May Day celebrations in Berlin, East Germany (German Democratic Republic or GDR). Parade of civilians and workers through the streets of Berlin. View of Brandenburg Gate in distance. The marching troops salute the German President, Wilhelm Pieck, at the reviewing stands. Among the spectators also are officials from China. The President waves at the workers and children. A huge crowd, nearly half are women, present to witness the parade.
United States president John F. Kennedy delivers his historic "Ich bin ein Berliner" (“I am a Berliner”) speech to an audience of 120,000 on the steps of Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany). President Kennedy delivers the speech in English which is interpreted in German by an interpreter for better understanding. Crowds cheer the President by shouting "Kennedy, Kennedy!"
Eva Braun and several other women on terrace of Adolf Hitler's residence at Berghof in Germany, during World War 2. Hitler speaks to Nazi German officers. Another official arrives, Hitler greets the official and speaks to women. A woman covers her face with her hand.
Italian release of 1936 Berlin Olympics film. Olympic village athlete camp in Elstal, Wustermark, Germany. Birds on trees and cranes on river bank. Athletes run through a forest and a wading stream to prepare for Berlin Olympics. They take steam bath and then dive and swim in a river or lake and lounge on a deck by the water.
From a Russian feature film "Meeting on the Elbe" (dubbed in Korean). Reenactment depicts meeting of the American 69th Infantry division and Russian soldiers at the River Elbe near Torgau Germany on April 25 and April 26, 1945. Reenactment : An American soldier meets a Russian soldier on the shore of Elbe river and the soldiers talk. A tank behind the soldiers. The soldiers sit down and the American soldier takes out a dollar note and scribbles on the note. A bridge over the River Elbe as the raised spans meet and come into place. The Russian troops stand in a line on the bridge. Two of the soldiers holding flags. A banner being displayed on the bridge across the river. An American officer and a Russian officer shake hands. The American officer reviews the troops. The band plays. The soldiers stand in a line. The officers salute and walk past the troops. The American soldier and the Russian soldier on the shore of the river. The officers salute. American tanks with troops move. The American officer views the soldiers through binoculars. Soldiers standing behind the American officer. The officers converse looking at a document. An American officer in a room inside a building. A crowd outside the building. The officer looks at the crowd through the window of the building. Another officer enters the room and approaches the American officer. The American officer hands over a symbolic key to the other officer and both men converse.
German civilians watch the arrival of United States Army 4th Division Jeeps and vehicles in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany during World War II. Civilians tearing down roadblock. German civilian men and boys form in a line and pass rocks from roadblock down the line (like a bucket brigade), piling them at side of the road. German boy smiles. One German man smokes a pipe. U.S. Army Jeeps and an M4 tractor towing 155mm gun past the roadblock and through the village streets. German civilians clearing the road for United States Army.
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