U.S. President Richard Nixon at the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn Germany, during his visit to Europe. An eagle flag over the entrance of the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn. President Nixon, German Chancellor Kurt G Keisinger, President Heinrich Luebke and other dignitaries pose at the portio for a photo shoot. Press photographers and cameras take photos. The German and U.S. National flags on the street poles.
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
U.S. President John F Kennedy's motorcade moving to Villa Hammerschmidt, German President Heinrich Lubke's residence in Bonn. Two children greet President by giving U.S. and German flags to him. Scene of signing a deal. President Kennedy with his sister Eunice Shriver, wife of Director Peace Corps meets volunteers. Footage of signed deal. President arrives at Federal Foreign Office for inauguration of West German Development Service and addresses international press community about U.S. and West Germany relationships, and German reunification.
New German Army in Bonn, Germany. Defense Minister addresses the First soldiers of the New German Army in a formal induction. Former Officers of the Wehrmacht with ranks as high as Lieutenant and General. Documents handed over to the officers.
Soldiers of Allied Armed forces inspect the war damaged birth home of Ludwig Von Beethoven in Bonn, Germany. The house was damaged during World War II. Soldiers with weapons stand outside the houses and read the name plates. Other houses near Beethoven's house. Soldiers enter the destroyed house and walk on rubble. Bust of Beethoven in the damaged house.
Soldiers of Allied Armed forces in Bonn, Germany. They inspect the house of Ludwig Von Beethoven which was damaged during World War II. In the backyard the soldiers observe the damage to the house by bombing and battle. Soldiers walk on debris and enter the house. Other houses on roadside near Beethoven's house. Soldiers enter the destroyed house and walk on rubble. Bust of Beethoven in the damaged house.
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