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Inspection and loading at the Westhafen food depot, Berlin 1946

Name: Inspection and loading at the Westhafen food depot, Berlin 1946
Uploaded: 2026-09-04T00:21:31.152Z
Duration: 34 s
Channel: The March of Time (Outtakes)

At the Westhafen food depot in Berlin's Moabit district, sacks are inspected, hoisted and loaded onto vehicles before being sent on for distribution in the British sector. Such checks ensured that flour, dehydrated potatoes and other supplies provided by the occupying powers were properly recorded and allocated, since Berliners in 1946 lived on scarce, tightly rationed amounts. As the city's largest inland harbor, Westhafen was a central node in this supply chain. The careful documentation of shipments reflects the bureaucratic effort the Allies invested in securing the population's food supply in the early postwar years.

Period: 1946
Credit: The March of Time (Outtakes)US National ArchivesPublic Domain (NARA) · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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Clip name: HFE010006
Length: 0' 34"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 785,433,860 bytes

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