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An official building in Colombo, Ceylon.

A building in Colombo, Ceylon. Cars parked outside an official building. A clock atop the building. People enter and leave the premises.

Date: 1942, March
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043728
Evacuees, British troops, Chinese Guerillas and wounded soldiers at the Colombo Harbor in Ceylon.

Evacuees and troops at the Colombo Harbor in Ceylon. Evacuees and troops arrive from Singapore and Sumatra. Civilians arrive at dock from a barge. The Harbor Police and St John's Ambulance volunteer ladies receive them on jetty. Officers and sailors help women get off. People with their luggage. Locals carry luggage. Soldier with bandaged feet. Sailors carry a wounded on stretcher. They place a wounded on a stretcher, lift and take him away. Nurses look on. A wounded soldier on stretcher smokes a cigarette. Indian soldiers lift a wounded on stretcher onto a truck. Wounded soldiers climb up a staircase. Evacuated troops at the jetty. Chinese Guerillas, British troops, Indian soldiers and locals sitting on the jetty. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, March
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043726
Local coolies construct an air raid protection wall on York street in Colombo, Ceylon, during World War II.

York street in Colombo, Ceylon, during World War 2. Trams run on tracks. Cars pass by. Locals pull hand rickshaws. Pedestrians on the street. A jewelry store at one corner. Local coolies build a wall in front of the Electrical Department Building for protection against air raids. Men and young boys lay cement bricks.

Date: 1942, March
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043729
Contrasting views of Berlin, Germany from 1945 to 1943, to 1945 again, during World War II

Soviet Forces battling in Berlin during 1945, in World War 2, employ tanks and heavy machine guns. A Soviet soldier herds two German prisoners from a building. Groups of German soldier prisoners struggle through rubble as they are led from buildings, under guard. Soviet tanks firing as they pass a church building. A Soviet heavy gun being fired point blank on a Berlin street. Buildings on fire. Soviet soldiers firing artillery field pieces. Views of destroyed and damaged German military aircraft on and in hangars of an airfield. Soviet Ilyushin II aircraft land on the airfield. Closeup of distressed German General rubbing his eyes. Flashback in time to 1943, in World War II. Field Marshal Hermann Goering is seen reviewing flyers of a German Luftwaffe (Air Force) unit. A Junkers Ju 52 trimotor aircraft lands and parks on an airfield. Italian leader Benito Mussolini steps from the aircraft after his rescue from imprisonment by the Italian Government at the Hotel Campo Imperatore. He is personally welcomed by Adolf Hitler, who had ordered the mission to rescue him. Change of time, again, to 1945, when Berlin, Germany is attacked by Forces of the Soviet Union. Closeup of a despairing German General. Scenes of utter destruction as Soviet troops batter Berlin, Germany with artillery. Soviet soldier steps down from his tank and gives a Soviet General a handgun, which he pockets and then leads a group of Soviet officers into a building

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675074100
History of Berlin before and after World War II showing zones of occupation and poor living conditions post-war.

Nazi soldiers at attention with guns drawn in Berlin during World War 2. U.S. soldiers on watch from damaged Berlin building. Man watching the Brandenburger Tor with binoculars while sitting in car. Pan American passenger airplane in flight after the war. Pan American passenger reading Time and other magazines onboard. Aerial view of Berlin early 1960s. Pan American plane landing at Tempelhof Airport. Pan American passengers descending to tarmac under sign that reads, "Today Pan American has completed 93153 Transatlantic Crossings". West German immigration officer inspects passport of tourist in Tempelhof Airport’s passport control. Brandenburg Gate from West Berlin during the early 1960s. A man observing the Brandenburger Tor from the Straße des 17. Juni street in West Berlin. Sign saying “Achtung! Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin” (“Warning! You are now leaving West-Berlin” in German). View of Berlin in 1920s and 1930 decades. Drive through Brandenburg Gate in the 1920s. Point of view shot driving through Berlin in the 1920s. Various street signs in Berlin showing “Unter Den Linden” and “Friedrichstraße”. Tourist bus flying American flag departs in Berlin 1920s. Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) along the Unter den Linden boulevard during the 1920s. View of the Berlin Cathedral dome. View of the Gendarmenmarkt square showing the Konzerthaus and the French Church. Pedestrians in Friedrichstraße. Berliners in Lustgarten park on Museum Island. Early Nazis driving in Berlin streets in 1930s. Hitler saluting parade. Hitler addressing Germans. Berlin in ruins in Spring 1945 as occupying Allied tanks pass in front of Brandenburg Gate. Old starving woman walks on streets of Berlin amid ruins in 1945. Ruins of Berlin include Reichstag Building during 1945 battle. Women and children emerging from underground Berlin bunker in 1945, to a scene of devastation and rubble in the city. Ground view of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche) after being bombed. Interior of ruined Reichstag Building. Potsdam Conference 1945, Map of WWII Europe. Berlin map, including official Berlin map with signatures showing Zones of Occupation. Germany allied control authority gathering including American, British, and Soviet representatives. French, American, Soviet flags in Germany. Rebuilding of Berlin mostly by women clearing rubble, using shovels, buckets, wheelbarrows and cleaning old bricks for reuse. Over-crowded train in Germany post-WWII filled with German civilian refugees abandoning the cities and heading to the countryside of Germany to resettle.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037555
Delegates from 29 nations present to conclude the Afro-American Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.

Asian-African Conference (also known as the Bandung Conference) concludes in Bandung, Indonesia. People crowd on the road. Policemen control the crowd as conference leaders including Sukarno pass by. Flags in the background. President, some royal monarchs, and delegates seated in the conference hall where largely anti-colonialism ideas were expressed. Delegates from Indonesia on the stage. Delegates seen from Asian and African nations including Saudi Arabia, Gold Coast, Ceylon, Zhou Enlai of China, and other participating countries. Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on stage speak to the delegates. Delegates from 29 nations present in the hall.

Date: 1955, April 25
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033815