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Communist rallies in Paris and east Berlin Germany for May Day, also simulated communist takeover in Mosinee Wisconsin

A "communist menace" in Europe (early during Cold War). The Local Communist Party demonstrates in Paris. A banner of Frederic Joliot Curie. Joliot Curie participates in the protest. Scene changes to Berlin. In Soviet sector, east German crowd marches in May Day parade celebrating Soviet leaders in the invisible line divided east and west Berlin (before Berlin Wall erected). View of crowd on other side in west Berlin staging its own demonstration against the Soviets and against a divided Germany. Civilians throw stones across the "line" and the police control them. Men form human chains to protest. Scene changes to community in Wisconsin where the effect of a Communist fifth column takeover is dramatized and recorded on film for an anti-communist propaganda effort: The police put the protesters behind bars in Mosinee, Wisconsin. Group of Communists enter newspaper offices, stop the operation of the free press , and put the editor in jail. The Red Star newspaper headlines: 'Official Soviet Proclamation'. A sign: U.S. Post Office, Mosinee. Propaganda posters and banners of Soviet Union are posted. USSA price tag on a bicycle. The Soviet flag raised in the community. Soup line and blankets are distributed to the workers to the 24 hour Communism "experiment" in Mosinee Wisconsin.

Date: 1950, May 4
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045097
Berlin Wall separates East and West Berlin, Germany

Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064335
Social and Economic differences between West Berlin and East Berlin, Germany during communist rule of East Germany.

Communist threat to Berlin, Germany as the Soviet Union presses for a unified Communist Berlin. Traffic signal man demonstrates hand signals on street in West Berlin. View of citizens in West Berlin shopping, engaging in commerce, and going to and from work among newly constructed buildings, improved roads, and wearing new fashions. Sign near the Brandenburg Gate. Contrast is made with East Berlin, East Germany where buildings still in ruin from World War II are shown, including on the famous Unter den Linden Boulevard. Communist East German troops march on road. Woman enters a building and writes on a note pad. East German workers dig with spades at a construction site. The Western Powers get out of free Berlin uniting with the East Berlin under communist rule. Social and economic differences seen contrasting communist versus capitalist systems in Berlin. A woman working alongside men at a construction site.

Date: 1958, November 14
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043357
Former United States Vice President Richard Nixon with his family visits East Berlin Wall.

Former United States Vice President Richard Nixon visits West Berlin. View of Berlin Wall. Richard Nixon with his family reaches at Checkpoint Charlie (Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in West Berlin. Signs in Checkpoint Charlie saying, “ALLIED CHECKPOINT” AND “U.S. ARMY CHECKPOINT CHARLIE”. Former Vice President Nixon is joined by his family, Mrs. Pat Nixon and daughters Patricia “Tricia” and Julie. Then Nixon visits the East Berlin Wall with his family. Nixon and his family at the Preview stand. Nixon waves at East Berliners. View of East Berlin beyond the Berlin Wall. Close view of Nixon. The Union-Verlag (Charlottenstrasse 79, DDR-1080 Berlin), a publishing house of the East German Christian Democratic Union of Germany (East CDU) bloc party, can be seen on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

Date: 1963, July 7
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039199
Russian Soldiers place a wreath at Soviet World War II memorial in Berlin, East Germany.

Red Army Day in Berlin, East Germany. Russian soldiers carrying a wreath march along Unter den Linden. They place the wreath in honor of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II at the Soviet War Memorial (Puschkinallee, 12435 Berlin, Germany) in Treptower Park. Soldiers march towards the memorial. They place a wreath. A Russian soldier on guard.

Date: 1950
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049656
The Soviet Army suppresses uprising of 1953 in East Berlin and other cities in East Germany

The Soviet Army suppresses uprisings in East Germany during worker strike and civilian protest of 1953. Demonstrators haul down a red flag atop the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin. Crowds at Potsdamer Platz disperse as gunfire breaks out. A wounded demonstrator is assisted by comrades during the protest. Soviet tanks rumble through the streets. Martial law is declared and orders of the Military High Command are posted in East Berlin. Demonstrators throw rocks at Soviet tanks on the street. Soviet tanks and troops block demonstrators. A map shows East German cities with uprisings: Dresden, Magdeburg, Frankfurt, Schwerin, Leipzig, Rostock, Erfurt, Chemnitz, and others. A poster dated 18 June, 1953 announces the execution of Willy Goettling as a leader of the uprising. A newspaper announcement reports the condemnation of Alfred Diener, of the city of Jena, as a provocateur. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany, presides over a public funeral for Germans who lost their lives in the Soviet suppression of East Berlin. Leaders of East Germany are seen and East German proceedings against alleged ringleaders of the uprisings. East German refugees fill a large open building. They carry belongings and sleep on the floor.

Date: 1953, June
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056710