May Day celebrations in Berlin, East Germany (German Democratic Republic or GDR). Parade of civilians and workers through the streets of Berlin. View of Brandenburg Gate in distance. The marching troops salute the German President, Wilhelm Pieck, at the reviewing stands. Among the spectators also are officials from China. The President waves at the workers and children. A huge crowd, nearly half are women, present to witness the parade.
Ellis Loring Dresel, U.S. Charge' d'affaires stands on sidewalk in Berlin, Germany, with other diplomats, following the signing of Peace Treaty between the United States and Germany, after World War I. He enters a car along with other officials. View of signed Treaty of Peace, signed by Mr. Dresel and also by German Foreign Minister, Dr. Friedrich Rosen.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel visits with Mrs. Goebbels and her children, during a period between command assignments, during World War II. Rommel, standing with aides, in the garden of the Goebbels home in Schwanenwerder, Berlin, smiles as he watches the Goebbels children at play. Magda Goebbels, wife of Propaganda Minister Joseph Paul Goebbels, with her children gathered around a slide in the yard. Rommel watches as Magda helps her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down the slide using a wheeled board and help from another daughter. Field Marshal Rommel looks on and smiles. Rommel along with Magda, return to the house, holding hands with the children. Another view of the activities around the slide. Rommel examines the wheeled board with Mrs. Goebbels, who then helps Heidrun ride it down the slide. Marshal Rommel and Magda Goebbels hold hands with her daughters as they return along a path to the house.
Momentary opening slate (in German) cites a new rocket car, the largest in the world, designed by German chief engineer Alfons Pietsch. Closeup of the liquid-fueled rocket car at the Heylandt factory in Berlin-Britz (Heylandt-Gesellschaft für Apparatebau mbH). The rocket engine is ignited and creates a huge flame behind the car. It travels for a while in the industrial yard of the Heylandt factory until the flame dies. (Note: At the beginning of 1930, rocket engineer Max Valier was given the opportunity to develop a liquid rocket engine at Heylandt in Britz. He was assisted by the Heylandt development engineers Alfons Pietsch, Walter Riedel and Arthur Rudolph, who built the rocket motor in a test vehicle called "hellhound" after Valier's accidental death in May, 1930.) Change of scene shows a rocket car of Max Dalier being refueled from a liquid oxygen tank. Next, the car, with "Heylandt" painted on its side, is seen with Max Valier at the controls, driving about the Heylandt factory grounds, propelled by a moderate thrust from its liquid fueled engine. It circles about the yard several times.
Musicians playing with drums and saxophones during Communist May Day Parade in East Berlin, East Germany. People carry pictures of East German SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) leaders. People carry picture of Karl Marx. A Elektro-Apparate-Werke (EAW) Relaisfabrik float in the parade. Men, women, and children marching in the parade. Soviet soldiers among the marchers.
In September, 1959, United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrives in Berlin, aboard a Boeing VC-137B aircraft (Air Force One). He is greeted by German President Konrad Adenauer. An honor guard of German soldiers salute him. President Eisenhower speaks at the airport and then stands in an open car with motorcade through streets of Berlin. Germans hold up a banner reading: "70 000 000 Germans rely on you." A replica of the American Liberty Bell rings, in the Town Hall of Schöneberg, Germany, as two children watch from below, and one holds her ears. A woman is interviewed, by an American soldier, for the Forces radio Network, about the meaning of the freedom bell to her. Huge crowd gathered in a stadium to celebrate "Berlin Bleibt Frei" (Berlin remains free). Elements of the U.S. Seventh Army on parade. A young German boy stops on a cobblestone street to look and listen to the Freedom Bell ringing from the Town Hall in Schöneberg. He runs and catches up with his mother.
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