Former United States Vice President Richard Nixon visits West Berlin. View of Berlin Wall. Richard Nixon with his family reaches at Checkpoint Charlie (Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in West Berlin. Signs in Checkpoint Charlie saying, “ALLIED CHECKPOINT” AND “U.S. ARMY CHECKPOINT CHARLIE”. Former Vice President Nixon is joined by his family, Mrs. Pat Nixon and daughters Patricia “Tricia” and Julie. Then Nixon visits the East Berlin Wall with his family. Nixon and his family at the Preview stand. Nixon waves at East Berliners. View of East Berlin beyond the Berlin Wall. Close view of Nixon. The Union-Verlag (Charlottenstrasse 79, DDR-1080 Berlin), a publishing house of the East German Christian Democratic Union of Germany (East CDU) bloc party, can be seen on the other side of the Berlin Wall.
The Freedom bell of West Berlin is seen ringing. The Brandenburg Gate from behind barbed wires. The Berlin Wall crossing and blocking Bernauer Straße. It appears to be under construction with wooden forms in places. It is covered with obstacles and barbed wire. Anti-tank obstacles inside the inner and outer walls of the Berlin Wall. The Church of the Reconciliation, next to the Berlin wall on Beinauer Street. Berlin street sign “Potsdamer Platz”. Anti-tank barriers behind barbed wires in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. A small sign reads “Ida Siekmann”, the first casualty at the Berlin Wall. Bricked up windows of a building in Bernauer Straße 48. United States flag atop a flagpole in the US Army checkpoint, popularly known as Checkpoint Charlie, in West Berlin. A sign board outside a building reads: 'US Army Check Point'. Checkpoint Charlie seen from above. U.S. soldiers aboard a jeep passing on the street. Memorial services held by West Berlin mayor Wiily Brandt for the people who died attempting to cross the wall in Bernauer Straße. People march to protest against the Berlin wall and carry a cross with the words 'Wir Klagen An' which mean 'We Accuse' in English. Crowd gathered at the wall throwing rocks in protest.
Life of Americans in enclave in West Berlin. American children at United States Army community school in West Berlin. American music being played on radio as youth dance to rock and roll tunes. American soldiers on duty outside the United States Headquarters in West Berlin. In East Berlin soldiers including Russian comrades march and salute. Nikita Khrushchev arrives at an airport in Berlin and greets East German leader Walter Ulbricht with an embrace and hand shake. East Berliners move as refugees to refugee camps in the western half of Berlin, to escape East German communist rule. Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders pounding fists on a table at a diplomatic gathering.
Unrest in Berlin, East Germany. A large crowd gathers to demonstrate against East German government. A banner carried by some demonstrators calls for free elections. Armed Stasi watch the demonstrators. Demonstrators burn banners and posters and damage public property. People stands on roofs of houses and watch the demonstrations. Armed East German police and some Soviet soldiers watch the demonstrators from their headquarters. Demonstrators tear up and burn signs and start a bonfire. East German Stasi reinforce the checkpoint between the Soviet and American sectors of Berlin. A uniformed Berlin police officer, wearing traditional hat, assists a person who was manhandled by the mob. A building set afire by the demonstrators. View from West Berlin of mob in East Berlin. Sign reads: "You are leaving the American Sector."
German officers wait at train station in Berlin during World War 2. A train arrives. Soldiers on the train. Fuhrer of Germany Adolf Hitler greets President Jozef Tiso and Minister Vojtech Tuka of Slovakia as they exit the railroad train. The two guests are lead to the waiting motorcade. Adolf Hitler, the President and Minister get into the cars and depart.
Views from a moving vehicle driving on streets of Berlin, Germany, right after end of hostilities, in World War 2. Extreme damage and destruction of buildings from Allied bombing is evident. Scene is dominated by hollow shells of buildings without roofs. A modern apartment house with no windows and only its facade partially intact. A damaged, but still standing, government building. German civilians engaged in cleanup and rebuilding.
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