Some scenes during rebuilding of West Berlin in 1952. Several vehicles driving past the ruins of the old Reichstag Building in Berlin, Germany. Scaffolding surrounding a construction project displaying a sign indicating Marshall Plan aid for "Clayallee." An official-looking building that appears to have been repaired. It has statues along its roofline and, as seen through the windows, there appear to be books or boxes stacked up inside. The newly rebuilt Schiller Theater building located in the district of Charlottenburg of the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf near Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Bismarckstraße 110
Ruins in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Shelled buildings, damaged by Allied bombings. Firemen douse fire. Damaged building by air attack of Allies. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda with other officers and inspects bomb damaged site. Civilians move with their belongings. Ruined buildings and debris. Civilians remove debris.
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria enter an open carriage to take them on a ceremonial ride to the Deutsches Stadion in Westend, Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife officially open Germany's Olympic stadium (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) on the 25th Anniversary of the Kaiser's Coronation. The Kaiser wears a full-dress uniform and busby hat. He salutes a couple of times as the carriage passes unseen persons. The carriage proceeds followed by a rider on horseback.
Headquarters building for the United States Seventeenth Air Force at Ramstein Air Base and NATO Command Base in West Germany. View of the building exterior, cars parked out front and flags flying over the building. Inside, an Air Force officer enters a room labeled "USAFE-MAC. Consolidated Airlift Command Post". Inside view of the room are shown with officers on the telephone in front of a large map of Europe. "USAFE Airlift Control Center. Aircraft of the U.S. Air Force taxi on a runway, including several C-130, C-141, and a C-5 readying for taking off. Aerial view of Soviet warships moving together in the sea. A missile is fired from one of the ships. View of Soviet paratroopers jumping from an airplane.
The beginning of Nazi-driven boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. Anti-Jewish propaganda choruses exhort street crowds in Berlin. Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers in trucks and cars. They shout anti-Jewish slogans. Strormtroopers hold the Nazi flag. The Swastika is painted on their vehicles. Sympathizers on bicycles follow their truck. Pedestrians crowding the sidewalks watch all this going on. Two stormtroopers are seen guarding the entrance to a shop. They display a large sign that says the Jewish owners of this shop (at 5 P.S. Laden) are vermin, and displays other disparaging remarks. It identifies the owner as the Jew, Katban Schmidt. The Star of David and word "Juden" painted on Jewish shop windows. Anti-Jewish posters and signs on store doors and windows. A poster in both German and English reads "Germans defend yourself against the Jewish atrocity propaganda. Buy only at German shops."
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler delivers an address at a stadium in Nuremberg, Germany. Hitler Youth in uniform shout and cheer at the rally. Hitler's motorcade on the stadium tracks. Young girls give the Nazi salute. Hitler and other Nazi leaders in the car. Hitler waves and gives the Nazi salute. The young boys wave and cheer Hitler. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and other leaders give the Nazi salute. The crowd sings the National Anthem.
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