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Women shovel briquettes into wagons, Westhafen Berlin 1946

Name: Women shovel briquettes into wagons, Westhafen Berlin 1946
Uploaded: 2026-09-04T00:21:46.445Z
Duration: 27 s
Channel: The March of Time (Outtakes)

On the tracks of the Westhafen in Moabit, women shovel briquettes out of open freight wagons; the coal came from the Soviet occupation zone and was brought via the inland harbor into the British sector. From there it went to bakeries and municipal offices, since fuel was scarce and strictly rationed in Berlin after 1945. This heavy physical labor often fell to women, as men were absent or deployed elsewhere. Footage like this documents everyday life in the four-sector city during the first 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: HFE010009
Length: 0' 27"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 602,388,804 bytes

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