Crowds gather in Potsdam, Germany, where most of the newly elected members of the Reichstag (Parliament) hold their first meeting in the Garrison church. Views of the street, crowds, and the Garrison Church. Banner in street says, " We greet the new Germany." President Hindenburg steps from the church, holding his Field Marshal's baton, and greets two clergymen. Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers struggle to hold crowds back. Members of the Reichstag exit the church, wearing top hats.
Slate at start of sequence says the people came from all parts of Thuringer and the Thuringian Forest, to number 120 thousand in Erfurt . Scene shows massive crowd assembled in open stadium in Erfurt, Germany. Erfurt, where they attend a Nazi rally and hear Adolf Hitler speak. Hitler speaks into a microphone suspended above him. Many Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers line the stadium and stand in formations. The stands are filled with spectators. Hitler exhorts farmers to combine intelligence and hard work to ensure a bright future for Germany.
A taxicab driver being interviewed in Berlin, Germany. Man comes near the taxicab driver. Driver standing near his car. He is asked about the meaning of the Brandenburg Gate to the Berliners. He replies that the Brandenburg Gate has a special meaning for the people of Berlin. It is a symbol of United Germany. He gets inside the car after the interview.
The Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) as seen from behind barbed wire fence in Berlin, Germany. A snowman on the ground in West Berlin. Trucks passing on the street. British soldiers on guard at the border. They discuss amongst themselves.
United States Army troops in Germany during World War II. Dead bodies lying on ground at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany; victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces. American soldiers stand around on a field where dead bodies were cremated.
Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.
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