United States tanks and trucks of the 40th Armored Cavalry march during a parade in Berlin, Germany. Russian harassment in the air and along ground routes to Berlin brings the display of Allied military power. Tanks, armored vehicles and artillery displayed during the parade. A crowd of German people watches the parade. United States soldiers and military officers during the parade.
Camera pans along a portion of the "Berlin Wall" made of rough concrete blocks topped by barbed wire. Next, a large group of East German people are seen lined up along a fence topped with barbed wire. They look through the fence. More views of the rough concrete block wall. Scene shifts to Asia, where large numbers of refugees are seen moving along a dirt road. Glimpse of Soviet military on parade in Red Square. Refugees and displaced persons in various places and conditions. Some are barefoot. Huge crowds filling Red Square in Moscow,Soviet Russia. The Kremlin wall and old Russian Senate building and Senate Tower in background. Glimpse of Felix Dzerzhinsky giving empassioned speech in Soviet Russia. A baby with an angry expression throwing a tantrum. Glimpse of fallen refugees beside a road. The film displays a rotating globe of the earth and slate identifying "The Big Picture." A statue and photograph of Karl Marx, the philosopher who espoused Communism. Communists marching during early days of the Russian Revolution in Russia circa 1917. Series of One-way road signs in various languages. Large gathering of German people carrying signs reading "Frieden" (Peace). View of a person apprehended attempting to escape across the barrier separating East and West Germany. Closeup picture of East German citizen, Bernt Leuton, who was shot by East German border guards, after successfully swimming to West Germany.
A documentary titled 'The Battle of Germany' depicts United States B-17 bombers in Germany during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft drop bombs on German targets in Berlin. Aerial views of bombers flying and dropping bombs with explosions of German targets. Flak bursts near bombers in flight. Shot of bombers returning home shows a stationary propeller on the camera-carrying aircraft, that was knocked out of action during the bombing run. Another B-17 lands and wounded flight crew is taken off the plane to an ambulance by medical personnel. A large group of flyers and crew stand near a B-17 aircraft with nose art name "I'll be around", and some sit on the aircraft. A crew member says to the camera, "Men, now that we've been the first ones to Berlin, how would you like to go back again?" The men then cheer.
Celebration for Soviet Army victory in Moscow, Soviet Union during World War II. Ruins and damaged buildings in Berlin, Germany. Thousands of victorious soldiers march in Moscow. Soviet officers salute from a review stand. Crowds of civilians cheer and kiss the soldiers. Fireworks at night.
Ernst Hanfstaengl (known as "Putzi"; an early friend of Adolf Hitler) sitting in an apartment in Berlin, Germany, smoking a long tobacco pipe as he shares lunch and conversation with Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf and a woman (possibly Ingeborg von Wedel Helldorf?). He shows them a sculpture of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler by German sculptor Josef Thorak, whom he says the couple will meet later that morning. Close-up view of the bust of Hitler. Hanfstaengl plays the piano for the couple, introducing the song as one he wrote called "The Heart of Song." Behind him, on a book shelf, is a bust of Paul von Hindenburg and a photograph of Adolf Hitler.
Destruction of infrastructure in Berlin after World War II. Bomb damage to the interior of the Anhalter Bahnhof station in Berlin. Rubble piled up in a square. Damaged railroad tracks at the station. Demolished buildings in the background.
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