Berlin, 1945
Germany signed an unconditional surrender to the Allies on this day in 1945, and some newly available footage shows what life in Berlin was like just a couple of months later, in July. Rubble women, the devastated Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, the burned-out Adlon Hotel, and people trundling through the ruined city on bikes. Early color footage is always strange. The world doesn’t look so different.