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Berliners work together to clean up streets and sidewalks of their city at the end of World War II in Europe

In Berlin, at the end of World War 2, in Europe, a large group of ordinary people gather at a hill of debris where a building once stood. Men and Women use shovels to dig dirt from sidewalk and place it in buckets, that others pass up the hill, in a bucket brigade. Closeup of people filling the buckets at the base of the pile of debris. The bucket brigade consists mostly of women. They transfer the filled buckets up the hill and empty ones down via a separate group of volunteers. The buckets are emptied at the top of the heap. Some women transfer large fragments of concrete to one another. The entire project seems intended to clear more space in the sidewalks and streets. View from a high point reveals skeletons of tall buildings and other groups doing similar work to clear rubble from the city walks and roads.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069003
Citizens of Berlin (mostly women) form bucket brigades to clean up streets and sidewalks of their city at the end of World War II in Europe

At the end of World War 2, in Europe, citizens of Berlin (mostly women) cooperate in a bucket brigade to clear rubble from their walks and streets. Lacking any machinery, they use shovels to fill buckets and pass them up the hill of debris at the base of bombed out buildings. A train passes below damaged roadway where camera is located. Camera pans to the cleanup site, where dozens of people are occupied. Closup of a man using a mason's hammer to break concrete slabs so they can be moved by hand. Women inside the walls of a demolished building, where they empty the buckets and throw the concrete slabs.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069004
U.S. military police stop a German civilian automobile and arrest the occupants in the American zone of occupation

Filmed enactment involving several takes, shows an American military police jeep stopping a German civilian automobile on a dirt road in an area if woods. The MPs jump out of their jeep and and arrest the occupants after discovering weapons in their car.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070612
The German State Opera building (Staatsoper Unter den Linden) in Berlin being reconstructed following its World War 2 bombing in 1941

View of the State Opera building on Unter den Linden, in Berlin, in 1941, being reconstructed by order of Adolf Hitler, after being bombed in April, 1941, during World War 2. (He ordered the reconstruction in spite of wartime, to bolster German morale at the time.) Trams with equipment and supplies are seen in front of the building. Scene switches to inside, where crystal chandeliers are seen. Camera focuses on two artisans who are restoring gold decoration encircling interior columns. Next, numerous persons are seen at work at various restoration tasks in a section of the building. In another area, dressmakers are busy working on costumes. A woman is seen placing costume helmets on a rack. Various artisans work on statuary and other features of the building and contents. Brief glimpse of restorers examining a painted mural on the floor. Designers working with architectural drawings and models of the Opera house.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065465
General Ludendorff with Nazi Storm Troopers in Munich

Spectators are gathered on the steps at the left side of the Propyläen in Königsplatz, Munich. Quartermaster General (Generalquartiermeister) Erich Ludendorff, and several army officers walk forward, from the nearby doorway. Next, a procession of Sturm Abteilung (Storm troopers) is seen, wearing Nazi armbands. They parade in the streets of Munich, carrying Nazi flags. Several thousand assemble in Königsplatz. Next, General Ludendorff is seen on the steps of the Glyptothek (in Königsplatz) surrounded by civilians.

Date: 1921
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065696
Germans in Berlin demonstrate against the Treaty of Versailles, after World War I

Germans demonstrate in Berlin, at the Reichtag and in the Lustgarten, against the Treaty of Versailles, after World War 1. A crowd of Germans demonstrating in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, The Bismark memorial and the Monument of Victory are clearly visible. As the camera pans, men raise their hats in unison (presumably prompted by the cameramen). One person holds a poster reading "98.Abt." (referring to 98th Abteilung, the German Army 98th Division). Others hold banners that are pointed away from the camera. Demonstrators also fill the Lustgarten. Men sit on a lamp post above street sign reading "Lustgarten."

Date: 1919
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065699