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Berlin Germany in the first hundred days of Soviet Blockade during the Cold War
Film opens showing Russian Bear covered by iron gate and slate reading 100 days Blockade. Camera pans over war-damaged areas of the city of Berlin, Germany. Narrator refers to the Berlin Airlift by the Allies and the Berlin residents not giving up. Views of several buildings undamaged by World War 2, including Kammergericht, the Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Streets crowded by pedestrians going about ordinary business in Berlin. Among them is seen a German soldier, missing a leg and using a crutch. Some Berlin industry activity is seen in a factory where welders are at work. Blockade fences are seen separating the Soviet zone of east Berlin from the allied sectors of West Berlin. Trams are seen that cannot travel between the zones. A person trying to use a gas stove to cook, but has no gas pressure. The city grows dark at night due to electricity shortages, resulting in blackout conditions. Berliners trying to manage simple things at home such as exercising on a fixed bicycle. A man planting a garden in sight of the Brandenburg Gate, at the boundary of the Soviet zone. A police officer using a radio in an automobile in the free part of the city. View of the City Council meeting in West Berlin. This is contrasted with view of East Berlin where members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) backed by the Soviet authorities are seen meeting in a separate city council of East Berlin, not long before the formal founding of East Germany in 1949. Next, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Mayor of West Berlin, addresses the West Berlin City Council.
Various ancient empires, the western border, and course of rivers in Germany.
Changes in Germany's western border from 800 A.D to 1936 A.D. An animated map of Germany shows the Mittel reich in 925 A.D and the course of major rivers around the borders of the empire. Rivers may include the Rhine and the Saone. Area under Frank empire in 1200 A.D and 1273A.D . The borders of the empire extend. Freid empire and the area under it from 1446-1493 A.D . Major rivers in the region like the Rhine, the Elbe and the Saone. Hein Empire in 1547 A.D and the territory under its control.
Various bunkers, water filled trenches, and tank obstacles found along Siegfried Line in western Nazi Germany prior to WWII.
View of a bunker overlooking a river in Germany, likely the Saar river, before World War 2. A ship can be seen sailing in the river. Many other pillboxes along the river. Low angle view of “Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers found in the Siegfried Line, the defense fortification line in western Nazi Germany use during WWII. Aerial view of long water filled trench on the Siegfried Line running through forest and farmland.
Allied Forces push into Germany during World War II
Allied Winter offensive into Germany,on the Western Front in World War 2. Allied infantry seen advancing in snow. Brief view of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at the Yalta conference. Animated sequence showing "pincers" closing on Germany. The British 2nd Army closing in at Hungen,Germany. British infantry moving along a road. Two dogs accompanying them. The British taking German prisoners. Americans of the 7th Army recapturing strategic town of Bingen, Germany. U.S. Army combat photographer filming U.S. troops breaking into buildings. Bodies of dead German soldiers lying in the snow.Residents of Bingen emerge from cellars and other hiding places to be evacuated behind the lines. Families are driven to safety in American Army trucks .At Hagenau, Germany, American troops, under counterattack by German forces, blow up a key bridge. Aerial views of Malmedy, Belgium, where bomb craters line the terrain. Troops of the U.S.30th Division uncover snow-covered bodies of American prisoners of war, at the Baugnez crossroads, who were killed by their German captors . German prisoners of war, mostly airborne troops from 5 FJD, with hands raised, look on apprehensively.
U.S. President Kennedy addresses American people about the buildup of arms in Cuba by Soviets.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. Top advisors of U.S. President John Kennedy arrive at the White House. Americans buy newspapers. President Kennedy makes a TV announcement about the crisis and what has been happening. He states that a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated to halt offensive buildup of nuclear arms. He says that all ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation and port , if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, will be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers. He further states that it shall be the policy of the United States to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union. Exteriors of the White House. An electronic billboard flashing news. Americans being interviewed by newsmen along a street.
U.S. aircraft spot Soviet missile installations in Cuba and President John F Kennedy addresses the nation.
Fidel Castro addresses gathering in Cuba in the year 1962. Large crowd of civilians gather at the street square. Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro addresses the gathering. United States aircraft in flight spot the missile installations in the Western hemisphere. President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy addresses the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Russians remove their bomber aircraft, ships and missiles.
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