3 large WWII photos of devastated Germany at end of war

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For your consideration is a lot of three large, harrowing images of Germany at the end of WWII. Lot includes a photo of German prisoners in Treburg, refugees at the railway yards in Bamburg, Germany and one of German citizens moving from the East of Berlin to the West near the Brandenberg Gate, presumably to flee the Russian-controlled side of teh city. The latter has a long propagandistic explanation on back which urges Germany's children to learn the mistakes of Nazism and join Democratic Europe. Each photograph has a full description on back, which I have included in the photos below. See photos below for more information.These are original photos snapped, developed and disseminated to news organisations during the war, not later reproductions. They were formerly in thecollection of long-defunct Washington D.C. newspaper, the WashingtonEvening Star. The gentleman I bought these from worked at the newspaper and saved them from the trash when the paper decided to clean house some years after the war. According to him, the newspaper, as well as other local news organisations, received a much wider variety of press/propaganda photos than their counterparts around the country due to their close proximity to the Department of War/War Information in Washington D.C... hence, these and other photographs from this spectacular collection read more

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