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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."

Location: Berlin East Germany
Date: 1953, June
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056709
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.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076564
Views of Americans in West Berlin; then scenes of East Berlin soldiers in a parade in East Germany

Life of Americans in enclave in West Berlin. American children at United States Army community school in West Berlin. American music being played on radio as youth dance to rock and roll tunes. American soldiers on duty outside the United States Headquarters in West Berlin. In East Berlin soldiers including Russian comrades march and salute. Nikita Khrushchev arrives at an airport in Berlin and greets East German leader Walter Ulbricht with an embrace and hand shake. East Berliners move as refugees to refugee camps in the western half of Berlin, to escape East German communist rule. Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders pounding fists on a table at a diplomatic gathering.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037559
East German guards across the Berlin Wall and U.S. soldiers march past in West Berlin, Germany

East Germans cross the Berlin Wall (also known as the “Wall of Shame”) in Berlin, Germany in the year 1962. View of the Wall of Shame or Berlin Wall. Reflective mirror light from atop a tower intended to block western observation of activity in East Berlin. Officer looks through binoculars at the East German guards across the wall. Communist East German guards carrying away body of Bernd Luenser who was shot trying to escape to West Berlin. Russian guards loaded in buses move through streets. Freedom bell in the Rathaus Schöneberg rings. General of the United States Army Lucius D. Clay salutes as the Allied soldiers march past in the streets of West Berlin along with United States tanks.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1963, January 1
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073160
Berlin Crisis: The Western Powers respond to threats from the Soviet Union

Opening scene shows the Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) where Mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt addresses a large crowd of West Berlin citizens, concerned about the building of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union. Many carry placards and signs, including some in English, reading: "We trust Kennedy, Pay any price, Bear any burden, for survival of Liberty" and "Millions behind the Iron Curtain ask for help." Scene shifts to a limousine driving into the center of a crowd. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson steps from the car, accompanied by General Lucius D. Clay, who is seen next, with arm raised, acknowledging the crowd, while standing with Johnson and Brandt, at a podium cluttered with microphones. (Narrator refers to him as "Father of the Airlift.") The next day, British and American soldiers are seen driving in jeeps and trucks and M59 Armored Personnel Carriers, through cheering crowds, as they arrive to reinforce their Berlin garrisons. Closeup of cheering Berliners, waving handkerchiefs. Change of scene shows animated map of Europe illustrating the Westward expansion and growth of Soviet Communist occupation through World War II and the postwar era, concluding with East Berlin, in 1962. The threat to other Nations and regions is also illustrated. Legislators are seen in session in the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag in Bonn. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is addressing the assembly. He states that Germany does not stand alone in the world. In France, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou addresses the National Assembly, regarding the Berlin Wall. In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan addresses Parliament. In the United States, on September 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, is addressing the UN General Assembly, in New York, about the dangerous crisis in Berlin. Scenes of the Berlin wall and Checkpoint Charlie. Memorials to persons killed attempting to escape East Berlin, are seen along the wall.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037561
East Berliners parade during May Day celebrations in East Berlin, East Germany.

People carry flags and banners during a May Day parade in East Berlin, East Germany. East German flags hang from buildings. Opening scene shows tower of the Sophienkirche in the background. Civilians carrying banners expressing views of companies, unions, and trade groups against imperialism and for communism. One group carries a large faux millimeter caliper with a top hat on it. Some carry East German tricolor flags and many carry large red flags. At about TC: 01:00, the spire of St Mary's church (Marienkirche) is seen behind buildings. At TC: 01:26, a marcher carrying a poster with image of Fidel Castro, is seen. As the parade progresses, uniformed People's police (Deutsche Volkspolizei) and other uniformed personnel, including one group wearing white armbands, are seen in the parade. Men and women parade in East German army uniforms. Health care workers in white uniforms are seen. (Note: Footage covers areas from Friedrichsbrücke to Rochstraße and Burgstraße, near station Börse.)

Location: Berlin East Germany
Date: 1961, May 1
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034244
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