A motorcade for United States President John F. Kennedy passes crowded Hainerberg Circle in Wiesbaden, Germany. Photographers take photos of President Kennedy and his aides. President Kennedy shakes hands with United States Air Force officers and crew during his visit. President Kennedy speaks with Commander of United States Air Forces in Europe, General Truman H. Landon. President Kennedy greets and shakes hands with crowd of German civilians from behind fence. Honor guards salute the president and General Landon. President Kennedy and General Landon board Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000).
United States Air Force aircraft perform an airshow upon the departure of United States President John F. Kennedy at the Wiesbaden Air Base Operations in Wiesbaden, Germany. President Kennedy and of United States Air Forces in Europe General Truman H. Landon inspect United States Air Force officers and crew and greet spectators. General Landon salutes as he stands beside President Kennedy. President Kennedy greets the military band playing music. President Kennedy and General Landon board Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000). Crewmen pushing air stair back before departure. Sign reads “Headquarters 7101st Air Base Wing Wiesbaden Air Base”.
Lieutenant General Ben Lear, Major General Manton S Eddy and other officers exit the Merkers Mines in Germany. Major General Eddy dusts off his shoes. The men drive to another location among the industrial warehouses of the mines. They enter a warehouse. Views of piles of gold in bags labeled "Reichsbank" as well as boxes of currency and suitcases.
Eva Braun and several other women on terrace of Adolf Hitler's residence at Berghof in Germany, during World War 2. Hitler speaks to Nazi German officers. Another official arrives, Hitler greets the official and speaks to women. A woman covers her face with her hand.
From a Russian feature film "Meeting on the Elbe" (dubbed in Korean). Reenactment depicts meeting of the American 69th Infantry division and Russian soldiers at the River Elbe near Torgau Germany on April 25 and April 26, 1945. Reenactment : An American soldier meets a Russian soldier on the shore of Elbe river and the soldiers talk. A tank behind the soldiers. The soldiers sit down and the American soldier takes out a dollar note and scribbles on the note. A bridge over the River Elbe as the raised spans meet and come into place. The Russian troops stand in a line on the bridge. Two of the soldiers holding flags. A banner being displayed on the bridge across the river. An American officer and a Russian officer shake hands. The American officer reviews the troops. The band plays. The soldiers stand in a line. The officers salute and walk past the troops. The American soldier and the Russian soldier on the shore of the river. The officers salute. American tanks with troops move. The American officer views the soldiers through binoculars. Soldiers standing behind the American officer. The officers converse looking at a document. An American officer in a room inside a building. A crowd outside the building. The officer looks at the crowd through the window of the building. Another officer enters the room and approaches the American officer. The American officer hands over a symbolic key to the other officer and both men converse.
German civilians watch the arrival of United States Army 4th Division Jeeps and vehicles in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany during World War II. Civilians tearing down roadblock. German civilian men and boys form in a line and pass rocks from roadblock down the line (like a bucket brigade), piling them at side of the road. German boy smiles. One German man smokes a pipe. U.S. Army Jeeps and an M4 tractor towing 155mm gun past the roadblock and through the village streets. German civilians clearing the road for United States Army.
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