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.
View of the bomb damaged Frauenkirche Catholic cathedral in downtown Munich, Germany, at the end of World War 2 in Europe. Camera pans from top of towers down to ground level, with a pile of debris seen near the entrance between the towers. View of the interiors of the Church sanctuary, heavily damaged by bombing, with open sky visible. Wide view from an elevated tower position (presumably a Frauenkirche tower) of the bombed remains of the city of Munich at the close of World War II. Several wrecked buildings in view. View toward New Town Hall. Next scene at ground level shows U.S. Army jeeps and trucks, along with pedestrians passing by on street of Marienplatz with the New Town Hall behind.
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.
River front and the Royal Castle of Saxony seen in Dresden. The offices of 'American Friends Service Committee' (Quakers) located in Royal Castle of Saxony. American staff seen entering past barbed wire entanglements which are for protection of the castle. Physicians examine hungry, undernourished and malnourished German children during time of economic calamity and food shortages in Germany following World War 1. Several children sit on benches. A doctor examines a girl using a stethoscope. Boys file into a room for weight and height examination, confirming undernourished children.
Several curios in view. A stove in the shape of a snail. A woman and a child seen with a swan which can be used to bathe a baby of wash things. Knives seen upright. A woman seen smoking and with an umbrella cigarette lighter. A man seen with a gun which is actually a watch.
Several newsreel cameramen taking pictures of a Cocker Spaniel puppy dog in the White House in Washington. The Puppy named 'Feller,' belongs to U.S. President Truman.
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