Springboard diving event for women at 1936 Berlin Olympics, Germany. Participants from various nations including Japan, United States, and Germany dive from a springboard into the pool as crowd cheers them on. Divers shown include Olga Jensch-Jordan from Germany, Dorothy Poynton-Hill from the United States, Gerda Daumerlang of Germany, Marjorie Gestring of the United States, Masayo Osawa of Japan. United States athletes win Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Winners Marjorie Gestring, Peggy Rawls, and Dorothy Poynton-Hill are shown celebrating and signing autographs.
Destruction of the Reichstag dome in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, which had been partially destroyed in World War 2. View of the Soviet War Memorial (Straße des 17. Juni 10623 Berlin) in the British zone of Berlin. The old Reichstag Building in the background. Incendiaries, tied to metal girders of the 50-ton dome, ignite and burn away the structure. Flames arise as the structure burns and collapses. A cameraman films people and cars moving across the street in front of the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor).
Scenes of Berlin, Germany before World War I. View of the Berlin skyline and surrounding areas. Smoke arises from the chimney. Pedestrians in Friedrichstrasse. Soldiers march with rifles on the road. Outer view of a building. Two women walk on the Unter den Linden and two men walk past them. People walk in the Lustgarten. The equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III is seen in Lustgarten (Am Lustgarten 1 10178 Berlin)
A public meeting in Berlin, Germany. German policemen make a human chain to control a large crowd at the public meeting. People gather outside the Reichstag building. The Bismarck Memorial and the Berlin Victory Column or the Siegessäule (Großer Stern 1 10557 Berlin) in the background. A dignitary is seated at the podium.
German civilians wait in a line to board a bus in Berlin, Germany. Children at a doorway. Civilians move furniture from a bomb-damaged building after the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Men park the furniture loaded truck in front of a building. A damaged church due to bombing in Berlin. A cement revetment with a cross at the entrance of the church.
Aftermath of World War 2, in Berlin, Germany. Remains of a 12.8 Cm German anti-aircraft gun atop the Flak tower at the Berlin zoo. The Berlin Victory Column, in the center of the Tiergarten circle, is visible beyond trees of the park in background. Views of two rooftop conveyers for bringing shells up to the gunners. Doors open to reveal 12.8 Cm shells in place where they would be delivered to the gun crews. Spent shells laying on the rooftop, and twin barrels of 20mm anti-aircraft gun in background
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