bought without food stamps, in 1949.
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01.05.1945 - After the end of the war in 1945, a woman writes the message "We are all alive" on the wall of the Ernst Holler Kinderhutfabrik in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschi...
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01.01.1946 - A woman is pictured with her daughter eating breakfast in her "garden" near the Brandenburg Gate in Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany, in 1946. In the postwar period, the trees and bus...
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01.05.1945 - End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - Boys "examine" a shell that has not yet exploded. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Street scene in Berlin at the end of the war in May 1945 - a barrel of oil is emptied by men and women with buckets and cans. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - Street scene in Berlin after the end of the war in 1945 - refugees receive a bowl of warm soup. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - End of the war in Berlin in 1945 - Flour is loaded on a truck to be brought to bakeries at the provisions office of the Kommandantura in Wallstrasse in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Fot...
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01.05.1945 - Women fill potatoes into bags after they arrived by train in Berlin in May 1945. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.05.1945 - The civilians of Berlin return to the destroyed city with their few belongings in May 1945 after having fled from the bomb raids of the war. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Ar...
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01.05.1945 - After the end of the war in 1945 - Police photo of smuggled groceries like meat, lard, butter, and margarine. Photo: Fotoarchiv für Zeitgeschichte/Archiv
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01.01.1948 - A net with potatoes, a wallet, food ration cards, and a coupon for half a kilo of horse beef lie next to a shopping bag with a metal can in Berlin, Germany, around 1948. Photo: Fo...
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01.01.1945 - Helping children during ruins clearance work in Dresden, Germany, date unknown (1945-1955). Photo: Deutsche Fotothek / Richard Peter jun. - NO WIRE SERVICE -
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01.01.1948 - Männer bei Enttrümmerungsarbeiten mit Straßenbahn-Gütertriebwagen und Feldbahn, deren Muldenkipploren über ein provisorisch aufgeständertes Gleis in Schütthöhe gefahren werden in d...
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01.01.1946 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt hungernde Bevölkerung beim "Kartoffelstoppeln" unmittelbar nach Beendigung der Ernte am Dresdner Stadtrand, aufgenommen...
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01.01.1946 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt Frauen und Männer bei einer Mittagspause während eines Aufbaueinsatzes der Landesleitung Sachsen der SED in Dresden, auf...
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01.01.1946 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt einen Mann bei der Holzbeschaffung aus Ruinen im zerstörten Dresden, aufgenommen um 1946. Vor allem die alliierten Lufta...
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01.01.1946 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt Frauen beim Beladen von Handwagen mit Brennholz in der Umgebung von Dresden, aufgenommen um 1946. Foto: Deutsche Fotothe...
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01.01.1948 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt eine Frau bei der Aussaat von Rasen in einer neu errichteten Wohnsiedlung, aufgenommen um 1948 vermutlich im Raum Dresde...
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09.01.2017 - Ziegelfabrikation aus Trümmersplitt 1948/1949 in Hamburg. Missunde- und Augustenburger Straße für den Wohnungsbau. Arbeiter stellen Ziegel aus Trümmersplitt her. Foto: Deutsche Fot...
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01.10.1945 - Dresden-Altstadt, Große Zwingerstraße 8 nahe dem Postplatz, Eugeba-Drogerie in noch nutzbaren Erdgeschoßräumen, davor zahlreiche Angebotstafeln für nachkriegstypische Waren, aufgen...
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01.10.1945 - Dresden-Altstadt, Große Zwingerstraße 8 nahe dem Postplatz, Eugeba-Drogerie in noch nutzbaren Erdgeschoßräumen, davor zahlreiche Angebotstafeln für nachkriegstypische Waren, aufgen...
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01.07.1945 - Dresden, spielende Kinder in einem Hinterhof eines zerstörten Wohnhauses, aufgenommen im Sommer 1945. Foto: Deutsche Fotothek SLUB / Erich Höhne & Erich Pohl - KEINE BILDFUNKVERWEN...
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16.07.1947 - The 62-year-old Sophie Wanderer takes care of her "garden", on 16.07.1947 in Frankfurt am Main, a collection of old buckets, cans and other containers which she has filled with pot...
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14.06.1948 - Three employees of the transport company are waving to the passengers in a tram on june 14th in 1948 in Germany .
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25.09.1948 - A ill woman (l) is brought to the hospital with a handcart on 25.09.1948. Because of the petrol lack, many ambulances and cabs has been decommissioned, so that the peole had to hel...
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08.10.1947 - A woman in Lübeck, Germany, 8 October 1947 seems to worry about her future after exchanging valuables for a small bag of potatoes just moments before.
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13.03.1946 - Convicted black market traders are guarded by policemen while working in a ditch by the side of a road in Frankfurt, Germany, 13 March 1946.
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01.02.1946 - Despite frequent raids by the police black market trading flourishes in front of the German Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1 December 1946.
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16.09.1947 - Non professional farmers trade in their homegrown "Siedlerstolz" for tobacco at a special exchange site in Berlin, Germany, 16 September 1947. "Siedlerstolz" (Pride of the Settlers...
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12.07.1948 - A card from the federal employment office in Munich can be seen in front of an overflowing booth of a vegetable salesman at a food market in Munich, Germany, 12 July 1948. After th...
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18.06.1946 - Workers unload donated butter from a track for the German civilian population from the United States on 18th June 1946.
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01.01.2000 - Overcrowded trains, mostly filled with city folk returning from or going to the countryside to get food, were a common site in post-war Germany. (undated file photo)
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01.01.2000 - An American shows German adolescents of the post-war period how to play the US national sports baseball (archive picture of the 1940s).
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11.03.1949 - A sign on the border of district Wolfratshausen in Bavaria calls for black marketeers and hoarders to turn back, on 11th March 1949.
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01.01.2000 - View on an overcrowded train, were especially hoarders of the post-war era are trying to get in (undated photo from the 1940s).
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14.10.1948 - Many Berlins felt compelled to buy potatoes from farms from the surrounding area to increase their food ration. A crowd with potato bags in standing in front of the tram, on 14th O...
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01.01.2000 - Farmer's food, like pork in cans and glasses, was confiscated because of non-compliance with the duty, near Ludwigsburg. (Undated photo from the 1940s).
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06.01.1948 - A trading market has established on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin in the building of the former hotel "Der Fürstenhof". Berlin citizens meet at the back entrance, in the early morning...
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17.10.1946 - Lord mayor Walter Kolb (r) and two members of the city council take part in the debris clearance campaign, initiated by Kolb, on 17 October 1946, in front of Frankfurt's city hall...
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12.08.1948 - View on a large rally on Römerberg in Frankfurt on the Main on 12 August 1948. 30,000 Frankfurt citizens took part in it. In the afternoon on 12 August 1948, the working population...
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12.08.1948 - View on Römerberg in Frankfurt on the Main during a rally on 12 August 1948. About 20,000 women and men met here to protest against the price usury and the delay of the right of co...
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07.05.1947 - Workers of the shipyard Blohm und Voss during their sit-down strike on 7 May 1947 in Hamburg. The workforce of shipyard Blohm und Voss in Hamburg went on a sit-down strike on 7 May...
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01.01.1945 - Verkauf von Exemplaren der Frankfurter Rundschau im Jahre 1945 in Frankfurt am Main. Die Frankfurter Rundschau war nach der Berliner Zeitung die zweite Tageszeitung die nach dem Zw...
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01.01.2000 - US-Soldaten tanzen mit jungen Frauen in einer Bar in Frankfurt (undatiertes Archivbild aus dem 1940er Jahren).
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01.01.2000 - Eine Nonne sammelt mit Eimer und Kehrschaufel Kohlen auf, die von einem Kohlentransport gefallen sind, um diese zum Betrieb des Ofens zu nutzen (undatiertes Archivbild).
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01.01.2000 - Der 1. Vorsitzende des Ortsausschusses des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes Groß-Hamburg, Adolph Kummernuss (l), spricht am 09.05.1947 bei der Kundgebung gegen den Hunger zu den Demon...
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01.01.2000 - Children play in debris of houses destroyed in the second world war in Leipzig 1945. Photo: Voller Ernst Agency - NO WIRE SERVICE
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01.01.2000 - Inhabitants of the city Frankfurt start reconstructing the buildings in the post-war period (undated archive picture from 1945).
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01.01.2000 - Deutsche Arbeiter beim Wiederaufbau in München in der Nachkriegszeit (undatiertes Archivbild).
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17.09.1945 - Das Motiv des bekannten Fotografen Richard Peter sen. zeigt einen Oberleitungs-Bautrupp bei der Fahrleitungsmontage für die Straßenbahn mit beweglichen Arbeitsbühnen auf Kraftfahrz...
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01.01.1944 - Der Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger mit dem Dresdner Kreuzchor bei dem ersten Besuch in den Trümmern vor der ausgebrannten Kreuzkirche in Dresden, aufgenommen 1945. Foto: Deutsche...
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01.01.1946 - Konzert des Kreuzchores unter der Leitung von Rudolf Mauersberger vor der Ruine der Dresdner Frauenkirche in der Altstadt, aufgenommen um 1946. Foto: Deutsche Fotothek / Höhne und...
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26.09.1948 - Kinder spielen in den Truemmern, 1948, Leipzig, Sachsen, DDR, Deutschland, Europa Foto: our-planet.berlin/ Fotothek Mai Leipzig- KEINE BILDFUNKVERWENDUNG - | Verwendung weltweit
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26.05.1948 - Waesche trockenen zwischen den Ruinen, 1948, Leipzig, Sachsen, DDR, Deutschland, Europa Foto: our-planet.berlin/ Fotothek Mai Leipzig- KEINE BILDFUNKVERWENDUNG - | Verwendung welt...
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04.07.1947 - Truemmerziegel als Spielzeug, 1947, Leipzig, Sachsen, DDR, Deutschland, Europa Foto: our-planet.berlin/ Fotothek Mai Leipzig- KEINE BILDFUNKVERWENDUNG - | Verwendung weltweit
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26.03.1948 - Trittbrettfahrer, ueberfuellte Strassenbahn, 1948, Leipzig, Sachsen, DDR, Deutschland, Europa Foto: our-planet.berlin/ Fotothek Mai Leipzig- KEINE BILDFUNKVERWENDUNG - | Verwendun...
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17.03.1947 - On 17 March 1947, the reconstruction of the historical St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt on the Main has begun. The first national meeting took place at St. Paul's Church in 1848. The...
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27.12.1945 - On 12/27/1945, Frankfurt residents load wood for heating into their carts. Due to the shortage of coal, anything suitable for heating is in great demand.
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29.09.1948 - "Coal Seekers" picking out usable material for the winter from slag piles on Sept. 29, 1948.
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27.12.1945 - Two Frankfurt citizens take the opportunity on 27 December 1945 and supply themselves with heating coal from a truck.
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01.01.1946 - Due to the lack of heating material in the winter of 1946, people collect firewood in the Grunewald forest in Berlin.
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01.01.1946 - Children search for heatiing material in the rubble of a building in Wiesbaden in the post-war year of 1946.
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04.01.1947 - People wait in the freezing cold at a freight station in Germany on Jan. 4, 1947, for a train loaded with heating coal.
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01.05.1946 - Zeitungsverkäuferin an ihrem Zeitungsstand im zerstörten Berlin, Deutschland 1946. Newpaper vendor with her booth at destroyed Berlin, Germany 1946.
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05.11.1947 - Poverty in post-war Germany: An 80-year-old woman sits in front of the ruins of her former drapery store in Munich, Germany, 5 November 1947.
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30.06.1947 - Housewives are standing in a queue in front of a store in Stuttgart where the first early potatoes are sold, in July 1947.
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30.11.1945 - "American give us something to eat or we will not forget Hitler", is written on a poster in front of the ruins of Munich, in Winter 1946/47.
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30.11.1945 - Woman preparing a meal in a barely furnished kitchen, in 1946.
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13.05.1948 - Eine Stewardess übergibt einem Mitglied des Frauenausschusses des U.S. Press Clubs einige Bananen der Sendung aus den USA, aufgenommen in Berlin am 13.05.1948. Am 13. Mai 1948 kame...
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30.11.1946 - While a baby is looking out of the buggy curiously, the mother and other women pick harvested cornfields. Picture taken in summer 1947.
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30.11.1945 - Eine Stange Zigaretten der Marke "Chesterfield" wird gegen Geld getauscht, Symbolfoto aus dem Jahr 1946. Zigaretten waren in der Nachkriegszeit ein begehrtes Schwarzmarktgut.
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30.11.1945 - Distribution of food cards at the Food Agency in Frankfurt on the Main, in December 1945.
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30.11.1999 - A group of children is playing between ruins of destroyed houses in a city in Germany. (Undated picture). The ruins of bomb-damaged streets are an adventure playground to children.
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30.11.1999 - Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg humpelt ein beinamputierter Kriegsversehrter auf Krücken durch die zerstörte Hansestadt Hamburg. Foto: dpa [dpabilderarchiv]
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30.11.1999 - Women are searching for beachnuts between the fallen leaves of the autumn. The food shortage and rationings in post-war Germany force the people to search for food in forests and o...
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30.11.1999 - In the years after the end of the Second World War, many people are searching for something to eat in the kitchen waste of the Americans on a huge garbage dump near Ludwigsburg. Th...
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30.11.1946 - Patched-up and full of holes - the shoes of youths in Berlin, 1947.
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01.01.1940 - A group of children plays in the debris of a destroyed city in post-war Germany. (Undated archive photograph from the 1940s)
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