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Travel by air, rail, and bus in Germany, circa 1936
Air and rail travel in Germany before World War II. View of snow-covered mountains and clouds. Flying above them is a German Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 trimotor passenger airplane. It is named "Hans Wende" and displays registration "D-ADER" on its fuselage, and a swastika on its tail. Closeup of the forward part of the aircraft. View of passengers inside the cabin, enjoying the views out their windows. Body of water below. A passenger lights a cigar, and smokes. Another swings a typewriter down from the back of seat in front of her and prepares to type something. Views out plane's window behind left wing showing flaps slightly extended and as plane banks in right turn. Quick pan across copilot's position and back, showing corrugated metal on right wing. The city of Berlin is seen below. Passengers preparing to land. Aerial views of pre-war city of Berlin, from behind right wing, as aircraft descends to land. "Berlin" spelled out in large letters on ground at the airport, visible from the air. Aerial view of various buildings and landmarks, including the Berliner Dom (largest church in the city) seen below. The Lustgarten, two bridges leading to the Unter Den Linden boulevard below, with cars moving on it. The Zeughaus (Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin) and other buildings are seen along Unter Den Linden. As the aircraft passes over the Brandenburg Gate and forested park, below, the scene shifts to a zoom-in on the gate and transitions to a ground view of it with cars driving through the gate. Closeup of the “Quadriga” statue atop the gate, depicting the goddess of victory driving a chariot pulled by four horses. Camera moves through the gate and shows policemen, in white uniforms, directing traffic, including double-decker buses. Brief glimpse of the Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern 1, 10557 Berlin, Germany) on the Königsplatz across from the Reichstag. Pedestrians walking and trams passing along the street. Sightseeing bus carrying passengers along the road. View of the passengers inside the moving bus and the guide explaining the sights and landmarks of Berlin. They pass the Neue Wache war memorial. Scene shifts to a railroad train traveling in the city and rising up to an elevated track that passes through a building. View as the train approaches and passes through an elevated station. Brief view of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (suspended railway). View of a German high-speed passenger train seen as it passes a bridge. Passengers relaxing inside the train. Some are eating and drinking. Several views of trains moving at high speed. Train signals in action along the railways.
German surrender in WWII: Arrival of delegations at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, tour through destroyed Berlin
Flags of Allied nations hoisted by soldiers at a ceremony at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Military Generals of England and the United States descend from a plane. Lord Tedder and United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shake hands and talk with Russian officers including Marshal Sokolovsky. German Field Marshal Keitel and others in his delegation arrive at the airport. Military band plays and Russian honor guard marches as British, American, and Soviet officials observe, while Keitel and his staff consult over paperwork in a car. Motorcade drives through ruined city of Berlin. Many views of various damaged and destroyed buildings and bridges filmed from a moving vehicle in the motorcade. Rubble all over the city roads and citizens moving about the streets, some observing the motorcade. Views of the building in Karlshorst, in a suburb of Berlin, where signing of the Nazi surrender takes place. Views of the Meeting hall (converted from a mess hall) before the signing . Views of the various military officials in the building before the signing of the surrender. Excerpt from Japanese newsreel. (World War II period).
Views of Americans in West Berlin; then scenes of East Berlin soldiers in a parade in East Germany
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.
German surrender scenes and views from wrecked German cities at end of World War 2
Documentary titled 'Deutschland Erwache' recounts Germany's wartime experiences. Nazi Swastika emblem is blown up on top of the Zeppelintribüne at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg in 1945 by the U.S. Army. Following explosion, the pieces from the destroyed emblem fall from the sky. Montage shows: German Prisoners Of War (POWs) marching; Ratification of the German surrender documents (from surrender two days earlier at Reims) held at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany on May 9, 1945. German officers present include Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff from the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. They are seen entering room and signing documents. View of Keitel signing the surrender document. Soviet Russian General looking at surrender documents. General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and others shown in brief glimpses. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Aerial views of heavily bomb-damaged cities in Germany, including wrecked German cities of Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. View of Brandenburg gate in background and rubble of bombing in foreground as two people carry a stretcher down the street. A wrecked street sign for the Unter Den Linden lies on the ground partially covered in mud. Ground level views of smoking ruined buildings in Berlin and a few German citizens walking on the streets. Views of dead German soldiers on a battlefield. German soldiers helping to carry and tend to wounded and bandaged German soldiers. Large group of German citizens gathered in a public square.
Contrasting views of German civilians in Berlin before and after Soviet takeover in 1945 Battle of Berlin.
Film opens showing two German women holding a basket of flowers, and scattering them on pavement in advance of a German military parade of Panzer III tanks, through a residential area of Berlin, Germany in World War 2. German civilian spectators line both sides of the road. Women throw flowers at the passing tanks, each of which has a German soldier standing in it dressed in a special uniform with a sash, and holding a flag. Brief closeup of older man and woman standing by a German soldier in uniform. Crowd occupies a town square and watch as the tanks pass them. Closeup of an old man watching the tanks. Camera pans to an open windows of a building where many very young children watch the parade. View from high vantage point showing long line of tanks and sidewalks filled with enthusiastic spectators. Closeup of the crowd rendering the Nazi salute. Adolf Hitler seen standing hatless, with arms crossed, in an open vehicle with two guards and a flag behind him. Another closeup of arms being raised in Nazi salute by everyone in the crowd. Abrupt change of scene to Berlin after its capture by Soviet forces late in World War 2 following the Battle of Berlin. View from high above of German civilians massed in a crowd where Soviet soldiers are distributing loaves of bread to German citiznes. Closeup of German civilians struggling to get some. A Soviet woman soldier taking bread from a truck for distribution. German civilians standing on a sidewalk next to a Soviet army truck. Closeup of a Soviet army woman soldier distributing blocks of food from the truck to civilians in food relief effort. Another Soviet woman officer stands overlooking the crowd. Closeup of German woman holding a soft straw shopping bag. Soup kitchen or soup line scene where a Soviet soldier is using a large, long handled ladle to put soup from a large pail into an old woman's pot. An old woman walking slowly along a street, where fires are burning
People in the U.S. listen as President Truman speaks during the United States flag raising ceremony in Berlin at end of World War 2
Filmed shortly before the Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. A view of the devastated city of Berlin shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe. Aerial views of bomb damaged Berlin and point of view shots from a moving car passing destruction, rubble, and skeletons of buildings from bomb damage. U.S. President Harry Truman surveying the damage from an open car, and view of his car approaching the Brandenburg Gate and driving on the Unter den Linden. Three flag towers each decorated at the base with an image of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. U.S. President Harry S. Truman is riding through Berlin with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov. Flashback shows German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler parading in Berlin. People crowd on either side of a street to cheer. Close up back and side profile view of Hitler as he stands in a moving car waving to the crowd. Hitler speaking at a Nazi Rally, forcefully and animated, about Germany wiping out inferior races, and decrying America's society of mixed people, saying that it has a ridiculous notion of equality and freedom that cannot stand up against Germany. The German people in the hall applaud. Truman speaks into a microphone in Germany after the war. U.S. delegates stand in the background. A radio tower. A U.S. military serviceman operating controls for the radio broadcast. People in the U.S. listen to President Truman speaking from a Berlin Radio Station. A hand on a typewriter. People of the United States in groups listening to radio: Men gathered at a city store listening to the radio speech; a woman typist listening to the radio beside her typewriter; men in a rural general store gathered around a radio near a wood stove; farmers listening to a radio; office workers gathered around a radio; a family in a living room listens to the radio; group of U.S. Army soldiers gathered to listen to the radio . Truman speaking on the grounds of the United States Group Control Council Headquarters in Berlin. He is in a courtyard that had been the home of the German Air Defense for Berlin. An honor guard from Company 'E' of the 41st Infantry is present, along with Secretary Stimpson, Assistant Secretary McCloy, and Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Clay, and Bradley. Soldiers stand in formation in the background. He speaks about peace in the world during the ceremony raising the United States flag over the U.S. controlled area of Berlin. His words included the statement, "Let's not forget that we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind. We're not fighting for conquest."
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