Scenes in the city of Coblenz on the banks of the Rhine River during a major flood of the Rhine. Water flooded streets of Koblenz. People walk on raised walkways on water. Civilians sail in boat and use ropes to move ahead instead of oars. Civilians get on raised walkways.
Flag of Berlin displays image of Brandenburg Gate and slogan: 'Jeder Einmal in Berlin'. View of the actual Brandenburg gate in Berlin. Street cleaners using water tank truck and broom truck, drive on street. Men clean stone road with brooms. Man pushes a hand cart. Traffic on the roads. Woman walks her dog. Shopkeepers opening up in the morning. A woman buys milk from a vendor at curbside. People stand in front of shops. Trucks leaving a factory, in a row. Vehicular traffic on the roads. Women talk on a sidewalk. A boy watches a man, wearing an apron, ringing a handbell on the sidewalk. Several people on the street.
Two butchers wheel a cart loaded with meat. Crowd entering a department store or mall. View of street from above, behind two horse sculptures, suspended from building. Man, in open chauffered car, smokes cigar and reads newspaper. Vehicular traffic on the road. Men ride bicycles. Shops lined on the sides of the street. Barge traffic on river. Man cleans window inside office building with view of Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) outside. View of passersby from inside a flower shop with water running down its windows. Men drink beer, standing at cafe counter. Electric trolley car (tram) passes on street. Doubledecker buses and elevated train are seen at Xanderplatz. View of feet of people boarding bus. View from top deck of bus. Park and sidewalk vendors.
A nurse talks and laughs with two girls. She gives a bottle with nipple to one, who drinks from it. Modern curvilinear multi-story residential apartment buildings. Trains pass above each other on crossing railroad bridges, while an excursion boat and barge pass below on a river. Trucks and electric trams pass on the street. Berlin Policeman directs traffic. A massive clock tower. Men at an outdoor soup kitchen. A Berlin policeman is among those eating soup. German people sit in an open-air sidewalk restaurant. Chefs prepare food in the kitchen. Dishes cleaned in the kitchen. Food is served to the diners. Double decker buses pass by. Women squeeze sausage links from an extruding device. Sausages placed on racks. Men drink beverages and eat at a restaurant counter. Railroad porter sits on train station platform and eats a sandwich while people walk past, behind him. Old man, driver of horse-drawn carriage, wearing top hat and heavy coat, sits atop the carriage eating a sandwich. Petrol station attendant services an automobile in the gasoline station. Man on sidewalk eats items from a paper bag. Woman decorating store window behind him. Bicycle parked against building.
Several pigeons gathered on a square. Building in the background. A man sits on steps of building, smoking a pipe. Old women sit and talk. Horse eats from feed bag while driver of the carriage (one in a line) dozes waiting for a passenger. A man riding in an open carriage lights his cigar in the wind. He wears a hat with decorative brush in hatband. Traffic passes by. A view of the Victory Column (Siegessäule) in Königsplatz A man talks on a telephone. Woman works at telephone switchboard. Mail sacks emptied and piled on tables, and then each mail piece is rapidly hand stamped. Policemen ride in open car through heavy traffic, while one of them blows on a trumpet or horn. Policeman arrests a man, holding him by the collar. Pigeons fly by the Berlin Cathedral. Newspapers and magazines on street corner (including The American "Saturday Evening Post" with cover partially visible from September 1932 edition).
The Freedom bell of West Berlin is seen ringing. The Brandenburg Gate from behind barbed wires. The Berlin Wall crossing and blocking Bernauer Straße. It appears to be under construction with wooden forms in places. It is covered with obstacles and barbed wire. Anti-tank obstacles inside the inner and outer walls of the Berlin Wall. The Church of the Reconciliation, next to the Berlin wall on Beinauer Street. Berlin street sign “Potsdamer Platz”. Anti-tank barriers behind barbed wires in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. A small sign reads “Ida Siekmann”, the first casualty at the Berlin Wall. Bricked up windows of a building in Bernauer Straße 48. United States flag atop a flagpole in the US Army checkpoint, popularly known as Checkpoint Charlie, in West Berlin. A sign board outside a building reads: 'US Army Check Point'. Checkpoint Charlie seen from above. U.S. soldiers aboard a jeep passing on the street. Memorial services held by West Berlin mayor Wiily Brandt for the people who died attempting to cross the wall in Bernauer Straße. People march to protest against the Berlin wall and carry a cross with the words 'Wir Klagen An' which mean 'We Accuse' in English. Crowd gathered at the wall throwing rocks in protest.
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