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Operation Kinderlift , run by U.S. Air Forces Europe and Red Cross, flies children from Berlin to West Germany for vacations

Operation Kinderlift, of United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE) and the Red Cross, that flies German children from Berlin for summer vacations in West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany). U.S. military buses arrive at Tempelhof airdrome, Berlin, carrying children and their parents. They leave buses and assemble to hear remarks from John J. McCloy, United States High Commissioner for Germany, and from USAF Colonel Joseph G. Manyo, Director of Kinderlift II. Each child wears an identification tag reading: "Kinderluftbrucke." They are escorted to C-47 transport aircraft by U.S. Air Force and Red Cross personnel. Their parents and relatives wave goodbye to them. View showing children seated inside a C-47 airplane. The aircraft arriving at Rhein Main Air field, Frankfurt, and Red Cross personnel and U.S. airmen, helping children off the airplane. Children running from a bus, and then in a dining hall, having a snack, including Pepsi Cola, in bottles. Children walking into a camp, carrying their luggage. A sign at the entrance reads: " JUGENDLAGER, KLEIN-BERLIN, HERZUCH WILLKOMMEN." Children eating dinner in dining hall at the camp.

Date: 1953, July 6
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032392
Policemen holding the coffin of West Berlin Mayor, Dr. Ernst Renter during his funeral in West Berlin, Germany.

Police parade during the funeral of West Berlin Mayor, Dr. Ernst Renter in West Berlin, Germany. Large crowd gather. Policemen holding the coffin. A man addressing. Family members seated on chairs.

Date: 1953, October 5
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035499
East German refugees in Marienfeld Refugee Reception Center in West Berlin, and scenes of divided East and West Berlin.

During mounting Berlin Crisis, view of map of Germany with separated East and West Germany. East Berlin refugees gathered and on streets with their luggage at Marienfeld Refugee Reception Center in West Berlin. They are among the last to escape East Berlin before the Soviets close the border. Refugees in queue to be processed entering West Berlin. Old woman refugee smiles as she helps a young boy drink from a cup. Refugees at airport with their children to be flown to other cities in West Germany. They board plane and it takes off. People at railway station to see off their relatives as they flee East Germany. East German soldiers digging emplacements in roadway near Brandenburg Gate to erect blockade (the beginning of what became the Berlin Wall). They unload a truck filled with poles. Soldiers wire the border. People watch soldiers running barbed wire enclosing East Berlin territory; the beginning of the Berlin Wall. Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, with others on street. Communist soldiers on the closed border. A Russian soldier on the East side of the road divided with barbed wire fence. Tanks and people on road.

Date: 1961, August
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034192
Berlin Germany in the first hundred days of Soviet Blockade during the Cold War

Film opens showing Russian Bear covered by iron gate and slate reading 100 days Blockade. Camera pans over war-damaged areas of the city of Berlin, Germany. Narrator refers to the Berlin Airlift by the Allies and the Berlin residents not giving up. Views of several buildings undamaged by World War 2, including Kammergericht, the Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Streets crowded by pedestrians going about ordinary business in Berlin. Among them is seen a German soldier, missing a leg and using a crutch. Some Berlin industry activity is seen in a factory where welders are at work. Blockade fences are seen separating the Soviet zone of east Berlin from the allied sectors of West Berlin. Trams are seen that cannot travel between the zones. A person trying to use a gas stove to cook, but has no gas pressure. The city grows dark at night due to electricity shortages, resulting in blackout conditions. Berliners trying to manage simple things at home such as exercising on a fixed bicycle. A man planting a garden in sight of the Brandenburg Gate, at the boundary of the Soviet zone. A police officer using a radio in an automobile in the free part of the city. View of the City Council meeting in West Berlin. This is contrasted with view of East Berlin where members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) backed by the Soviet authorities are seen meeting in a separate city council of East Berlin, not long before the formal founding of East Germany in 1949. Next, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Mayor of West Berlin, addresses the West Berlin City Council.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675020798
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.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037559
U.S. soldiers patrol the West Berlin border and look into East Berlin through binoculars in Germany.

Aerial view of monuments and buildings in West Berlin including the Victory Column (Siegessäule Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany) and the war damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany). Street view of cars and buildings near Kurfürstendamm. View of the Brandenburg Gate obstructed by the Berlin Wall. U.S. Army soldiers patrol the West Berlin border in Germany. American soldiers of Berlin Brigade in a Jeep as they move past Charlie Checkpoint. The jeep moves along the Berlin wall as soldiers patrol the borders of West Berlin. Point of view (POV) shot from jeep as it passes immediately beside the Berlin Wall. Soldiers get out of the jeep and climb up an observation tower. They view East Germany through binoculars. Views of Berlin Wall and barricades and obstacles in the "death strip" area beyond the wall. The U.S. Army soldiers carry M-60 machine guns. They reenter the jeep and continue their patrol. Views of graffiti painted on the Berlin Wall. A sign, "You are leaving the American Sector" in Checkpoint Charlie.

Date: 1980, March 18
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058827