Important buildings in Berlin, Germany. The Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) on Martin Luther Strasse. The Rathaus Schöneberg Tower and the entrance to the Rathaus. The Russian flag at a flagstaff. French, American, and British flags fly. The front of the Allied Control Authority building.
An Allied airlift in West Berlin, Germany. British European Airways office at Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Women refugees from East Germany sign flight papers. Refugee women in a waiting room as they look at an aircraft. Two women smiling. The women board a British airplane (G-AMSR). A clerk marks a British European Airways bulletin board listing the number of refugees who left the area on March 8th, 1953.
The annual West Berlin police show in Berlin, Germany. People gathered at the stadium. The spectators at the stadium. The West Berlin police march at the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany). Men ride trick motorcycle. A band plays. Gymnastic performances. Men walk with flame torches at night in the stadium.
Mobilization and deployment of the German Army from Berlin, Germany for World War I. The Bismarck Memorial in front of the Reichstag building (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany). Cheering crowd in front of the building. Officers unload supplies from a cart. German officers hand over the supply packs to newly recruited soldiers. A band plays. Mobilized soldiers stand in formation. The soldiers march. Officers on horses review the troops.
U.S. 95th Infantry Division troops in Saarlautern Germany during World War 2. A sign reads 'you are now entering Germany through the courtesy of 95th Div'. Two U.S. troops stand beside the sign. The soldier on the right is Technician Fourth Grade (T/4) Julian Koentz, of Trenton, Illinois, a member of the 378th Infantry Regiment, 95th Division. A road sign identifies the town of 'Saarlautern'. The troops in vehicles enter the town. A sign posted on a a tree reads 'Danger Beware of Mines and Booby Traps'. The soldier on the left is Sgt Andrew Rauch of Chicago,Illinois, also of the 378th Infantry. (Note: Rauch was identified by Julian Koentz, while looking over still photos of this event with his son Robert L Koentz, who provided this information.)
Training film for U.S. soldiers during occupation of Germany after World War 2, guiding them on their role of "reeducation" and restoring normal life to civilians in Germany after World War II. U.S. soldiers seated and Germans standing around them talking to the solders. A German MG Police officer outside a building. A German police officer monitors citizens in a line. Germans talk to U.S. soldiers outside the Office of Military Government for Bavaria, in Munich. The U.S. soldier reviews their identification papers and questions them. German children at play. A smiling American soldier seated with a group of young German children around him. A group of German boys plays baseball on the lawn in front of the largely destroyed Altes Armeemuseum in Munich (later home to the Bayerische Staatskanzlei or Bavarian State Chancellery) in Greek architectural style with six prominent ionic columns. A U.S. soldier talks to German civilians. Soldiers talking with German men , women and children. A soldier frisks men and women entering a secure area. German police grab and restrain a German citizen for some offense and escort him away. Young children seated and learning at an outdoor class. The children standing and smiling.
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