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English and French Armies move towards the Ruhr Area to meet the German advance during World War II.

The first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. The main part of the Battle of France campaign beginning 10 May 1940. Massed German troops lined up in Berlin. Hundreds of young soldiers in uniform. Close-ups of some soldiers' faces. An animated map depicts the movement of the English and French Armies across the French city of Lille towards the Ruhr Area in Germany. Allied vehicles move to meet the German advance. British Expeditionary Force troops, French, Belgian, Dutch, and colonial troops move to the front in railroad train cars, trucks, and on foot. Allied soldiers on motorbikes on a street. Soldiers stand guard at a check post. Tanks, military trucks and motorbikes cross the check post. The convoy moves along. Troops in a train. Tanks on the streets. Soldiers on tanks. Hundreds of Allied French and British soldiers march ahead in France. Soldiers man artillery and guns. Soldiers use detonators to set off explosions.

Date: 1940, May 10
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021741
End of World War 2 in Germany, the Four-power occupation of Germany after World War II, and the Berlin Airlift

Allied tank and tank destroyer firing and Allied infantry in Germany during World War 2. British, American, and Soviet troops escorting German Prisoners of war at the end of the War. Animated map shows line where U.S. and Russian troops met.and zones of occupation in Germany and Berlin. It depicts routs of access into the Soviet zone of Berlin View from a vehicle driving through utterly destroyed part of Germany in 1945 with rubble and ruin of many buildings seen. German citizens cooking on outdoor fire in a city street, and trying to clear some debris of destroyed buildings by hand and using buckets in a "bucket brigade." Bus service being restored and German citizens boarding. Vehicle traffic moving with a German police officer directing. Doctors perform physical examination of a German boy as a group of German boys wait in queue for examination. Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, with U.S. President, Harry Truman, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, at the Potsdam Conference. Children receiving soup at a school in Berlin. Animated map shows routes through the Soviet occupation zone, used by Western Allies, to supply essential food and supplies through the Soviet zone of occupation to sustain West Berlin residents. It then depicts Soviet action blockading the road and rail routes to isolate West Berlin. Views of empty roads, rails, and canals. A DC-3 (US Air Force C-47) transport aircraft taking off. Men loading supplies on aircraft for delivery to West Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. A British Short S.25 Sunderland flying boat carrying cargo in the Berlin Airlift. Troops carrying supplies for airlift. A British Avro York transport aircraft taking off. A warehouse filled with barrels for Berlin. View from overflying airplane. Trucks resuming travel to Berlin after the Soviets finally lift the 9-month blockade. Normal supplies of food seen again, in West Berlin shops. Vehicle stopped at a checkpoint. Sign warning that: "You are leaving the American Sector." and similar ones at the French and British sector borders. Old road sign pointing to Potsdam, beside another sign warning of entering the Russian zone. Traffic moving between East and West Berlin.

Date: 1949
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034239
Crowds cheer as Hitler is driven through the streets of Berlin on his return after conquering France during World War II.

Fuhrer Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Hitler returns to Germany after conquering France. In a Wehrmacht victory parade, crowds cheer as Hitler is driven through the streets of Berlin. Hitler in a convertible. He waves to the crowd gathered on either side of the streets. Nazi German soldiers salute Hitler while civilians cheer for the dictator. Other Nazi officers follow in several cars. Hitler waves, salutes and acknowledges the crowd. A huge crowd gathered outside a building. The Fuhrer arrives and greets the troops. Men, women and children wave to Hitler. The Swastika flag is raised on the building roof. SS troops control the unmanageable crowds. Hitler, Luftwaffe commander Genral Hermann Goring and other Nazi officers survey the huge crowds from the building balcony. Hitler and Goring salute the crowds. Shouting and cheering women and children greet Hitler.

Date: 1940, July 18
Duration: 5 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021937
Aerial views of important monuments and buildings in Berlin, Germany, eight years after end of World War 2.

Aerial views of Berlin, Germany, 8 years after the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of wrecked buildings and cleared areas in Berlin. View of the Soviet War Memorial, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor, the 1870 monument, a huge bunker, Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany), the destroyed belltower of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany), the Funkturm Berlin in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Hammarskjöldpl., 14055 Berlin, Germany), and the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany).

Date: 1953, June
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065729
East German residents are seen escaping to West Berlin, and Berlin wall is built, during Berlin Crisis of 1961

Scenes from the Berlin Crisis in 1961. Scene of a street in East Berlin, Germany. A man stands on the West side of Berlin, taking a photograph of East Berlin. A policeman disturbs and blocks him with a mirror. People of East Berlin go with their few possessions escaping to West Berlin. Military trucks parked on East Berlin side. People wave goodbye with their handkerchiefs. A young man loads his luggage in a truck. People on the East Berlin side with their possessions. An East German policeman reflects with a mirror to prevent cameras from recording the escape attempts. People on the West Berlin side watch a water hose sprayed at them to deter onlookers. A man sits on a truck and clicks photos as water is sprayed on him and the truck is forced to move on. Smoke or tear gas bomb comes from East Berlin side and men throw them back. Smoke seen everywhere. Crowds in Ruppiner Strasse. The escape of Frieda Schulz is seen from her apartment building at the border, on Bernauer Strasse. She is seen hanging from a window, still held on her arm from above by an East German official, until the receiving West German crowd from below pulls on her leg hard enough to free her, and she falls into a waiting net. Another woman is seen preparing to leap from a fifth-floor window. She leaps (not seen) and is caught by firemen with a waiting net. Next, her husband is seen pushing some baggage through the window with valuables, and then he is seen leaping from the window into a waiting net held by firemen on the West Berlin side. Work goes on for building the Berlin Wall. Giant bulldozer drops dirt on ground as it razes home along the border of the Berlin Wall, and as a wide ditch is built to prevent escape by vehicle. People cut hole in barbed wire and are seen escaping to the West German side. Policemen and others help them as they get through. East Berlin police arrive and stop more people from escaping. A man and two young women are seen after they successfully escape through the barbed wire to West Berlin side.

Date: 1961, September
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034204
Signing of Military-Economic Alliance by Japan and Germany in Berlin, Germany during World War II.

Military-Economic Alliance signed by Germany and Japan in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Japanese and German diplomats arrive by train. German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and others arrive. The interiors of a building showing a crowd. The Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop signs the agreement.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675074572