In September, 1959, United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrives in Berlin, aboard a Boeing VC-137B aircraft (Air Force One). He is greeted by German President Konrad Adenauer. An honor guard of German soldiers salute him. President Eisenhower speaks at the airport and then stands in an open car with motorcade through streets of Berlin. Germans hold up a banner reading: "70 000 000 Germans rely on you." A replica of the American Liberty Bell rings, in the Town Hall of Schöneberg, Germany, as two children watch from below, and one holds her ears. A woman is interviewed, by an American soldier, for the Forces radio Network, about the meaning of the freedom bell to her. Huge crowd gathered in a stadium to celebrate "Berlin Bleibt Frei" (Berlin remains free). Elements of the U.S. Seventh Army on parade. A young German boy stops on a cobblestone street to look and listen to the Freedom Bell ringing from the Town Hall in Schöneberg. He runs and catches up with his mother.
United States Army soldiers marching German prisoners through Munich city. Thousands of German soldier POW are passed through the streets. Several bombed and wrecked buildings are seen as the soldiers pass by. Several of the German prisoners have both their hands folded at the back of their head. German prisoners pass under the Karlstor (or Charles Gate). Jeeps seen as the German prisoners pass through the streets. (World War II period).
View of ruins in Munich, Germany during World War II. United States Army soldiers warming themselves at fire. U.S. Army soldiers in the Ehrentempel (Brienner Straße 34, 80333 München, Germany) in Munich, Germany. Iron sarcophagi with names of the buried Stormtroopers written over them. 'Der Letzte Appell' 'Ehrlich Hier' written on one of the sarcophagi.
United States President Harry Truman awards Collier Trophy for air safety to Aeronautics Engineer Lewis Rodert. Both men shake hands. Rodert is recognized for his work in developing a heat method for preventing the icing of aircraft (de-icing method).
Liberated United States prisoners (mostly military airmen) at POW camp called Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) VII A, located just North of Moosburg, Germany during World War II. The airmen cook food. Several are seen sunning themselves. Airmen seen shaving, shining shoes and cleaning clothes. A group of airmen around sign 'I Wanted Wings' and 'Luft 3'. These are some of the prisoners who were originally held at Stalag Luft III, in German Province of Lower Silesia, near the town of Sagan (now in Poland). (Note: Stalag Luft III is famous because the "Great Escape" took place there in March, 1944. Prisoners were forced to march from Sagan to Spremburg during the coldest winter in Germany in 50 years. There, they boarded a train of boxcars for a 3 day trip to Moosburg in January 1945, because the Russians were closing in. The addition of these prisoners to Stalag 7A, at Moosburg, led to serious overcrowding of the camp. On May 1, 1945, the New York Times reported that "The Fourteenth Armored Division liberated 110,000 Allied prisoners of war at Stalag 7A at Moosburg." This corrected an earlier report that 27,000 prisoners had been liberated.)
Allied soldiers looking through binoculars. Several soldiers walk on streets in Rome. United States soldiers on jeeps and tanks. Wrecked vehicles seen. German soldiers lying dead by a roadside and beside smashed vehicles. (World War II period).
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