Friendly crowd standing on either side of the roads as French Statesmen Premier Pierre Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand come for an official visit to Berlin Germany, to discuss economic relations between France and Germany. The French Statesmen are heavily guarded by Police. The throngs are held back by ropes.
During post World War II reconstruction years of early 1950s in Germany. German police officer stands on a square in Berlin, Germany. A man with a briefcase asks directions from him. Pedestrians pass by. Another police officer gives direction to the traffic. Traffic passes by on a busy road. German gasoline station or petrol station in background with sign "Tank" and sign "Gasolin". Cars, buses and a horse driven cart pass by.
General WIlhelm Groener seated on the left is joined by Otto Karl Geßler, Defense Minister of Germany, seated on the right. They converse. Scene changes completely to a memorial ceremony for fallen German soldiers. Goosestepping German soldiers, led by a goosestepping military band, march at a parade in Berlin as a large number of people gather around Berlin Victory Tower and Bismarck Memorial to witness the parade. Reichstag building with a sign on it that reads ' Dem Lebenden Geiste Unserer Toten ' People at the stairs of the building as they watch the soldiers march past the Victory Tower and the Bismarck Memorial. Soldiers line up in formation. Friedrich Ebert , the first President of Germany, gives a short speech.
French occupation of Ruhr in Germany, as France sought World War 1 reparations payments from Germany. Rubble spread along the sides of a stream. Logs of wood scattered on the ground. A trolley moves along a line. Two French soldiers move across a rail road track with freight cars in the background. A railroad station in Ruhr. A train pulls away with French soldiers loaded onto it.
French occupation of Ruhr in Germany. Soldiers riding horses escort a car carrying President Paul Von Hindenburg of Germany. The car moves down a street with people gathered along the sidewalk. Children welcome their President. Hindenburg drinks from a glass. A large crowd gathered as the President reads from a book.
Allied delegates at a meeting in Berlin, Germany. Allied Control Council building in Berlin, Germany. Meeting of the Allied control Council. Russian delegation. Chairman of the meeting General Joseph T. McNarney. Marshal Georgy Zhukov. American and Russian delegates. French delegation with its head General Pierre Koenig. Koenig with his political advisor Jacques Tarbe de Saint Hardoin.
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