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United States and Russian troops in Germany after World war 2; division of West Germany and East Germany
Bomb damaged and ruined buildings of Nazi Germany in 1945, including the Reichstag. Nazi Eagle symbol of Third Reich pulled down from building and crashes to the ground at end of World War 2. United States Army of occupation marches into city as German population lines sidewalks and watches them parade. Sign on a shop reads "Gaststatte Schosser." Many buildings in view are damaged or destroyed from bomb attacks during World War 2. American soldiers occupying German give candy to German children who at first hide from them. Nazi leaders including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, seen on trial in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. German people struggling to rebuild. women and children trying to gather wood from stumps of trees for fuel. A woman sawing a log. Women and children scraping food from inside trash cans and refuse bins, to stay alive during scarcity and shortages after the war. Americans providing food assistance and feeding German children in relief lines. Close up of a smiling boy as he receives food or drink. Soviet Russian Army soldiers occupying East Berlin and marching in formation. Russians removing an industrial lathe and other machinery and tools from Germany as the Soviet Union continues to strip Germany of resources after the war. A map of Germany and Berlin seen with divided regions as American, British, French and Soviet zones. Views of empty streets and heavily damaged buildings of Berlin after the end of the war. Children play amidst the desolation and destruction in East Berlin. View of Kammergericht, Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Leaders seen meeting inside include American General Joseph T. McNarney, French General Marie Pierre Kœnig (Marie-Pierre Koenig), Soviet General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov,. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. View of Spandau Prison guarded by troops of occupying powers. Soviet and American troops drill and march on the grounds of Spandau Prison. An American soldier relieves a Soviet soldier at a watch post. Soviet blockade of West Berlin begins in June 1948. View of a man shutting down power in a power plant and lights going dark in Berlin. Blackout conditions in Berlin during the blockade. Germans plant vegetables in city to survive. Germans exchange goods in black market setting. A man plants vegetables in view of the Brandenburg Gate. The Berlin Airlift operations underway. U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft flying low and arriving in Berlin, bringing supplies to West Berlin. C-97 landing. U.S. military forces unloading relief supplies and food from airlift aircraft. American C-47s and C-54s in the Berlin Airlift. Soap and milk being unloaded from airplanes. German children gather on a hill and watch low-flying American airlift planes as they approach to land at Tempelhof Aerodrome in Berlin. An Air Force airman throws a package out of the aircraft. It is a very small parachute with candy that drops from the American airplane to the waiting children. Children run to retrieve it and they share and eat the candy. Blockade is lifted in 1949 and rebuilding of West Berlin resumes. View of railroad tracks being re-linked, a locomotive running on tracks, and trains cross between East and West Berlin. Ships loading goods onto trains for Berlin. A coal processing factory running again in Germany. German workers producing industrial parts and goods again in production factories. West German construction workers rebuilding structures in West Germany. German people cast votes, establishing Federated German Republic (West Germany). Figures seen include U.S. General Alfred B. Gruenther with Konrad Adenauer, President of the new German Republic, together in Bonn, Germany. Soviet Russian troops marching on parade in East Germany. East German workers rioting in 1953, in protest of increased production quotas in Communist controlled East Germany. Soviet forces in armored vehicles patrol the streets and disperse the crowd. A large electronic billboard banner flashes West German messages and propaganda to those who can view it in East Berlin. Citizen refugees from East Germany arriving in a processing center in West Germany, carrying bags and luggage. East German refugees laying on the ground on blankets in a crowded immigration processing center of West Germany. A woman irons clothes in the immigration center, while a child plays with dolls.
AFN( American Forces Network) Commanding Officer in staff meeting. German townspeople participate with AFN in Schlossfest.
Commanding Officer and members of AFN ( American Forces Network) staff in a meeting at AFN studio in Frankfurt, Germany. AFN military personnel respond to exercise alert in combat gear with weapons, to maintain their readiness. Local German townspeople, wearing historic costumes attend an annual open house at the castle serving as a headquarters for AFN in Frankfurt, Germany. Scenes of AFN staff and local people enjoying a "Schlossfest." Soldiers and civilians listen to AFN radio. Man lights a cigarette while listening to radio. View of a Radio tower.
U.S. President Kennedy's Address at Assembly Hall, Paulskirche in Frankfurt, Germany.
U.S. President Kennedy arrives in Romerberg, Frankfurt with Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. President Kennedy quotes Abraham Lincoln, former President of America and say that Americans believe in God. President Kennedy's sister-in-law Princess Lee Radziwill can be seen. Vice Chancellor Erhard shakes hand with people. Presidential motorcade arrives at Assembly Hall, Paulskirche in Frankfurt. Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier, President of the Bundestag. Scene of Dean rusk, Secretary of State, U.S. sitting on the chair. President Kennedy addresses people present in the hall. Scene of church.
Frankfurt city street scenes and views of Heidelberg on the Neckar River, during Post-World War II Allied occupation
Street scenes of Frankfurt am Main during post World War II period of Allied occupation. (Opening slate refers to "food," because this was a period of severe food shortage throughout Germany.) German citizens are going about their daily activities. A truck and a car move along the street. Two military policemen walk together along a sidewalk. (They are Americans, because Frankfurt was in the U.S. zone of occupation.) Local people pay little attention to them and they, in turn, do not interact with the citizenry. Scene shifts completely to the City of Heidelberg,on the Neckar River, as viewed from left of the funicular station on the Kaiserstuhl. The camera zooms in slightly, to the area of the old Neckar bridge and the mountain slope leading to the Heidelberg Castle. It then pans from the left across the Kaiserstuhl slope, back again to the earlier views.
German youth honor the memory of Anne Frank, a Nazi concentration camp victim, with a torch light ceremony in Germany.
Annelies Marie 'Anne' Frank is honored in Frankfurt, Germany. German youth honor Frank by gathering at the home in which she was born in Frankfurt. They honor Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, in a torch light ceremony. They unveil a plaque which has been installed on the house.
Dozens of strassenbahnens carry German working people in Frankfurt, Germany
Germany ten years after World War II. People in Frankfurt, Germany. An area in front of massive Bahnhoff. Dozens of strassenbahnens pass by and carry German working people. People move across a street. They move in and out of cars and the flow is unimpeded. The cars move in and out from all directions.
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