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.
Traces events leading up to and through World War I. Portrait of German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. Wilhelm II riding on horseback. He starts the preparations for war. Views of German military officials including Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Newspaper headlines of assassination of Austrian Archduke. Celebrations on streets of Germany at start of World War I including views of German soldiers and citizens preparing for war. Germany launch war on Serbia, France and England. German infantry and u-boat submarines target enemy positions. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in his office . U.S. declares war on Germany. U.S. forces departing from American cities and arriving in Europe; moving toward battle. Scenes from trench warfare of World War I in France. Soldiers going up "over the top" out of trenches during offensive operations and into "no man's land". Retreat of Germans, views of General von Luddendorff, the German Chief of Staff. Armistice declared after secret message sent to German government by Luddendorff. Cheering people celebrate the end of World War 1 after armistice. Views of United States General Pershing.
A map shows the United States, British and Soviet occupied zones in Germany after World War II. American and French police checks papers and belongings of Germans entering their zone. They chase and capture a gun runner car and remove a weapon from the back seat. Scene in a building depicts young Nazi die hard followers in a "werewolf gang" meeting in secret to plot how to continue Nazi Germany. German civilians gathered exchanging items in black market activity. U.S. occupation soldiers sell cigarettes in black market to German civilians. German police raid a black market exchange area and arrest many German citizens, rounding them up and loading them onto a truck. A captured German woman cyring. German de-nazification trials at a court in session. At a news conference, U.S. Army General Lucius D. Clay speaks about measures to build democratic processes in Germany, starting with local elections. A leader speaks at a political party meeting. German civilians vote at first free elections after World War II. A German man acts with servility before a U.S. officer and looks vindictively in direction of officer after leaving his room. Narrator describes German people post-war as egotistical people.
Huge buildings and skyscrapers seen in restored postwar West Berlin, Germany. A street sign reads 'John-Foster-Dulles-Allee'. Pedestrians and traffic on busy streets. Preserved bombed-out Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany), Berlin. A car entering a parking multi-story car park. U.S. Army Soldiers seen shopping. People shopping at Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe, Tauentzienstraße 21-24, 10789 Berlin, Germany). Some shops names read 'Peek & Coppenberg', 'Kaffee Hag' and 'Odol'.
Scene in Germany during period of starvation hunger following World War 1. German children stand in a queue to receive their daily food rations at a feeding center established by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), in a large German Grammar School. The program was known in Germany as "Quäkerspeisung". Three women serve food to the needy German girls and boys during difficult economic times in post-war Germany. Four hungry boys seen eating their food and sitting together on a bench. An undernourished and permanently disabled boy holds up his admission card. He attempts to walk but must be carried by his friend as his rachitis (rickets) has caused him permanent disability.
Changes in Germany's western border from 800 A.D to 1936 A.D. An animated map of Germany shows the course of major river systems in Europe including theRhine, the Elbe, the Seine, Schelde, Maas and the Loire. Lake Constance. Various empires in Germany and the changes in their boundaries with the passage of time. Ludwig Burg empire and its changing boundaries in 870 A.D and 879 A.D. Weftfrankifches empire and the Oftfrankifches empire.
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