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At end of World War II, U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops carry items from Goering's art collection and load them into trucks

At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029911
President Truman stops to review troops of 2nd Armored Division, near Berlin, prior to the Potsdam Conference

President Harry S.Truman is flanked by Brigadier General John Howell Collier, Commander, 2nd Armored Division, and a Major General to his left, and Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan (in sun glasses) and other military officers and Secret Service agents to his right, as they salute the colors during a visit to the 2nd Armored Division while enroute to Berlin and the Potsdam Conference at end of World War 2. The President steps up onto a mobile reviewing platform, followed by General Collier. Scene shifts to a line of 2nd Armored Division M10 Tank Destroyers with their crews saluting as the President's reviewing vehicle passes. The President with Secretary of State,James F. Byrnes, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, riding in an open car toward Berlin on an autobahn highway.They are followed by several vehicles carrying military Police and a jeep filled with members of the press.

Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030665
President Truman reviews troops of the 2nd Armored Division, along a section of the autobahn, while traveling to Berlin (WW2)

President Truman's motorcade stops to review troops of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, along a German highway (autobahn) while enroute to Berlin. The Presidential party, includes Truman, Secretary of State Byrnes, Brigadier General Collier, Brigadier General Vaughan, Fleet Admiral Leahy, and others. They stand on a platform in an Army reconnaissance vehicle while it passes more a mile of parked tanks and other armor, with respective crews standing in front. President Truman and his party salute as they pass the colors. The Presidential limousine and other vehicles follow the reviewing party. The Presidential party stops as Truman presents a Presidential Unit Citation to Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. (World War II period)

Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030667
Animated drawings showing various parts of the V-2 Rocket

Animated drawings of German V-2 rocket during World War 2. Drawing describes various parts of the rocket. German drawing focuses on warhead, fuel section and motor part of the missile. Animated graph shows various frequencies and height during missile launch.

Date: 1940, August
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030683
Russian MiG fighter planes try to disrupt a German Parliament Session during the blockade in West Berlin.

The access routes to West Berlin are shut down by Soviet forces during the Cold War. Cars and people lined up as traffic guards investigate the vehicles at Checkpoint Charlie. Sign reads, 'You are leaving the American Sector' Barricades and wires block the city roads. A session of the German Parliament in the Congress Hall. Soviet MiG-19 or MiG-21 fighter planes swoop down close to the building in an intimidating gesture. A man records the event with a film camera.

Date: 1965, April
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031141
Nazi Stormtroopers placard Jewish shops and put up anti-Jewish signs in Berlin.

Boycott against German Jews. Nazis placard Jewish shops in Berlin. People on the streets. They stop by shops on the sidewalk and look inside. The Star of David and 'Jude' written on Jewish store windows. Children watch as Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) or Sturmabteilung (SA) aka "Stormtroopers" and "Brownshirts" put up posters on walls and on store windows. A Nazi German Brownshirt soldier outside a shop door. Anti-Jewish posters on the door and window. People walk past on the sidewalk.

Date: 1933
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031315