Dignitaries arrive for the Potsdam Conference at Cecilienhof Palace (Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. The palace building and gardens. Red flowers planted in the shape of a star called the 'Big Red Star' in a garden. Green lawns and a river in the background. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill; United States President Harry S. Truman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin arrive at Cecilienhof Palace. The Big Three seated in chairs in the garden. Photographers take pictures.
Near the end of 2nd World War in Germany, American troops are seen in the Salt Mines at Merkers, Germany. They examine gold bars. Another American soldier opens up a suitcase filled with silver articles. Many suitcases filled with seized and stolen silver articles such as silverware cutlery and silver boxes, confiscated by German Schutzstaffel (SS) troops.
Preparations for World War II war crime trials in Nuremberg, Germany. The chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials Justice Robert H. Jackson with some Allied officials at the Palace of Justice (Fürther Str. 110, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany). Justice Jackson drafts documents for the prosecution of war criminals. He and other representatives draft documents at a round table. Few officials stand behind during the proceedings. The officials sign on various documents before the trial of the war criminals.
Demonstrations in Berlin, Germany. People gather in large numbers in front of the Altes Museum (Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany) in Lustgarten. They hold signs and banners. One sign reads, " Frankreich gieb unserer Kameraden Frei," an appeal for France to free German prisoners of war. (Note: After World War 1, France was slow to repatriate German prisoners of war, and had transported many abroad, to work in her colonies.)
A film on protests against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. Mayor of West Berlin Ernst Reuter speaks during a freedom rally at Platz der Republik, west of the Reichstag building. Civilians running to take cover in the vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate after the Russians (Soviet-controlled Volkspolizei (VP) officers) fired shots into the crowd, killing a 15 year old boy (Wolfgang Scheunemann) according to the narrator. A protestor is seen tearing down the Russian flag from atop the Brandenburg Gate. German civilians from the Reichstag rally marching on their way to the Allied Control Council building (Elßholzstraße 30-33, 10781 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin's Schöneberg. Franz Leopold Neumann and others walk along a street as they go to hand over a people's memorandum seeking freedom and denouncing Soviet oppression.
Important buildings in Berlin, Germany. The Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) on Martin Luther Strasse. The Rathaus Schöneberg Tower and the entrance to the Rathaus. The Russian flag at a flagstaff. French, American, and British flags fly. The front of the Allied Control Authority building.
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