Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Officials are driven through ruined streets of Berlin to headquarters where surrender papers are signed. Guards stand on duty at the gate of the headquarter building. Interior of the building. Officials and officers enter the building. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel sitting at a table. He talks to an officer.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Interior of headquarters where surrender papers are signed. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Stumpf and Friedensburg sign surrender documents followed by Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov; Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Soviet deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vyshinsky and French Army General DeLattre de Tassigny present.
Honor burial for riot victims in Berlin, Germany. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, officials of the Reich, Nazi officials and large crowds gather to attend a funeral. Dead bodies of a Nationalist Socialist storm troop leader and a state policeman are carried down steps and placed in caskets. The crowds give Nazi salute as the carriages carrying the caskets pass along streets. Troops follow the cortège.
People being processed by the police in Berlin, Germany. Vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate: A policeman carries a suitcase followed by a few old people. People being processed by the police so that they can return to their homes. A Red Cross nurse talks to women seated with others on a park bench. People, including a nun, board a bus. Demonstrators carry a huge wooden cross and set it up in front of a Russian tank memorial.
Berlin civilians get food in Berlin, Germany. Crowds wait for opportunity to get surplus oranges and cherries from the U.S. A woman shows her identification card. Oranges and cherries are doled out. Mayor Willy Kressmen weighing the cherries. A man gives a child a drink from a paper cup.
A revolt in Berlin, Germany during the Cold War. People in the vicinity of a building decorated with a poster of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Signs in English, Russian and German: "You Are Now Leaving American Sector." A hole in a glass window. Demonstrators carry a section of a railing. People running in streets and standing atop buildings. Crowds in front of the Brandenburg Gate. A man hauls down the Soviet flag from the gate. A man throws uniforms out of a window. A man holds a Russian military raincoat. A man holds cutouts of German and Soviet flags. Others grab it out of his hand. An information booth on fire. Crowds in a street. A policeman leading suspects through a crowd. Several men follow and strike a suspect. Two policemen lead another man through the crowd. Others follow and pummel the victim. A giant crowd. A fire blazing up in the background.
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