German people seen on streets. United States Army soldiers mingle with German people. People read some posters on a pillar. A poster reads 'Bamberger Theater'. People seen talking to a U.S. Army soldier in a corridor. Crowd watches, as a U.S. Army crane lifts Church bells to be hanged in a Church, in Manheim, Germany.. U.S. Army Soldiers help by sandbagging and relief efforts during river flooding in Bavaria. U.S. Army engineers rebuild a road to an orphanage that was wiped out by flooding. Nuns and children thank Americans.
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).
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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