United States occupation of Berlin, Germany after World War II. U.S. aircraft taxis at airport in Berlin. U.S. General Omar Bradley deplanes and being greeted by U.S. Commander-General First Airborne Army of Berlin District Major General Floyd Parks and other officers. Generals Parks and Bradley inspect the bomb damage in the city.
A man talking at the Free University of Berlin (Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18, 14195 Berlin, Germany) in West Berlin. Students walking in the snow-covered campus. A group of men and a couple walking out of a modern building. Students inside a campus building. A sign in German reads “SELBSTANZEIGEN Teilnahme an demonstrationen soll 5 monate kosten solidarität mit Fritz! Steine in die muhlen der JUSTIZ” (“SELF REPORT Participation in demonstrations should cost 5 months Solidarity with Fritz! Stones in the mill of JUSTICE”). German students talking about their support for detained German activist Fritz Teufel.
German figure skater Lydia Veicht performs at the Berlin Sportspalast in Berlin, Germany. The Berlin Sportspalast stadium is seen without a roof after sustaining damage from Allied bombings in World War II. The steel skeleton of the roof supports is visible. The stadium seating is filled with spectators dressed in warm clothing. Ice skater Lydia Veicht gracefully spins and jumps on ice. A German soldier watches the show with his child. Some of the audience include German soldiers in uniform. Women and men applaud the performance. A man and a woman perform on ice. Soldiers huddled together in a blanket as they watch. A group of figure skaters in short Dirndl-inspired costumes perform a dance on ice.
East German civilians receive free food in Germany. Cargo ship, the American Inventor, at a pier in Hamburg with surplus food from America for starving East Germany. A pallet of food cartons is hoisted out of a hold. An official hands a box to a workman. Thousands of people wait for their turn to get food in queues in West Berlin, ignoring threats of reprisal from the communist government of East Berlin. In West Berlin, volunteers get food packages ready including lard, flour, condensed milk, beans, and peas. Women pick up their allotments and put them in shopping bags. A crowd milling around in front of buildings, with many camping overnight and waiting their turn to get food having come from as far away as the border with Czechoslovakia and the Baltic Coast.
Crowd of people on the street during German Revolution at conclusion of World War I. Soldiers carrying a howitzer and trying to position it in front of the Kaiser's palace (Also called Kaiser-Wilhelm Palais or Altes Palais). Group of soldiers installing a howitzer inside the palace with the help of ladder. Huge crowd of cheerful people celebrating the proclamation of a Republic Germany shortly after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Film opens showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, seated in a carriage outside a building covered with scaffolding. He is wearing a fur-collared great coat and a plumed hat. Several flags are decorated poles behind the carriage. His uncle, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, steps into the carriage. British King Edward VI is wearing an overcoat and top hat. As Edward VI settles into his seat, an attendant cover both men with a carriage robe. As the carriage pulls away, an honor guard in formation at attention is seen in the background. The carriage carrying the Kaiser and the King is seen ahead of another one in which a woman is riding, accompanied by a man in top hat and a military officer in uniform. Local spectators stand at the side of road and on hills overlooking the roadway. A third carriage, drawn by a pair of white horses, carries a woman accompanied by a man in a top hat and a military officer in an elaborate plumed hat. A fourth carriage follows with a military officer and two statesmen in top hats. Film ends as horses pulling another carriage.
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