Where to go from here

If you took some interest in this project you might look for further sources of your inspiration. Here are some books and films:

• A school in Cologne (13:28 minuts), Control Commission for Germany by the Central Office for Information (1948) — moving film that shows the hardships of the pupils in post-war Cologne

• 1945 – Kriegsende in Köln [1945 – End of war in Cologne] (DVD), emons-Verlag, 85 minuts, ed. by Hermann Rheindorf

• So viel Anfang war nie. Deutsche Städte 1945 – 1949 [There was never so much beginning. German cities 1945 – 1949], Siedler (1992): also remarkable by its bw photos

• Harald Jähner, Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, Penguin (2022?). Much acclaimed description of postwar Germany covering many aspects, extraordinary well written