Allied military and some civilians gather for a ceremony at the ruins of Saint Martin's Cathedral, in Ypres Belgium, destroyed by Germany in World War 1. Scots Guards in kilts are seen among the assembled military. A ladder is seen and something is being raised by a hoist in the background,as preliminary cleanup is being undertaken. Scene shifts to point of view footage from a moving rail car on the Suspension Railway (Schwebebahn) in Barmen-Elberfeld Germany. At first it travels above a street in the city. Then it is seen moving over the Wupper River, in the Elberfeld region, as another suspension rail train approaches from the opposite direction. It continues traveling along (above) the waterway. (Note: Barmen-Elberfeld was re-named Wuppertal in 1930. The Schwebebahn is still in operation today, and is the oldest operating transportation monorail in the world. It is now called the Wuppertal Suspension Railway. Its original full name is: "Electric Elevated Railway (Suspension Railway) Installation, Eugen Langen System" (Anlage einer elektrischen Hochbahn (Schwebebahn), System Eugen Langen)).
Olympic village camp in Garmisch PartenKirchen, Germany. Athletes from Italy and Japan exercise to warm up. Athletes play basketball, hockey, practice shot put, javelin throw, high jump, long jump, obstacle race for Berlin Olympics. An athlete relaxes as he reads a newspaper. Flags of Nazi Germany and other countries participate in the games.
Red Army Day in Berlin, East Germany. Russian soldiers carrying a wreath march along Unter den Linden. They place the wreath in honor of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II at the Soviet War Memorial (Puschkinallee, 12435 Berlin, Germany) in Treptower Park. Soldiers march towards the memorial. They place a wreath. A Russian soldier on guard.
Tibetan refugee children, fleeing Communist Chinese occupation of Tibet, are seen sheltered in Pestalozzi Children's Village in Stockach-Wahlwies, Germany (Pestalozzi-Kinderdorf 1, 78333 Stockach, Germany). A Tibetan Buddhist monk leads a prayer with Tibetan children. The monk reads sutras. A German teacher teaching German lessons to Tibetan children. Children repeat German sentences after their teacher. A Tibetan boy writing on the blackboard “ich bin Tibeter”. A German man teaches Tibetan girls how to operate a loom. The children from Tibet play and dance and sing songs of their traditional Tibetan culture.
U.S. army cook speaks at a cook school in Bad Tolz, Germany on occasion of Christmas. Audio : U.S. Army cook at cook school speaks about how an occasion of Christmas is celebrated in best way in Germany. He says that dinner holds an important part on Christmas occasion. He explains how army cooks are taught to get many meals by slicing turkey carvings in right manner.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Operations. APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) cross Main River in Germany. Wooded area in the background. Men aboard the Armored Personnel Carrier. The APC climb riverbank and move across field. Trees in the foreground.
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