At the beginning of July, the American camera teams are also allowed to film in Berlin. They manage to get unique colour shots of the destroyed capital and its inhabitants. While George Stevens does not get permission to film the Potsdam Conference, Major Lawton is at least allowed to be present at the first meeting of the new US President Harry Truman with Kremlin ruler Josef Stalin. When US troops conquer Nazi Germany from the west in March 1945, camera teams follow them, documenting the defeated and occupied country. The special feature: they shoot in 16mm colour. The result is unique film footage of the destroyed cities and its inhabitants, but also depressing images of the victims of terror and the policy of extermination.
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Germany is defeated, but not yet occupied. While the Red Army is already at the Oder, the Allies are making slow progress in the West. Only when Cologne is conquered and the bridge at Remagen has fallen into the hands of the Americans does the Wehrmacht’s will to defend itself weaken. Now American camera teams are also allowed into the areas liberated from the Nazis. Their first destination is the Remagen Bridge, which has already become a legend. The evacuated inhabitants of Cologne return to their destroyed city. Impressive colour shots show the faces of the defeated. Other teams of “Special Film Project 186” and Hollywood director George Stevens follow the US troops through the Westerwald towards Thuringia. When US troops conquer Nazi Germany from the West in March 1945, camera teams follow, documenting the defeated and occupied country. The special feature: they shoot in 16mm colour. The result is unique film footage of the destroyed cities and their inhabitants, but also depressing images of the victims of terror and the policy of extermination.
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