An Allied airlift in West Berlin, Germany. British European Airways office at Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Women refugees from East Germany sign flight papers. Refugee women in a waiting room as they look at an aircraft. Two women smiling. The women board a British airplane (G-AMSR). A clerk marks a British European Airways bulletin board listing the number of refugees who left the area on March 8th, 1953.
U.S. Army 12th Armored Division on the move in Dillingen, Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers roll 500 pound bombs over the intact Danube River bridge at Dillingen in Bavaria Germany. U.S. medium tanks with soldiers loaded onto it as they cross the bridge at Dillingen.
German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)
The annual West Berlin police show in Berlin, Germany. People gathered at the stadium. The spectators at the stadium. The West Berlin police march at the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany). Men ride trick motorcycle. A band plays. Gymnastic performances. Men walk with flame torches at night in the stadium.
Mobilization and deployment of the German Army from Berlin, Germany for World War I. The Bismarck Memorial in front of the Reichstag building (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany). Cheering crowd in front of the building. Officers unload supplies from a cart. German officers hand over the supply packs to newly recruited soldiers. A band plays. Mobilized soldiers stand in formation. The soldiers march. Officers on horses review the troops.
Workers installing pilings to re-enforce wrecked buildings at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, at the end of World War II, in Europe. Wide shot of The Konzerthaus Berlin (Konzerthaus Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany) with wrecked military and civilian vehicles in the square. Close up of detonated mortar shell. Steps of The Konzerthaus showing heavy bomb damage. Statue of Apollo, in a chariot drawn by two griffins, atop the building. The statue of a cherub, perched on a lion, playing pipes, and one on a panther, playing a harp. Camera pans from The Konzerthaus to The French Cathedral (Französischer Dom, Gendarmenmarkt 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany) and then to the German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom) at the Gendarmenmarkt. All buildings in Gendarmenmarkt sustained damage from the war.
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