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.
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.
German people seen on streets. United States Army soldiers mingle with German people. People read some posters on a pillar. A poster reads 'Bamberger Theater'. People seen talking to a U.S. Army soldier in a corridor. Crowd watches, as a U.S. Army crane lifts Church bells to be hanged in a Church, in Manheim, Germany.. U.S. Army Soldiers help by sandbagging and relief efforts during river flooding in Bavaria. U.S. Army engineers rebuild a road to an orphanage that was wiped out by flooding. Nuns and children thank Americans.
American soldiers and German civilians in Germany. Large crowd of German civilians gathered at a race track. Civilians lined up to purchase tickets from ticket counters. They watch the horse race. United States soldiers fraternize with German girls at a carnival. They enjoy amusement rides at carnival. They dance at dance halls and interact at night clubs.
Joint Allied Control Commission Conference in Berlin,Germany. Joint Allied Control Commission Conference in session to resolve the conflicting economic and political policy. Members of board and representatives of four nations General of the United States Air Force Joseph T. McNarney,Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Marshal of France Alphonse Pierre Juin attend conference. United States Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes addresses German civilians on Vital policy at Stuttgart in 1946. U.S. Ambassador Robert P. Murphy,Senators Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg,Matthew Connelly and General Joseph T. McNarney seated at speaker's stand.
The Nazi Einsatzgruppen Case of the Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, after the end of World War 2. General Telford Taylor gives his summation of the prosecution's case against the Einsatzgruppe. The defendants in the dock. Some of the defendants state that General Taylor believed that they had committed no crime in murdering their victims because they were Jews. Judge Michael Musmanno says that the defendant may now answer, extemporaneously or otherwise, to any new evidence which may have been presented during the prosecutor's summation. The Judges of the tribunal are Michael A Musmanno, John J Speight and Richard D Dixon.