Events during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, against the Soviet controlled government in Hungary. Destroyed tanks and Soviet weapons on roads of Budapest after fighting in October and November 1956. Church bells ring and people pray for Hungarians who have died fighting against Soviet forces. Destroyed railroad tracks, roads and vehicles. People clearing rubble from the streets. People from the countyside give away food for free to the citizens of Budapest. Citizens donating money to families in need.
Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev on a visit to the United States and meets U.S. President Richard Nixon in San Clemente, California. Premiere Brezhnev after signing an agreement addresses the dignitaries. He speaks into a microphone in Russian and a translator translates it to English. Brezhnev expresses his belief in peaceful US-Soviet relations. The people at the ceremony applaud as the translator speaks the words of Brezhnev in English. The dignitaries pose for a group photograph near the Western White House. The dignitaries and press reporters giggle as Brezhnev speaks 'goodbye'. U.S. and Soviet officials talk to each other.
The city of Breslau being fortified and prepared to defend against surrounding soviet forces in January, 1945, World War 2. Armed sentries patrolling the city streets. Snow on ground in some places. Poster announces the situation and requests cooperation of all Men, women, and children (over the age of 10). A poster being nailed to a pole, showing a defender with a panzerfaust anti-tank weapon confronting a tank. German soldiers shouldering panzerhaust on patrol in the snow. Closeup of insignia on sleeves on defenders' overcoats reading,"Volkssturm Wehrmacht." Men on defensive barricades. Others hauling material for defenses in wheel barrows. Tram cars being overturned and placed as impediments to invading forces. Closeup of Karl August Hanke, Gauleiter of Silesia, the city's Battle Commander (Kampfkommandant), mingling with other officers, and various groups of defenders. Hatless, he shakes hands with a defender who is dressed in heavy white cold weather coat. A car riding on road laced with tram tracks. view from inside the car of streets, building, and barriers contrived from overturned vehicles. Tram cars being set up as barriers. View from inside a defensive position, of a woman and man walking in the snow. Men setting up boxes of explosives and hooking them up to detonators along railroad tracks on a bridge. Closeups of the boxes and detonators. The charges are ignited and a large destructive explosion results raising dust and smoke. Civilian residents of Breslau, under orders to evacuate, are seen leaving the city with their belongings. Some of the refugees ride in army trucks, others use any means available to transport their belongings, including , wagons, bicycles, carts, and even baby carriages. As they leave, German soldiers including Volkssturm (Peoples' Militia) enter to reinforce the city defenses, Views of the reinforcements, some carrying panzerfaust anti-tank weapons, but most shouldering rifles as they march into the city. Cases of small arms being offloaded from army trucks to supply the reinforcements. A Goliath, SdKfz. 303 remote controlled tracked mine is seen scurrying across the ground as soldiers watch it in operation. A contingent of Volkssturm carrying panzerfaust weapons. City defenders setting up a large artillery field piece. A supply train carrying heavy armor and artillery to the city. A German Hetzer light tank destroyer (JagdPanzer 38) being maneuvered into position with other armor on a dirt road. A line of Panther tanks on a roadway behind supply trucks. Closeup of one with crew members visible. Scene shifts to a dirt airfield where a German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft is taking off. It is followed by several Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. Some raise considerable dust during takeoff. Closeup of one passing the camera on takeoff. Next, one is seen nosing over in the soft dirt of the airfield. But the pilot manages to right it again and continue the takeoff. Some Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft taking off in the dust. German airmen look up to watch the departing airplanes. Aircraft are barely seen in distance above, possibly engaged in dogfights with Soviet aircraft. Black smoke rising from Soviet bombing or shelling. German Army soldier on the airfield, shouldering a panzerfaust, looks skyward, with a comrade. View of sky shows aircraft engaged above, but barely discernible. White smoke rises from the ground, possibly from a crashed airplane.
Ruins in Berlin, Germany near end of World War II, during Battle of Berlin. A U.S. jeep rolls past Soviet Russian officers in rubbled Berlin. A line of horse drawn wagons on a street. An old women is carried on a stretcher through debris, with Brandenburg Gate in background. Soviet soldiers smile and talk standing near wrecked buildings. A man rides a horse drawn wagon. White flags fly from wrecked buildings. Wrecked monuments and buildings. A burning building with flames seen through windows. Burned sign boards ripped down on a street. Civilians dig through rubble. Russian, British and U.S. soldiers mingle in the streets. A soviet soldier smokes a cigarette and plays music on an accordion as an American soldier listens.
Prisoners after the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland by Soviet troops towards the end of World War II. Soviet troops talk to prisoners after German surrender of the camp. Prisoners with their belongings leave the camp. An old aged woman is helped by Soviet soldiers. Sick people are carried on stretchers. Prisoners in numerous horse-drawn wagons leave the camp. Large number of very young children are escorted by rescue workers as they leave the camp.
Soviet Commissar for foreign affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov on a secret visit to the United States. Molotov meets U.S. officials at the Washington D.C. airport. He shakes hands with the officials and boards a Soviet bomber. The aircraft takes off. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov sign a lend-lease agreement.
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