Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. Ground level view of the heavily damaged Reichstag building in Berlin, with destroyed defense equipment on the grounds. Interior view of rubble inside the Reichstag. Close-up panning view of a painting of the Krupp family that produced arms during both world wars. A destroyed steel frame and girder structure that narrator says was part of Krupp arms factory. Former German soldiers being processed. They are lined up, sprayed with delousing powder, interrogated and their documents checked during demobilization. Demobilized former German soldiers give their thumb print impressions. A British officer interrogates an older man in civilian clothes, and then his Luftwaffe picture and papers are shown. Shirtless German men with their arms up in the air pass by a British inspector looking for SS mark under their left armpit. A British interrogator talks to a captured German soldier and rejects him for demobilization, based on his answers or his paperwork. A guard steps forward to escort the man back to prison.
' Operation Pluto ' about the British operation to lay down under the sea pipe lines to supply gasoline in the European theater during World War II. A map of France. Flexible pipelines to transport gasoline between France and England are tarred and wrapped in Britain. Pipelines being manufactured and piled up in a yard. Ships and boats underway in the English Channel as the pipes are being laid.
New helicopters being tested in the United States. United States XR-8 helicopter lifts off during a test flight. Men look on. A helicopter lifts off from a roof with cars parked on the ground below. A U.S. Air Force helicopter during a test flight comes in and lands. The pilot works on throttles and foot paddle to control the various functions. The pitch control of the helicopter. Propellers of the helicopter rotate. The helicopter lifts off. The pilot works on the throttles.
M2 Carbine fired in the United States. A man holds M1 and M2 Carbine. A lever on M2 that makes it different from the M1. A man fires M2 carbine as he pulls the trigger. Lever being moved forward and M2 is automatically operated. Magazine used for the M2 Carbine. An operating model of M2 Carbine. A lever being fitted on the crank pin. Trigger being squeezed to demonstrate the mechanism of the new M 2 Carbine. A man pulls th lever. Slide of the operating model moves down. Selector being fitted on crank pin. A man demonstrates the automatic and semi automatic mechanism of the M 2 Carbine. A man fires the Carbine. (World War II period).
German people cut trees at Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany, as German people struggle and forage for food, supplies, and fuel shortly following World War 2. Men and women cut a tree at Tiergarten with Sieges Saele monument in the background. Tree falls and the monument being revealed. A child waits by a baby carriage as the mother gathers wood. Mother puts wood in a perambulator. A boy and an old woman sawing a tree. A woman chops at the stump of the tree.
People cut trees at Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany. A woman chops a tree with Brandenburg Gate in the background. People cut trees and take away wood on hand drawn carts and trolleys. People move away with chopped wood with Sieges Saele in background. A woman loads wood onto a cart with a Prussian eagle in foreground. Charlottenburger Chaussee as woman pull cart loaded with wood. People pull carts down road as they move past pictures of Stalin, Churchill and other Allied leaders. (World War II period).
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