Adolf Hitler posing in front of the greenhouse, behind the New Reich Chancellery, designed by Albert Speer, in Berlin, during World War 2 (1940).
Various events captured by newsreel cameramen. Political rally broken up by gunfire. Crowd disperses and people run from area in front of Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. Men and women run across street. Building in the background. Smoke arises from explosion and gunfire in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Bomb damage in Berlin after World War II. German civilians enter a subway. Bomb damage in the foreground. Damaged buildings. A bomb damaged subway entrance.
Bomb damage in Berlin after World War II. Unter den Linden boulevard shows bomb damage to buildings all along the street, as seen in point of view shots from a slowly moving vehicle. Ruins of buildings. Rubble on the streets .
View of the State Opera building on Unter den Linden, in Berlin, in 1941, being reconstructed by order of Adolf Hitler, after being bombed in April, 1941, during World War 2. (He ordered the reconstruction in spite of wartime, to bolster German morale at the time.) Trams with equipment and supplies are seen in front of the building. Scene switches to inside, where crystal chandeliers are seen. Camera focuses on two artisans who are restoring gold decoration encircling interior columns. Next, numerous persons are seen at work at various restoration tasks in a section of the building. In another area, dressmakers are busy working on costumes. A woman is seen placing costume helmets on a rack. Various artisans work on statuary and other features of the building and contents. Brief glimpse of restorers examining a painted mural on the floor. Designers working with architectural drawings and models of the Opera house.
In Berlin, at the end of World War 2, in Europe, a large group of ordinary people gather at a hill of debris where a building once stood. Men and Women use shovels to dig dirt from sidewalk and place it in buckets, that others pass up the hill, in a bucket brigade. Closeup of people filling the buckets at the base of the pile of debris. The bucket brigade consists mostly of women. They transfer the filled buckets up the hill and empty ones down via a separate group of volunteers. The buckets are emptied at the top of the heap. Some women transfer large fragments of concrete to one another. The entire project seems intended to clear more space in the sidewalks and streets. View from a high point reveals skeletons of tall buildings and other groups doing similar work to clear rubble from the city walks and roads.
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