A film about the United States President Richard Nixon's visit to Asia and Europe. Chinese civilian rides bicycle in winter. Women clear snow from a road. The Tiananmen with a picture of Mao Zedong. President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon tour the Forbidden City. President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon view a carved horse. President Nixon visits the Great Wall of China. Crowds of civilians gather during Nixon’s visit. A young Chinese girl and her father. President Nixon and Premier Zhou Enlai visit the West Lake in Hangzhou. They walk across a bridge. Aircraft carrying President Nixon takes off for Shanghai. Artists perform on stage in Shanghai.
Activities of American first Army in Germany, advancing eastward in late 1944 during World War 2. Animated map shows: 4th and 8th infantry division move out from Stolberg and enter into Hurtgen Forest . U.S. 4th Infantry attack with field guns and artillery. Field gun amidst pile of shells fires toward Hurtgen Forest. 4th Infantry Division troops crawl up a hill in the Hurtgen Forest, sometimes pinned down under enemy German fire. Armor comes to their aid and casualties are treated by medical corps personnel. U.S. Army tanks arrive to support the infantry and they continue forward, where footage shows U.S. mortars and artillery bombing Grosshau, and point of view shot of a U.S. Army machine gun firing at a target in the town of Grosshau. Animated map shows: 5th and 8th Inf. Divisions enter into Kleinhau. Kleinhau is bombarded by a heavy volley of U.S. Army rockets and artillery from units of the 5th and 8th Infantry Divisions. Allied fighter bombers in flight over the area. Artillery is loaded and fired at close-range on target of Kleinhau which was then captured. U.S. Army Soldiers around the ruined buildings of Hurtgen, eating and drinking during a break. Infantry division move towards another towns. U.S. Army soldiers take a moment to relax during the long drive eastward. U.S. soldiers fire mortars from positions along the west bank of the Ruhr.
Victims of the cold war own and live on canal boats in Berlin, Germany. The boats are anchored. A woman hangs clothes on a string. One woman peels potatoes. One man smokes and another plays cards on the boat, as they cannot conduct trade as they used to between West Germany and East Germany.
Map shows West coast of Italy and principal cities. Scenes of British and American armor destroyed during the Allied invasion at Nettuno, Italy. A sign on roadside reading, "Gefangenen-Sammelstelle" (Prisoner assembly place). An American soldier smoking a cigarette. One with arm in sling. German medic bandaging minor cut on hand of a British soldier and attending to another. American soldiers in an open field and in a prison courtyard. They look up at contrails from Allied and German airplanes in dogfight at high altitude. German antiaircraft battery firing at Allied bombers overhead. Bombs exploding nearby. Closups of the German gunners. Black flak clouds fill air above.
German People move with their belongings in a refugee transit camp in Germany (likely East Germans fleeing to West Germany). A man checks paperwork of entering people and directs them in the building A man holding a baby comes and sits at a desk. The refugees enter into the building and papers are checked. People walk with their belongings and get into a bus. The bus is driven away. A baby in a pram. A woman cook serves food to people in a mess hall or dining hall. People eat the food. People and families seated at in a hallway and talking. People enter into the building. Children sitting at a desk play with toys.
German refugees at a camp in Germany. Men entering a building lobby, show their identification papers. People seated at a desk talk. Families with all their belongings finding their way to assigned quarters in the camp. A sign reads: "Haus E" and "Police Registration" (in German). A woman walks with a baby. Group of refugees stands near a low building. Two children run and play around some dumpsters. Families carrying suitcases board a special bus. A woman serves food to families in a dining hall. Views of several persons seated and eating a meal. Women hanging wash to dry on clothes lines behind their housing. (Note: This might be the Marienfelde refugee transit camp around 1953, showing East Germans fleeing to the West. )
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