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A tunnel from East to West Berlin being recovered by the East Berlin police in Germany.

An underground tunnel in Berlin, Germany. An apartment in East Berlin near the Berlin Wall. “Heidelberger Str.” Street sign behind the Berlin Wall. A sign reads 'You are leaving the American sector' at Checkpoint Charlie. An underground tunnel leading to West Berlin where Heinz Jercha was shot dead for helping East Berliners escape. Underground tunnel at Heidelberger Strasse 75 at the sector border between Berlin-Treptow and Berlin-Neukölln. The East Berlin police find a stairway leading to the tunnel. A woman walks out of a door. Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin.

Date: 1962, April 2
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078218
New government formed in East Germany and civilian laborers working under harsh conditions demonstrate.

New government formed in East Germany after the defeat of Nazis in World War II. Early GDR (DDR) Communist Party meeting underway in East Germany in 1949. Attendees applaud as GDR President Wilhelm Pieck, leader of the party, is congratulated. Joseph Stalin reviews parade at Kremlin in Moscow. East German refugees fleeing to the West with their belongings in hand. East German military erecting fence posts for new wire fences to deter escape (which evolved soon after into the Berlin Wall). Watch tower overlooking a border zone between East Germany and West Germany. Socialist meetings in small towns in East Germany. Townspeople marching through towns with party flags. Industry under communist rule, with men and women working at metal and coal factories and at railroads. Citizen soldiers, both men and women being trained and armed with rifles as local militia. They march in a parade with their arms. Children with Bows and arrows follow them. An archery contest for the children with Communist party leaders looking on in approval. A young East German girl shoots an arrow and hits the bulls eye on a target of Konrad Adenauer, leader of West Germany. Soviet military and tanks parade on streets of East Germany.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056707
U.S. soldiers patrol the West Berlin border and look into East Berlin through binoculars in Germany.

Aerial view of monuments and buildings in West Berlin including the Victory Column (Siegessäule Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany) and the war damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany). Street view of cars and buildings near Kurfürstendamm. View of the Brandenburg Gate obstructed by the Berlin Wall. U.S. Army soldiers patrol the West Berlin border in Germany. American soldiers of Berlin Brigade in a Jeep as they move past Charlie Checkpoint. The jeep moves along the Berlin wall as soldiers patrol the borders of West Berlin. Point of view (POV) shot from jeep as it passes immediately beside the Berlin Wall. Soldiers get out of the jeep and climb up an observation tower. They view East Germany through binoculars. Views of Berlin Wall and barricades and obstacles in the "death strip" area beyond the wall. The U.S. Army soldiers carry M-60 machine guns. They reenter the jeep and continue their patrol. Views of graffiti painted on the Berlin Wall. A sign, "You are leaving the American Sector" in Checkpoint Charlie.

Date: 1980, March 18
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058827
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: Crowds in East Berlin protest against East German Communist government policies

Unrest in Berlin, East Germany. A large crowd gathers to demonstrate against East German government. A banner carried by some demonstrators calls for free elections. Armed Stasi watch the demonstrators. Demonstrators burn banners and posters and damage public property. People stands on roofs of houses and watch the demonstrations. Armed East German police and some Soviet soldiers watch the demonstrators from their headquarters. Demonstrators tear up and burn signs and start a bonfire. East German Stasi reinforce the checkpoint between the Soviet and American sectors of Berlin. A uniformed Berlin police officer, wearing traditional hat, assists a person who was manhandled by the mob. A building set afire by the demonstrators. View from West Berlin of mob in East Berlin. Sign reads: "You are leaving the American Sector."

Date: 1953, June
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056709
A rally by Communist youth in Berlin, East Germany.

Communists in Berlin, East Germany. The Brandenburg Gate after World War II. British soldiers on armored vehicles behind barbed wires. American troops in the background. Truck loaded with German girls. Children attend an East German Young Pioneer rally. Rally entrance sign reads “Pionierrepublik Ernst Thälmann”. A youth band plays music. Young boys and girls wash dishes at a trough. A colorful Young Pioneer parade at a stadium. People at the Soviet World War II Memorial. People carry picture of Stalin and banners. Communist Young Pioneer youth at the rally. A banner reads 'Yankee, Go Home' Girls hold pictures of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. German youth marches in Russian uniforms. Russian soldiers also march.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049655
Nikita Khrushchev on television and radio after the division of Berlin, Germany; life in the city being divided by Berlin Wall

The divided city of Berlin, Germany soon after World War II. People listening to television and radio. Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev seated at desk and speaking into microphone. Refugees arriving into West Berlin. Stockpile of coal. Warehouse full of butter. The warehouse loaded with bags of cement. East German soldiers with armored vehicles on guard by the Brandenburg Gate. East German armored water tank trucks in front of Brandenburg Gate spraying water at the West German photographers and onlookers. East Germans constructing concrete Berlin Wall. People in West Germany waving to people looking out of window of an apartment house in East Berlin; as they are separated from each other at time of a family Wedding. A child and a woman cry as they wave. Two British armored cars escorting a boy on a bike as he passes from one sector to another to get to and from school. Crowds of West Berliners yelling at guards on East Berlin side in protest. Soldiers at the border.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076564