Speaking before United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) in its first meeting in June 1946, Bernard Baruch proposes international control of all atomic energy -- the so-called Baruch Plan. Low level aerial view of ruined post World War 2 European city. Goods including heavy equipment, locomotives, being loaded aboard ships to aid in the postwar recovery of Europe (The Marshall Plan). Workers in Western Europe making use of Marshall Plan materials to rebuild their national infrastructures. West European farmers restoring agriculture. View from overflying light airplane of parts of postwar Berlin in 1948. Blocked roads and empty railroad tracks leading from East Germany to West Germany, blocked by the Soviet Union. Barge traffic at standstill due to Soviet actions. U.S. C-54 transport aircraft flying supplies into West Berlin (The Berlin Airlift) during the Soviet blockade of that city. West Berlin citizens watching U.S. transport aircraft bringing fuel, food and other essentials into the isolated city. A C-54 flying low over empty railroad lines, as it prepares to land in West Berlin. Supplies offloaded from a DC-3 ( AKA C-47 or British Dakota) equipped with unusual set of rear cargo doors. Supplies being moved on Tegel Airport with many C-54 aircraft in the background. Numerous C-47 aircraft operating at Tempelhof airport. An East German official opening a barricade as Soviet blockade of West Berlin ends on May 12, 1949, and supply trucks begin to move over roads again. Flags of Western nations flying on high flagpoles. Glimpse of Allied warships underway during the Cold War. Formation of P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight overhead. NATO troops marching and NATO armor on parade. Flashes of heavy artillery firing at night. Korean refugees moving South in 1950 with the outbreak of the Korean War. View of UN Security Council meeting in the absence of Soviet representative. U.S. tanks firing guns and American infantrymen in conflict with North Korea in Korean War. American wounded on stretchers.Delegates of both North and South Korea signing the Korean Armistice Agreement in P'anmunjŏm, on July 27, 1953. A rocket is launched. Images of earth from inside a space craft in orbit. Narrator mentions the first satellite to circle the earth, the soviet Sputnik 1 in 1957. View of Soviet pilots in low pressure altitude chamber. A test subject in an aircraft making a maneuver that allows him to experience "weightlessness." Objects in his cockpit float about. A military rocket launch monitored by arrays of radar. An object being retrieved from space by means of a parachute. A nuclear powered submarine. Rockets on display during a military parade in Red Square, Moscow, the Soviet Union. A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber taxiing. More views of rockets seen during a Soviet military parade in Red Square, Moscow.
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of World War II Nazi German atrocities, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary prison camps in Czechoslovakia. Officers of Military Police, prisoners of war and other enlisted men take the bodies of the concentration camp victims out of mass graves for their identification. Piles of dead bodies taken out of the mass graves. Prisoners take out corpses, doctor doing identification tests in dead body. Prisoners take bodies in coffins for burial. Number of coffins for reburial at a ceremony.
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary concentration camps in Czechoslovakia in World War II. Prisoners dig the mass graves and take out dead bodies of Czech patriots. Dead bodies inside the graves in deteriorated condition. Workers pull out the dead bodies. A worker sprays water to clear mud from the faces of bodies for identification. A doctor examines the bodies. Dead bodies on wooden platforms kept for identification. Reburial of dead bodies keeping them in flower decked coffins. Soldiers lower rifle and salute as the coffins lowered in graves.
German citizens in Usti, Sudetenland, soon after end of World War 2. A few German citizens, wearing armbands as identification marks (during period of expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia), standing and talking on a street in Usti, Sudetenland. Two German citizens wearing armbands walking along the walkway of a street. Buildings on either side on the street. Czech civilians on the street.
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia soon after the end of World War 2. A convoy of horse carts loaded with expelled Germans and their belongings move to the camp in Karlovy Vary. An old German with his pipe, and a woman seated on the bundles on a horse cart. Both of them wear armbands for identification. The convoy of carts enter the camp. The Germans unloading their belongings from the cart. A German family helps the Germans on carts unload their belongings. Men unload the belongings. Another cart moves along the road. A woman walks behind the cart. People outside buildings in the camp.
A memorial of the Russian Army in Czechoslovakia. A few men at the monument erected in the memory of the Russian Army which liberated Zlin. The Russian emblem on the monument. The men reading the inscription on the monument. View of a building near the monument and the Russian emblem.
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