This photograph, from the personal collection of a soldier of the U.S. 11th Armored Division, documents the aftermath of Allied strategic bombing in a German city, circa 1945. Laborers work to clear rubble using small narrow-gauge rail carts, while salvaged bricks are cleaned and stacked in orderly piles for reuse -- a labor-intensive process repeated across hundreds of shattered German cities in the years following the war. Project: 218450