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Scenes of Berlin divided by newly built Berlin Wall; Unrest in the years after division into East and West Berlin, Germany
The divided city of Berlin, Germany caused by the erection of the Berlin Wall. Shows early scenes of the Berlin Wall being built. Opening scene shows camera pan from Brandenburg Gate down to street level where East German construction workers are using a jack hammer and hand digging a trench across the middle of the street to serve as foundation for the Berlin Wall. A Soviet guard watches over the construction workers. East Germans and Soviet Russians walking with a spool of razor wire, putting up barbed wire barricades along other sections of the dividing border. German citizens gathered along the wall as it is built in a field area. Several young men in suits being pushed and harassed by a guard on the East German side of the Berlin Wall. View of a railroad train track that has been cut, and workers digging a deep trench at the site to build the wall right through the run of railroad track. East German refugees walking through a checkpoint area, desperate to leave east Germany before total closure of the border occurred. Refugees gathered in crowded shelters with mattresses on the ground. Young German children and babies sleeping on mats. Views of barbed wire crossing railroad track runs. Animated map showing routing of aircraft for the Berlin Airlift in response to the Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union in 1948. Views of various aircraft flying overhead, bringing supplies to citizens during the blockade. Relief supplies and food being unloaded at airport for citizens. People waving white handkerchiefs in the air to express thanks as a Berlin Airlift airplane passes overhead. Scene changes to 1953 riots on the streets of East Berlin, Germany, with crowds of protestors throwing rocks at a Soviet tank and views of a building on fire with smoke pouring from its windows. Next scenes show West Berlin scenes as a juxtoposition of the East Germany scenes. Views of successful German industry and commerce in West Berlin. People working in West Berlin. Newly built tall buildings in West Berlin. German people shop in stores. A boy adds a bar of chocolate to a shopping basket. Men working in large industrial plants and factories. Large Siemens equipment in use in an electrical transmission component factory. A scientist or engineer looking through a microscope like device.
Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley arrives at Gatow airport in Berlin, Germany.
Australian Prime Minister in Berlin, Germany. An Avro Lancaster XPP aircraft (a modified long-distance transport version of the Lancaster Mark X bomber) taxis to a parking place at the Gatow airport in Berlin, Germany. Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley steps from the plane and is greeted by military officers and others including Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Otway Herbert, Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.. Prime Minister Chifley speaks to news reporters as a photographer takes his pictures.
Soviet officers fire at a crowd of German protestors after a freedom rally to protest against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany.
A film on protests against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. Mayor of West Berlin Ernst Reuter speaks during a freedom rally at Platz der Republik, west of the Reichstag building. Civilians running to take cover in the vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate after the Russians (Soviet-controlled Volkspolizei (VP) officers) fired shots into the crowd, killing a 15 year old boy (Wolfgang Scheunemann) according to the narrator. A protestor is seen tearing down the Russian flag from atop the Brandenburg Gate. German civilians from the Reichstag rally marching on their way to the Allied Control Council building (Elßholzstraße 30-33, 10781 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin's Schöneberg. Franz Leopold Neumann and others walk along a street as they go to hand over a people's memorandum seeking freedom and denouncing Soviet oppression.
Berlin Germany in the first hundred days of Soviet Blockade during the Cold War
Film opens showing Russian Bear covered by iron gate and slate reading 100 days Blockade. Camera pans over war-damaged areas of the city of Berlin, Germany. Narrator refers to the Berlin Airlift by the Allies and the Berlin residents not giving up. Views of several buildings undamaged by World War 2, including Kammergericht, the Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Streets crowded by pedestrians going about ordinary business in Berlin. Among them is seen a German soldier, missing a leg and using a crutch. Some Berlin industry activity is seen in a factory where welders are at work. Blockade fences are seen separating the Soviet zone of east Berlin from the allied sectors of West Berlin. Trams are seen that cannot travel between the zones. A person trying to use a gas stove to cook, but has no gas pressure. The city grows dark at night due to electricity shortages, resulting in blackout conditions. Berliners trying to manage simple things at home such as exercising on a fixed bicycle. A man planting a garden in sight of the Brandenburg Gate, at the boundary of the Soviet zone. A police officer using a radio in an automobile in the free part of the city. View of the City Council meeting in West Berlin. This is contrasted with view of East Berlin where members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) backed by the Soviet authorities are seen meeting in a separate city council of East Berlin, not long before the formal founding of East Germany in 1949. Next, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Mayor of West Berlin, addresses the West Berlin City Council.
Women buy bread from a bakery in Berlin, Germany.
Baker pulls out bread out of an oven. Two bakers check the bread loafs on a large oven plate. Women buy bread from a bakery. Pastry products and various kinds of breads on a counter in the bakery, Berlin, Germany.
Workers unload goods from United States C-54 Skymaster in Berlin, Germany, during period of Berlin Airlift.
The United States C-54 Skymaster comes to parking area at an airport in Berlin, Germany. Workers unload sacks of goods from the aircraft. Truck trolley reversed and goods unloaded onto truck. Number of C-54 Skymaster aircraft parked on ground. Aircraft taxis and takes off from runway.