United States President Richard Nixon with German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger at the Tegel Airport (Saatwinkler Damm, 13405 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. The United States Air Force One (Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000) aircraft at the runway of Tegel Airport during the departure ceremony. Honor guards and West German Bundeswehr forces on alert at the runway. President Nixon addresses the press at the runway. German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger accompanies him towards the Air Force One. Other members of the delegation and German leaders on the runway.
The ratification of unconditional surrender by Germany being signed in Berlin, Germany after World War II. Allied officers on the streets of Berlin after the end of World War II. Damaged buildings. A damaged hotel in the city. The Brandenburg Gate. Aircraft lined up at an airfield. Officers including United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder discuss with Soviet officers. German Marshall Wilhelm Keitel arrives for signing the ratification of unconditional surrender. German Army school building where the ratification would be signed. Allied flags outside the building. Officers arrive at the building. Soviet Marshall Georgy Zhukov inside the building. Marshall Zhukov at a table. German representatives Marshall Keitel arrives and takes his place with Commanding Admiral of the Kriegsmarine Hans Georg Von Friedeburg and other officers. Keitel signs the ratification of surrender. Marshal Zhukov also signs for the Allies and shakes hands.
Damaged buildings at the Zoologischer Garten zoo (Hardenbergpl. 8, 10787 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany due to Allied bombings during World War II. A wall of a building with Egyptian carvings at the zoo, riddled with bullet holes. Carvings on the walls with extensive damage. A flak tower (the Zoo Tower, presently the site of the Hippopotamus Park inside the zoo) with a sign on it that reads 'ZOO'. The damaged flak tower at the zoo. A wrecked iron gate at the zoo.
Demonstrations in Berlin, Germany. People gather in large numbers in front of the Altes Museum (Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany) in Lustgarten. They hold signs and banners. One sign reads, " Frankreich gieb unserer Kameraden Frei," an appeal for France to free German prisoners of war. (Note: After World War 1, France was slow to repatriate German prisoners of war, and had transported many abroad, to work in her colonies.)
Important buildings in Berlin, Germany. The Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) on Martin Luther Strasse. The Rathaus Schöneberg Tower and the entrance to the Rathaus. The Russian flag at a flagstaff. French, American, and British flags fly. The front of the Allied Control Authority building.
An Allied airlift in West Berlin, Germany. British European Airways office at Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Women refugees from East Germany sign flight papers. Refugee women in a waiting room as they look at an aircraft. Two women smiling. The women board a British airplane (G-AMSR). A clerk marks a British European Airways bulletin board listing the number of refugees who left the area on March 8th, 1953.
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