The city of Berlin, Germany before World War II destruction. Views of tall buildings and busy streets. View from atop the Brandenburg Gate, looking down over the city. Men and women busy in their daily routine. Buses, Pedestrians, bicycles, cars along roads with many shops. A man cleans glass windows in a tall building overlooking Berliner Dom or Berlin Cathedral. Views from moving bus. Sign "Alexanderplatz" beneath elevated rail line in Alexanderplatz. Officer directing traffic helps a child to cross the road and instructs an old lady about directions. Two workers work up high in a tall building under construction. Trams pass through the rail tracks. Text "R W Keil Berlin" written on the tram. A U-Bahn train crosses the Oberbaumbrucke. Clip contains brief moments of audio heard at several of the scenes.
An American horse platoon in West Berlin. United States soldiers on horseback along the Budapester Strasse in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. The ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany) is seen on the background. The American platoon crosses the Herkulesbrücke (“Hercules bridge” in English) near Lützowplatz over the Landwehrkanal in Schöneberger Vorstadt (present day part of the Tiergarten district) in Berlin. Buildings in Lützowplatz are destroyed. Soldiers and civilians crossing the bridge during a rainy day. People using umbrellas as they cross the bridge. A car crosses the bridge. People walking around destroyed buildings in Lützowplatz.
U.S. Military Police car parked in front of United States Army Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse along Berlin Wall in West Berlin, Germany. A van from AFN ( American Forces Network) Berlin pulls up at the checkpoint. Army reporter Specialist Ted Shrady comes out to broadcast from Checkpoint Charlie. He stands on street and speaks over microphone about the weather conditions in Berlin.
Points of interest in Berlin, Germany. Berlin Bear statue along Autobahn. Car passes on the street. A sign board on right reads: 'You are now entering the U.S. sector of Berlin'. Other sign boards read: 'You are leaving the American sector' and 'You are entering Soviet zone'. The heating plant for Berlin area. Modern apartment buildings with channel in the foreground. Motorboat on canal. Coal pile and smoke stacks in the background.
Aftermath of World War 2 in Berlin, Germany. Aerial views of bomb damage caused to the buildings in the city of Berlin including Reichstag and Tiergarden. Damage caused to Potsdamer railroad station (Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof), Brandenburg Gate and damge to other railroad stations as a result of Allied bombings during World War II. Anhalter railroad station (Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof) and marshaling yards in its vicinity.
Damage in Berlin after the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in the background. Wrecked, burnt vehicles in the middle of the Unter den Linden, a boulevard in Berlin.
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