East Berlin Military trucks park at and block the Brandenburg Gate and passage between East and West Berlin in Germany. Communist Army forces in trucks and tanks. East German Army officer looks through binoculars. East German forces march and align on the street at the Brandenburg Gate. They spray with water cannon at the observers on the West Berlin side. In West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt addresses a large crowd about the growing tensions and closure of the border.
Communist threat to Berlin, Germany as the Soviet Union presses for a unified Communist Berlin. Traffic signal man demonstrates hand signals on street in West Berlin. View of citizens in West Berlin shopping, engaging in commerce, and going to and from work among newly constructed buildings, improved roads, and wearing new fashions. Sign near the Brandenburg Gate. Contrast is made with East Berlin, East Germany where buildings still in ruin from World War II are shown, including on the famous Unter den Linden Boulevard. Communist East German troops march on road. Woman enters a building and writes on a note pad. East German workers dig with spades at a construction site. The Western Powers get out of free Berlin uniting with the East Berlin under communist rule. Social and economic differences seen contrasting communist versus capitalist systems in Berlin. A woman working alongside men at a construction site.
During Berlin Crisis, Russian staff car drives across border. West Berliners run after it. United States Army tour buses arriving into the Western sector. M-48 tank leaving the area.
Berlin Crisis troop standoff: United States soldiers arriving at border in vehicles. German people applauding. jeep with 106 mm recoilless rifle backs up. truck with United States soldiers turn and drives off. Military Police standing near M-48 tank. Soldiers in street. Soldier speaks into walkie talkie.
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.
Large bell outside the church during 10th Evangelical Convention in West Berlin. Aerial view of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany). East Berlin people, including children, attend the convention in West Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Elders attend the convention sessions in church. Priest addresses people who came to attend session.
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