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American sends supplies to European countries under Marshall Plan; blockade of Berlin by Soviet Union

American food, machine, tools and other supplies loaded in ships for Europe under Marshall Plan. German citizens in West Berlin German busy rebuilding after World War 2 destruction. Men at construction sites and boys and men moving equipment, bricks, steel, lumber, cement, and wheel barrows. Communists demonstrate in Soviet east Berlin. Men and women climbing fences at a building while a crowd pushes forward. Communists blockade Berlin. East German police officers in a human chain move a crowd. A blockaded area dividing the city. Industrial production stopping due to power failures. Closeup of analog power dial moving to zero from a power cut. A light in a factory turning off. Goods piled up idle in train stations, unable to be moved. A blocked border crossing at Helmstedt, and a line of trucks with food supplies at the crossing, stopped and unable to pass. Truck drivers discuss the impasse with a Russian guard.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058355
President Ronald Reagan gives a speech about East West relations at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.

United States President Ronald Reagan addressing people at the Brandenburg Gate (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Large crowd gathers People stand with the United States flags. Dignitaries on the platform. The flags on the platform. President at the podium gives a speech in front of the crowd. The crowd applauds. He discusses the free state of prosperity and well-being. He talks about the relations between the East and the West and arms control. He also discusses the Soviet's challenge to the Western Allianz about nuclear weapons. President Reagan suggests nuclear weapons and the chemical weapons should be eliminated. He talks about the 1986 restoration of democracy in the Philippines, freedom in Europe and the technological advancements taking place. He says that the West is ready to cooperate with the East as and when needed.

Date: 1987, June 12
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028312
German Stuka dive bombers are loaded and they drop bombs on woods and an industrial areas of Western Europe.

German Stuka dive bombers shell an industrial area and roads in Western Europe during World War 2. Ground crew unloads bombs from a truck and carries them to a plane. They fill and load 1000 pound bombs on the plane. German pilot boards the aircraft. He is given a motion picture camera. A squadron of Stukas takes off. Stuka aircraft drop bombs and dive, attacking targets along roadways and in towns. The bombs explode in an industrial area and along roadways and transit routes.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675046409
German Stuka dive bombers take off and bomb Western Europe.

German Stuka dive bombers shell Western Europe. The Stukas take off and in flight. They drop a series of bombs. Huge explosions. Troops on land. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675046411
The Quebec and Tehran Conferences in World War II. German defenses in the Western Wall. The air war in Europe.

Allied strategic Conferences in World War 2. Opening scene shows Château Frontenac. Then President Franklin Roosevelt seated with Canada Prime Minister, McKensie King, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Scene shifts to their respective military staffs conferring at a table. Next scene shows the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran, with the Big Three (Joseph Stalin, FDR, and Churchill) seated on the portico, and their top ranking military officers standing behind them. Soviet Marshal Kliment Voroshilov stands behind Stalin. American officers are seen in next scene, including General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King (lighting a cigarette) and General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, stands behind King and Arnold. Closeup of Churchill. Shift to an animated map of Europe. It illustrates the massive fortifications put in place by the Nazis along the coast of occupied Europe. Camera pans across heavy German coastal guns, Pill Boxes, and shore obstacles in place on the beaches. Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel leads a group of German officers on an inspection tour of the "Atlantic Wall" defenses. Closeup of Rommel. British Bristol Blenheim bombers en route to attack targets in the German occupied areas. Views of Allied airmen inside cockpit of their bomber aircraft. A flight of five German fighters (appear to be Bf-109s) peeling off to attack an Allied bomber. View inside bomber of American gunner in bomber firing machine gun at attacking German fighter. Head on view of German Focke Wulf FW-190 fighter heading straight toward the camera, and point of view from gun camera as German aircraft zooms up over it. Gunner in bomber firing. An aircraft exploding inflight. View inside Allied bomber, through cracked windshield, of aircraft in a formation of U.S. Martin B-26 Marauder bombers. Next shot is rearward from bomb bay showing bombs away view as bombs are released from a B-26. Scene shifts to aerial view from rear of a U.S. B-17 bomber dropping bombs. View of the bombs striking a railroad marshaling yard. Another view of a B-26 bomber in flight.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041991
U.S. Army General Dwight Eisenhower delivers a speech on the V-E Day in Paris, France.

U.S. Army General Dwight Eisenhower speaks on the V-E day in Paris, France during World War II. General Eisenhower delivers a speech in Paris on the Victory in Europe Day. The General states that he has the proud privilege of speaking for the fighting men in his theater who conquered Western Europe and destroyed more men than they themselves possessed. The Allies selected Germany as their first object because it was the one place that all the Allies could bring their weight to bear. General Eisenhower pays his tribute to the Soviet Russian Army, the Allied Forces in Italy, the French, the British and the Americans on the Western Front and to GI Joe and his counterparts whom he says were the real heroes of the war.

Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055089