Flags of Allied nations hoisted by soldiers at a ceremony at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Military Generals of England and the United States descend from a plane. Lord Tedder and United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shake hands and talk with Russian officers including Marshal Sokolovsky. German Field Marshal Keitel and others in his delegation arrive at the airport. Military band plays and Russian honor guard marches as British, American, and Soviet officials observe, while Keitel and his staff consult over paperwork in a car. Motorcade drives through ruined city of Berlin. Many views of various damaged and destroyed buildings and bridges filmed from a moving vehicle in the motorcade. Rubble all over the city roads and citizens moving about the streets, some observing the motorcade. Views of the building in Karlshorst, in a suburb of Berlin, where signing of the Nazi surrender takes place. Views of the Meeting hall (converted from a mess hall) before the signing . Views of the various military officials in the building before the signing of the surrender. Excerpt from Japanese newsreel. (World War II period).
The converted mess hall in Karlshorst, outside Berlin where signing of the German surrender takes at the conclusion of World War 2. British delegation arrives and take their seats. Flags of United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain at the meeting hall. Nazi delegation arrives and takes their seats at the side of a table. Nazi officials Field Marshal Keitel, Colonel Stumpff and Admiral Friedeburg sign the document. Lord Tedder, General Spaatz and Marshal Zhukov sign the document.
German dirigible Graf Zeppelin greeted welcome when it reaches Berlin after its visit to United States. The dirigible lowers near a statue for landing at a ground. A crowd near the airfield to see the dirigible landing. German aircrafts fly in a formation over the dirigible landing on ground. Crew on a specially prepared mast inspect the dirigible. Doctor Hugo Eckener, commander of the flight of Graf Zeppelin moves out of the cabin and greeted by German military and civil officials.
German civilians clean debris from streets, left over by the retreating German Army in Ludwigslust, during World War II. United States soldiers stack up wooden boxes of land mines. Two soldiers examine them. Civilians clean street of rifles, helmets, gas masks, crates and boxes. Pile of debris seen on both sides of the road.
German civilians clean streets from debris left over by retreating German Army in Ludwigslust, during World War II. Men and women sweep roads with brooms, women check pile of wooden boxes. Buildings and houses damaged on both sides of the roads. Debris scattered on both side of road. A man looks at stack of rifles of German soldiers.
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.
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