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United States and Russian troops in Germany after World war 2; division of West Germany and East Germany
Bomb damaged and ruined buildings of Nazi Germany in 1945, including the Reichstag. Nazi Eagle symbol of Third Reich pulled down from building and crashes to the ground at end of World War 2. United States Army of occupation marches into city as German population lines sidewalks and watches them parade. Sign on a shop reads "Gaststatte Schosser." Many buildings in view are damaged or destroyed from bomb attacks during World War 2. American soldiers occupying German give candy to German children who at first hide from them. Nazi leaders including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, seen on trial in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. German people struggling to rebuild. women and children trying to gather wood from stumps of trees for fuel. A woman sawing a log. Women and children scraping food from inside trash cans and refuse bins, to stay alive during scarcity and shortages after the war. Americans providing food assistance and feeding German children in relief lines. Close up of a smiling boy as he receives food or drink. Soviet Russian Army soldiers occupying East Berlin and marching in formation. Russians removing an industrial lathe and other machinery and tools from Germany as the Soviet Union continues to strip Germany of resources after the war. A map of Germany and Berlin seen with divided regions as American, British, French and Soviet zones. Views of empty streets and heavily damaged buildings of Berlin after the end of the war. Children play amidst the desolation and destruction in East Berlin. View of Kammergericht, Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Leaders seen meeting inside include American General Joseph T. McNarney, French General Marie Pierre Kœnig (Marie-Pierre Koenig), Soviet General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov,. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. View of Spandau Prison guarded by troops of occupying powers. Soviet and American troops drill and march on the grounds of Spandau Prison. An American soldier relieves a Soviet soldier at a watch post. Soviet blockade of West Berlin begins in June 1948. View of a man shutting down power in a power plant and lights going dark in Berlin. Blackout conditions in Berlin during the blockade. Germans plant vegetables in city to survive. Germans exchange goods in black market setting. A man plants vegetables in view of the Brandenburg Gate. The Berlin Airlift operations underway. U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft flying low and arriving in Berlin, bringing supplies to West Berlin. C-97 landing. U.S. military forces unloading relief supplies and food from airlift aircraft. American C-47s and C-54s in the Berlin Airlift. Soap and milk being unloaded from airplanes. German children gather on a hill and watch low-flying American airlift planes as they approach to land at Tempelhof Aerodrome in Berlin. An Air Force airman throws a package out of the aircraft. It is a very small parachute with candy that drops from the American airplane to the waiting children. Children run to retrieve it and they share and eat the candy. Blockade is lifted in 1949 and rebuilding of West Berlin resumes. View of railroad tracks being re-linked, a locomotive running on tracks, and trains cross between East and West Berlin. Ships loading goods onto trains for Berlin. A coal processing factory running again in Germany. German workers producing industrial parts and goods again in production factories. West German construction workers rebuilding structures in West Germany. German people cast votes, establishing Federated German Republic (West Germany). Figures seen include U.S. General Alfred B. Gruenther with Konrad Adenauer, President of the new German Republic, together in Bonn, Germany. Soviet Russian troops marching on parade in East Germany. East German workers rioting in 1953, in protest of increased production quotas in Communist controlled East Germany. Soviet forces in armored vehicles patrol the streets and disperse the crowd. A large electronic billboard banner flashes West German messages and propaganda to those who can view it in East Berlin. Citizen refugees from East Germany arriving in a processing center in West Germany, carrying bags and luggage. East German refugees laying on the ground on blankets in a crowded immigration processing center of West Germany. A woman irons clothes in the immigration center, while a child plays with dolls.
Activities of United States Information Service in various foreign countries
Opening scene shows a U.S. Information Agency (USIA) secretary provides a couple in Germany with information about American schools. Views of students in Saigon, South Vietnam, attending USIA English language classes. View of London, England, showing the Art Deco BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place (Portland Pl, London W1A 1AA, UK) and All Souls Church, Langham Place (All Souls C of E Church, 2 All Souls' Pl, London W1B 3DA, UK). A man is seen delivering a can, containing the USIA monthly film documentary, to the BBC. View of Broadcasting House of BBC in Marylebone, England. In Iran, a Douglas DC-4 passenger plane takes off, carrying newspaper reporters and Iranian officials to look over an American technical assistance project which is seen from the air. In Tokyo, Japan, a man working in a private publishing company begins translating an American book. The book is open on his desk and contains an illustration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. A page of the book, written in Japanese, is shown being reproduced on a type of mimeograph machine.
American Carol Morris wins the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant in Long Beach, California.
Miss Universe Contest in Long Beach, California. 17 Contestants pose in the stage. They walk on the stage waiving at the crowd. Miss Argentina Ileana Carré smiles on stage. Marina Orschel of Germany waves to the audience. Miss USA Carol Morris chosen as Miss Universe comes up on stage to receive the crown. Crowd cheers as she walks on the ramp with the crown. Miss Universe 1955 Hillevi Rombin of Sweden crowns Carol Morris.
German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer meeting with John Foster Dulles in the United States
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Germany arrives at a building in the United States with entourage in a Cadillac and two staff cars. Photographers take pictures. They come out of the car and enter a building. Adenauer is greeted by United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and they shake hands. The officials converse with each other.
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon greets German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at Blair House in Washington DC.
Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. A board in front of the building reads 'The Blair House'. American flags on poles. United States Vice President Richard Nixon greets visiting dignitary Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, in front of the building. Photographers take pictures.
United States soldier training and preparedness during Cold War
A sign board reads: 'Border Operations'. Other sign boards along the side of a road in Germany. A U.S. Army jeep drives past on the street. Soldiers advance along supply lines to protect them. Soldiers in training during Cold War fire guns. A sign board reads: "Army Arctic Training Center." The soldiers fire rifles and conduct cold weather and arctic training in snow covered area of Big Delta, Alaska. Other sign board reads: 'Organized Reserve Corps U.S. Army'. An officer briefs the soldiers about ammunition and equipment. A training of the ground troops undertaken. The soldiers exercise for their physical fitness. Men in a radio room. Man plotting positions on a wall board. U.S. Army soldiers scramble and run to battle stations during a Cold War aerial attack drill. Soldiers taking positions, some man an anti-aircraft gun.
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