Berlin blockade to be lifted. Public and press gathered outside United States Mission building to the United Nations in Lake Success New York, USA. Inside the building, Russian and American dignitaries and UN representatives negotiate an end to the blockade. Closeups of the negotiators, including American diplomat Philip Jessup, Soviet diplomat Yakov Malik, and Sir Alexander Cadogan and Jean Chauvel, the United Nations permanent representatives from England and France, respectively. During the talks, Russia agrees to lift blockade from Berlin, Germany, via the Jessup-Malik Agreement. Dignitaries leave after the conference concludes. A railroad yard in Germany with rail cars filled with coal and other supplies, but idle due to the blockade. View of a busy city street in Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the distance. German pedestrian and vehicular traffic in Berlin.
German soldiers prepare for battle with Russia on the Finnish Front. A map of the Finnish Front. Troops march, do construction work, and push carriages loaded with baggage. Soldiers cross a river in boats and on barges. They rest, sleep, and wave to soldiers on the river bank. Horses on a raft. Soldiers get off boats and barges at the bank. A Hitler Youth courier brushes and saddles a horse. He climbs over another boy to get onto the horse. A man gives him a courier for delivery, and the boy rides off. He greets his family at home. Soldiers in trenches keep a watch. A soldier sends a radio message. A few load and fire artillery on Russian targets. Black and white smoke from explosion in a field. (World War II period).
Track and field running race at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy. Participants run on the stadium track while crowd cheers for them. Vladimir Kuts of Russia wins the 5000 meter race in world record time.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. Officials arrive for the conference. A sedan arrives at the conference building. U.S. Army officers enter the building. Other cars arrive and navy representatives enter the building. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius.
The Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. A diagram with a sign on it that reads 'Traffic diagram effective 1800 hrs'. The diagram for traffic movement during the Yalta conference.
Dead German soldiers lying among destroyed German armor and artillery, in a snow-covered battlefield in Russia, during World War Two. Among the destroyed armor and artillery , two wrecked Pz.IV tanks and field guns are seen. Footage is from the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket as Soviet forces reclaimed Ukraine.
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