Machine power in Canada and Germany in World War 2. Canadian Industry workers walk into a war production plant punching time cards as they enter. Men welding. Steel worker checking heat of hot steel with temperature-reading glasses. Workers in Canadian factory prepare machinery for war. 20th April 1939: Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany reviews German army in parade on his 50th birthday (Narrator incorrectly states the year as 1938, but Hitler's 50th birthday was in 1939 and these images are from the 1939 parade). Heavy breakthrough tanks roll by, followed by Army division assault tanks. Motorized troops march followed by Infantry and then parachute troops. Stuka Dive bombers fly overhead with Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule) in the foreground. Hitler and others watch the flight.
Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. People walk in the Square. Cars and Horse cart on road. The Statue of Victory Column or Siegessäule in the background. Men and women pass by the Gate. Building beside the Brandenburg Gate. Statue of Quadriga on the Gate.
United States President Ronald Reagan arrives with his wife at the Brandenburg Gate (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Large crowds gather in the ground. Dignitaries on the platform to greet the President. President Reagan arrives, and the crowd applauds. Loudspeakers on the ground. Trees on the ground. People stand with the United States flags.
United States President Ronald Reagan addressing people at the Brandenburg Gate (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Large crowd gathers People stand with the United States flags. Dignitaries on the platform. The flags on the platform. President at the podium gives a speech in front of the crowd. The crowd applauds. He discusses the free state of prosperity and well-being. He talks about the relations between the East and the West and arms control. He also discusses the Soviet's challenge to the Western Allianz about nuclear weapons. President Reagan suggests nuclear weapons and the chemical weapons should be eliminated. He talks about the 1986 restoration of democracy in the Philippines, freedom in Europe and the technological advancements taking place. He says that the West is ready to cooperate with the East as and when needed.
C-47 Skytrain and C-131B at Tempelhof Air Base in Berlin, Germany. A C-47 Skytrain lands at the air base. Another aircraft C-131B lands. The plane taxis down a parking area. An officer and a family alights from the plane. They walk away from the aircraft and get into a station wagon. A board reads ' Tempelhof Berlin,Germany USAF in Europe'.
Allied delegates at a meeting in Berlin, Germany. Allied Control Council building in Berlin, Germany. Meeting of the Allied control Council. Russian delegation. Chairman of the meeting General Joseph T. McNarney. Marshal Georgy Zhukov. American and Russian delegates. French delegation with its head General Pierre Koenig. Koenig with his political advisor Jacques Tarbe de Saint Hardoin.
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