A-4 German missile takes off from a launch site in Peenemunde in north east Germany. A camouflaged missile emits smoke and fire at the time of launch and moves straight upwards. A fiery flare emerges from its tail as it moves upwards.
American officers and other NATO Military in Brandenburg to watch a partial withdrawal of the Soviet Army as it demobilizes and reduces forces in East Germany. Russian photographers take pictures. A number of obsolete and propeller driven planes are part of the demobilized equipment. The first contingents of 50,000 Soviet troops depart.
River Elbe and a bridge across it in Hamburg, Germany. Important building, a man shakes hands with a woman and she gets into a car. An equestrian statue in Hamburg showing a German officer riding a horse. A Mercedes drives to the country side. Point of view shot from inside moving convertible Mercedes, looking out toward highway and German countryside. Footage is from Eva Braun movies, early in World War 2.
Aerial view of Berlin two years after World War 2. Aerial view of the Siegessäule (Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany) and the Großer Stern in the Großer Tiergarten. View of the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany) and the Budapester Strasse in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. Aerial view of the Potsdamer Platz, the Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei Wilhelmstraße 77 Berlin, Germany), and the Reichstag building (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany), showing further damage caused by bombing. Aerial view of bomb damaged Zoo Flak G-tower bunker at Tiergarten. Aerial view of Mitte district, showing the Ministry of Aviation building (now known as the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus Wilhelmstraße 97, 10117 Berlin, Germany).
Many refugees flee East Berlin under the regime of Communist rule and reach West Berlin, in Germany. Many refugees walk near the Brandenburg Gate. Bernauer Strasse near the Berlin Wall. Russian and East German soldiers guard the Berlin Wall line of demarcation between East and West Berlin. Families communicate across the line and relatives weep. A young girl weeps as she views relatives across the divided east and west Germany. A wedding bride waves to her parents in East Germany. A woman (Frieda Schulz) is pulled at the same time from above by east German authorities, and by West German helpers from below as she jumps from the window of her home on Bernauer Strasse to escape into West Germany. Scenes of several successful escapes by East Germans through barbed wire at the border, as they reach the hands of waiting helpers in West Germany.
Aerial views of Berlin, Germany, 8 years after the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of wrecked buildings and cleared areas in Berlin. View of the Soviet War Memorial, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor, the 1870 monument, a huge bunker, Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany), the destroyed belltower of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany), the Funkturm Berlin in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Hammarskjöldpl., 14055 Berlin, Germany), and the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany).
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