Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman, arrives at West German Chancellery in Bonn, Germany, by car with motorcycle escort. He steps from car and is greeted and escorted inside. Photographers take pictures. Helmeted armed German guards stand at entrance. Inside, President of West Germany, Conrad Adenauer, escorts Truman to a microphone, where he makes some statements. (Truman carries a cane.) Candelabra shown in ceiling. Reporters take notes. Adenauer makes some brief remarks. Truman and Adenauer smile and shake hands. Plaque identifying house where Ludwig van Beethoven was born. Former U.S. President Truman emerges, after visiting the house, and enters his car. It is raining, and streets are wet. Spectators holding umbrellas, smile, and laugh. Truman's car and motorcycle escort drive away.
An ordinary street scene at Bismarckplatz (Bismarckpl. 69115 Heidelberg-Altstadt, Germany) in Heidelberg, Germany, right after World War II. Vehicles on streets. Buildings seen on either sides of the streets in the background. People cross the busy streets. A tram moves on a track.
World War II war crime trials in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Judges preside over the proceedings in a courtroom at Ludwigsburg Palace (Schlossstraße 30, 71634 Ludwigsburg, Germany). Chandeliers hanging from the ceiling in the palace. Vehicles drive past outside the palace. Prisoners aboard a truck. They climb the stairs of a building. Trucks move on the streets. Trees on either side of the streets. The trucks arrive at the palace. A sign board outside the palace reads " Ludwigsburg 59th QM Depot". The palace gate. Military police on duty.
Mass movement of German refugees in Germany during World War II. Trucks loaded with the refugees and their luggage drive past on streets in region of Ulm, Germany. A group of refugees rests alongside a highway with their luggage. They load their luggage on a truck. A directional board on a street. Second part of clip is from September 13, 1945, again at Ulm: At a railroad train station: German refugees gathered at the station with their luggage. A blond German girl child sits on a suitcase. A German family stands at the door of a boxcar.
Rebuilding and reconstruction activities in Frankfurt, Germany after World War II. Exterior and interior views of the damaged Festhalle Frankfurt (Messe Frankfurt Venue GmbH, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany) at the Frankfurter Messegelände. Workers use an acetylene torch on a girder at the Festhalle construction site.
Unveiling of new Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) in Berlin Germany, during Russian Revolution anniversary celebrations (28th anniversary), in Berlin, Germany, soon after the end of World War II. Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov inspects British, French, American and Russian units. Trees in the background. Zhukov and United States Army Major General James Maurice Gavin in a grandstand. A Russian officer speaks from the grandstand in front of the Soviet War Memorial (then also called Russian Victory Monument by Allied forces) on Charlottenburger-Chaussee. A Russian Army band plays. A statue of a Russian soldier atop the Victory Monument. Russian troops parade after unveiling of the Memorial. Honor company of United States Army 82nd Airborne Division marches past. Allied troops seen marching in formation on nearby streets of Berlin. Major General Gavin shakes hands with Soviet leader Marshal Zhukov. Officers place wreaths at the Soviet War Memorial. Russian artillery fires salute. Photographers take photographs. The officers salute in front of the War Memorial. Wreaths placed at the base of the Memorial.
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