An image taken March 2, 1953 of a neighborhood
in Hanau, Germany after the 1944 bombing.
German women of all ages asked to assist in reconstruction due to limit of help considering the large amounts of causalities.
Emergency camps acted as a housing option for European residents.
A map of the division of the Berlin Wall.
Drawing portraying an emigration scene.
Birds-eye view of the bombing on Hanau by the British Air Force in December of 1944.
Suburbs were considered some of the safest neighborhoods in the U.S.
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party.
A line graph showing Immigration from Germany from 1820-2008. Displays the rise of emigration from 1949-1959, the years in which the interview subject emigrated.
Berlin, Germany, like most cities in Germany, left in ruins after the conclusion of the war.
Division of Germany decided on at Potsdam in 1945.
Many immigrants relocated to big cities, such as New York City.
Artist rendering generalizing a common American family from the 1950's.