The signing of the Military-Economic Alliance or Tripartite Pact by Germany, Italy and Japan in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, during World War II. Hitler welcomes delegates at the signing of the Germany-Italy-Japan alliance. A group of diplomats led by Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop, Italian Minster of Foreign Affairs Count Galeazzo Ciano and Japanese delegates strides down a long, wide corridor. Same men come into a conference room. Ciano stands at a conference table. The others file in. A close of German officers. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler comes into the room, salutes and is saluted. Hitler approaches Ciano, shakes hand, then approaches Japanese delegates. Hitler, Ciano and Japanese career diplomat Saburo Kurusu at the table with their aides standing behind the envoys. Ribbentrop signs the document followed by Ciano and Kurusu. Hitler and the delegates leave the table. Hitler at the Reich Chancellery window receives cheers of a crowd. Hitler salutes at the window and leaves the balcony.
Springboard diving event for women at 1936 Berlin Olympics, Germany. Participants from various nations including Japan, United States, and Germany dive from a springboard into the pool as crowd cheers them on. Divers shown include Olga Jensch-Jordan from Germany, Dorothy Poynton-Hill from the United States, Gerda Daumerlang of Germany, Marjorie Gestring of the United States, Masayo Osawa of Japan. United States athletes win Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Winners Marjorie Gestring, Peggy Rawls, and Dorothy Poynton-Hill are shown celebrating and signing autographs.
Destruction of the Reichstag dome in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, which had been partially destroyed in World War 2. View of the Soviet War Memorial (Straße des 17. Juni 10623 Berlin) in the British zone of Berlin. The old Reichstag Building in the background. Incendiaries, tied to metal girders of the 50-ton dome, ignite and burn away the structure. Flames arise as the structure burns and collapses. A cameraman films people and cars moving across the street in front of the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor).
Scenes of Berlin, Germany before World War I. View of the Berlin skyline and surrounding areas. Smoke arises from the chimney. Pedestrians in Friedrichstrasse. Soldiers march with rifles on the road. Outer view of a building. Two women walk on the Unter den Linden and two men walk past them. People walk in the Lustgarten. The equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III is seen in Lustgarten (Am Lustgarten 1 10178 Berlin)
A public meeting in Berlin, Germany. German policemen make a human chain to control a large crowd at the public meeting. People gather outside the Reichstag building. The Bismarck Memorial and the Berlin Victory Column or the Siegessäule (Großer Stern 1 10557 Berlin) in the background. A dignitary is seated at the podium.
German civilians wait in a line to board a bus in Berlin, Germany. Children at a doorway. Civilians move furniture from a bomb-damaged building after the Battle of Berlin in World War II. Men park the furniture loaded truck in front of a building. A damaged church due to bombing in Berlin. A cement revetment with a cross at the entrance of the church.
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