Young Germans hold banners and sit on portion of a building. A crowd assembled in front of bombed out building in Germany, several months after the end of World War 2, in Europe. The crowd listens to a speech delivered by a man. a large sign near the speaker reads "Freedom." Elsewhere, a road sign reads 'You Are Now Entering Russian Occupied Zone'. Newspaper headlines read 'Reds Declare War On Japs'. The Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin examining official papers with the Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
NATO officers walk through a wooded area, led Alphonse Juin, Chief of Staff, Nato Infantry. General Juin was recently promoted to rank of Marshal of France, and wears corresponding seven-star rank insignia on his uniform. A U.S. Army Piper Cub aircraft takes off from a rough airfield, on which several other aircraft are parked.
Views of NATO forces in various places in Europe. A man sits on a step smoking a cigar. Nearby is a camouflaged tank, that demonstrates movement of its turret and gun. The gunner descends into the tank. Policeman directs tank and other traffic at an intersection. A Chimney Sweep in top hat, smoking a cigarette, stands by his bicycle, next to a NATO machine gun position, at a roadside. He gives a light to one of the soldiers in the gun emplacement. A tank rolls past the emplacement. An American gun crew runs to their heavy artillery gun and prepares it to fire. They demonstrate dry firing the gun. Another American gun crew mans an antiaircraft weapon and demonstrates its mobility.
Two U.S. Air Force F-80 shooting star jets fly overhead and then demonstrate bombing on a field in the Netherlands. NATO observers watch from a hillside next to a large windmill. Explosions are set off in the field, creating moderate-sized billowing mushroom clouds. NATO Infantrymen jump up from camouflaged positions and charge. General Alfred Greunther, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, walks with a NATO officer. He boards a helicopter and departs.
A scientific exhibition at the United States' pavilion at West Berlin's central exhibition site. People lined up at the entrance to USA exhibit. Exterior view of the U.S. Pavilion. U.S. flag flies at the building and signs reading: "United States" and "ERF" are displayed above the building. Signs in the pavilion read: 'ATOM' and 'George C. Marshall - Haus'. People assembled to watch the exhibition. People lined up on stairs. U.S. representatives demonstrate how a nuclear fission assembly works, with simulated fuel and control rods and an instrument for reading radiation levels. A technician demonstrates how radioactive materials can be handled remotely, in a laboratory, using a robotic machine to manipulate delicate glass funnels and bottles. An inflatable laboratory suit is demonstrated, that one could crawl out to and work in while in a toxic environment.
Crowd gathered to hear speech in Prague, Czechoslovakia after death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in March 5, 1953. Balcony and entrance way to the National Museum of Prague (Václavské nám. 68, 110 00 Nové Město, Czechia) as crowd gathers to listen to Czechoslovak Prime Minister Antonín Zápotocký's speech.
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