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All the cities at night seems abandoned.
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Contrary to popular belief, blackouts in liberated areas of Europe on the western front did not observe blackouts after late 1944.
The slit headlight covers were removed from allied vehicles, as this was deemed safer for keeping convoys moving at night.
Allied convoys of the time were sometimes described as moving two abreast along a road at night.
The borders of the Reich from the air were described as occasional tracer bursts with blackness on one side and an array of lights on the other.
It not only kept the supply lines running 24 hours a day, it gave night bombers,visual navigation assistance on their way to Germany.
The threat from the Luftwaffe at this time was considered minimal at worst.