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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.
Communist front consumer's league demonstrates against high prices in Berlin, Germany.
A Communist demonstration in Berlin, Germany. Exteriors of the building housing the Allied Control Council in Berlin. An official car approaches the building. People gathered outside the building. In Potsdamer Platz the Communist front consumer's league demonstrates against high prices. People carrying banners march on a street. Two women carry furled Communist flags. Two Russian policemen bring in a suspect. The suspect being cuffed and slapped. A large crowd approaches the meeting place.
Ernst Reuter and Scharnofsky address a crowd during a political rally in Berlin, Germany.
A political rally in Berlin, Germany. Exteriors of a gutted Reichstag building. A crowd gathers for the political meeting. Social Democratic leader Franz Leopold Neumann addresses the crowd. The Soviet flag flies at half mast from atop the Brandenburg Gate. The crowd listens and applauds as leader of the independent trade union Scharnofsky addresses them. Other German leaders of the Western Zone address the crowd followed by German Mayor of West Berlin Ernst Reuter making the final speech.
People gather to listen to speakers outside the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany.
People protest against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. Women close shutters in front of stores. Demonstrators march towards the center of Berlin in vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate. People gathered in front of the Reichstag building as they listen to speakers. British and American soldiers in audience. People gathered in front of the Reichstag building. Four Russian guards walk towards a Soviet monument.
People gather to listen to speakers at a plaza in Berlin, Germany.
People protest against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. Crowds in front of the Allied Control Council building. German political activist Franz Leopold Neumann along with a group of people walks through the crowds. A large crowd assembled in a plaza.
People gather to listen to Franz Neumann during a protest against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany.
People protest against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. A large crowd gathered in vicinity of the Allied Control Council. People on the streets. German political activist Franz Leopold Neumann walks past a dense crowd as he waves. Neumann addresses the crowd from a platform.