A film titled 'Big four parley-West bars Red China in European Peace Talks'. United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrives at the West Berlin airport for European Peace Talks. French foreign minister George Bidault and British representative Anthony Eden also arrive in Berlin. Venue for the talks, Allied Control Council is seen.
Holiday vendors and shop keepers in Berlin selling wares and gifts to shoppers at Christmas time, 1919. A man buys a wooden clapping toy from a boy street vendor. A fruit vendor sells fruits from his wooden cart. Germans lined up to buy Christmas trees from a vendor beside a public square area. Pedestrians fill the sidewalks, passing by tents with holiday vendors, as seen from elevated position in a moving vehicle traveling on a main street in Berlin. Happy children and adults seen shopping and walking in the crowd. Children and adults gather at a store window that sells toys, and watch a vendor showing a toy zeppelin that flies back and forth, and a wind-up, mechanical car toy.
German crowd assembles in Lustgarten during World War 1 period. Scene shifts to Deutsches Stadion or "German Stadium" (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) in Berlin, where marchers in traditional uniforms, carry flags of various German constituent territories, around the perimeter of the field. They pause to lower the flags in salute. Next, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, Chief of the German General Staff, and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, lead a procession of German officers and officials, from near the main building in the stands. One of their group carries a sign reading: "1.G.I.D."
Ballot room during Berlin Elections. Mayor Walther Schreiber casts his vote. Newsmen record the event. Statistical data shows results so far. Berlin elections oust Mayor Walter Schreiber as the Social Democrats win. Communists poll only 2%.
The Russians capture the city of Berlin during World War II. A railroad station, bridges, monuments, public buildings and churches are ruined in Berlin. Officers and men of German Army are taken as prisoners by the Soviet army. 'Kapitulieren ?' (surrender under agreed conditions) written on a wall. White surrender flags hang from the windows of the same building which featured swastika banners. German prisoners and Russian officers on the streets.
Interrogation of a German officer by Russian forces after the capture of Berlin at the end of World War II in Europe. The German officer is interrogated by a Russian officer at a desk. The German officer points out positions on a map. He also demonstrates the shaking hand or tremor of hand seen in Hitler. Russian officers examine charred bodies in Berlin. A possible Hitler doppelgänger or body double is among the dead.
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