Germany undertakes a massive submarine-building effort early in World War 1. Boatyard scene with new German submarines being outfitted at a pier. A sleek, UB-III class, coastal torpedo attack U-boat underway on the surface, with officers on the conning tower.
German people seen on streets. United States Army soldiers mingle with German people. People read some posters on a pillar. A poster reads 'Bamberger Theater'. People seen talking to a U.S. Army soldier in a corridor. Crowd watches, as a U.S. Army crane lifts Church bells to be hanged in a Church, in Manheim, Germany.. U.S. Army Soldiers help by sandbagging and relief efforts during river flooding in Bavaria. U.S. Army engineers rebuild a road to an orphanage that was wiped out by flooding. Nuns and children thank Americans.
Sign on German hospital building reads 'Kreiskrankenhaus' (Town Hospital). United States Army blood donors in the German hospital. Nurse in hospital examining room greets soldiers. American soldiers play with homeless or orphaned German children. A German Porsche car in a car race with obstacles, attended by Americans and Germans. A Center for German youth in Stuttgart sponsored by U.S. Seventh Army and VII Corps. Army Soldiers supervise German youths in handicrafts; table tennis (ping pong); baseball, with players wearing "Phillies" uniforms; miniature car racing (Soap Box Derby). American Major General visits Boy Scout encampment. (General wears 11th Airborne patch on his uniform.) Scout leader wears Tyrolean hat. Boy Scouts cooking and eating food. Rural Town of Kirnbach, Germany, invites U.S. Army soldiers as guests. U.S. Army soldiers including an African American soldier exiting a bus on arrival in town. Musicians in band playing at a gathering. Views of groups of German citizens, including children and elderly, men and women, in the town. The U.S. soldiers share in various local cultural activities and dine with local people. View of plate of food and glasses of beer. View of poster promotion Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra concert in February 1949 under the baton of Paul Hindemith. U.S. Army musicians join in rehearsal of an orchestra (possibly the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra?), with an unidentified conductor (possibly a young Herbert von Karajan?), playing instruments and rehearsing a Mozart composition.
In September, 1959, United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrives in Berlin, aboard a Boeing VC-137B aircraft (Air Force One). He is greeted by German President Konrad Adenauer. An honor guard of German soldiers salute him. President Eisenhower speaks at the airport and then stands in an open car with motorcade through streets of Berlin. Germans hold up a banner reading: "70 000 000 Germans rely on you." A replica of the American Liberty Bell rings, in the Town Hall of Schöneberg, Germany, as two children watch from below, and one holds her ears. A woman is interviewed, by an American soldier, for the Forces radio Network, about the meaning of the freedom bell to her. Huge crowd gathered in a stadium to celebrate "Berlin Bleibt Frei" (Berlin remains free). Elements of the U.S. Seventh Army on parade. A young German boy stops on a cobblestone street to look and listen to the Freedom Bell ringing from the Town Hall in Schöneberg. He runs and catches up with his mother.
Newsreel 'News in Brief'. Long queues seen in Germany. People wait in lines in vegetable market, meat market and for other facilities also. Old people left behind.
Whitewater Slalom race in turbulent waters of a mountain stream in Germany. The Kayak is propelled by a double-bladed paddle by Kayak skippers. Women Kayak skipper also seen navigating her Kayak in water.
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