President Truman's motorcade stops to review troops of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, along a German highway (autobahn) while enroute to Berlin. The Presidential party, includes Truman, Secretary of State Byrnes, Brigadier General Collier, Brigadier General Vaughan, Fleet Admiral Leahy, and others. They stand on a platform in an Army reconnaissance vehicle while it passes more a mile of parked tanks and other armor, with respective crews standing in front. President Truman and his party salute as they pass the colors. The Presidential limousine and other vehicles follow the reviewing party. The Presidential party stops as Truman presents a Presidential Unit Citation to Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. (World War II period)
Animated drawings of German V-2 rocket during World War 2. Drawing describes various parts of the rocket. German drawing focuses on warhead, fuel section and motor part of the missile. Animated graph shows various frequencies and height during missile launch.
The access routes to West Berlin are shut down by Soviet forces during the Cold War. Cars and people lined up as traffic guards investigate the vehicles at Checkpoint Charlie. Sign reads, 'You are leaving the American Sector' Barricades and wires block the city roads. A session of the German Parliament in the Congress Hall. Soviet MiG-19 or MiG-21 fighter planes swoop down close to the building in an intimidating gesture. A man records the event with a film camera.
Boycott against German Jews. Nazis placard Jewish shops in Berlin. People on the streets. They stop by shops on the sidewalk and look inside. The Star of David and 'Jude' written on Jewish store windows. Children watch as Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) or Sturmabteilung (SA) aka "Stormtroopers" and "Brownshirts" put up posters on walls and on store windows. A Nazi German Brownshirt soldier outside a shop door. Anti-Jewish posters on the door and window. People walk past on the sidewalk.
Fragment of speech by Fuhrer Adolf Hitler as he addresses the Reichstag, meeting in Kroll Opera House, on April 28, 1939, in Berlin. The German Reich national Eagle insignia in the background, and Nazi Swastikas on either side. Reichstag members respond with cheers and Nazi salutes. Next scene is unrelated: Adolf Hitler on podium, preparing to speak at a huge outdoor gathering at the Heldenplatz in Vienna, Austria, on March 15, 1938, following the Anschluss. The crowd chants 'Heil'. Civilians give Nazi salute during the gathering in city square.
Hitler and Hermann Goering with representatives of France, Britain and Italy, on September 29, 1938. Hitler and Goering in meeting with Benito Mussolini on occasion of Munich Conference. Hitler and Mussolini converse. Civilians gather on the street outside the Metropol Hotel in Munich. Benito Mussolini, of Italy, seen signing the pact, along with Édouard Daladier of France. Hitler shakes hands with Daladier after the signing. The group around Hitler includes Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Mussolini's son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano.
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