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Military review,family observances and reception line during the 85th birthday celebration of Konrad Adenauer in Germany

85th birthday celebration of Konrad Adenauer in Germany. Konrad Adenauer, former Chancellor of West Germany celebrates his 85th birthday with his family in in his house in Rhöndorf. Lighted candles in a silver bowl. Civilians in long reception line to greet Adenauer. Adenauer reviews troops. Adenauer and his grandchildren in the family observances. Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of West Germany, toasts a glass of champagne with Adenauer. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt greets the beloved former chancellor. Ministers and leaders congratulate Adenauer and raise a toast. Adenauer emerges on a balcony.

Date: 1961, January 9
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055701
Nikita Khrushchev on television and radio after the division of Berlin, Germany; life in the city being divided by Berlin Wall

The divided city of Berlin, Germany soon after World War II. People listening to television and radio. Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev seated at desk and speaking into microphone. Refugees arriving into West Berlin. Stockpile of coal. Warehouse full of butter. The warehouse loaded with bags of cement. East German soldiers with armored vehicles on guard by the Brandenburg Gate. East German armored water tank trucks in front of Brandenburg Gate spraying water at the West German photographers and onlookers. East Germans constructing concrete Berlin Wall. People in West Germany waving to people looking out of window of an apartment house in East Berlin; as they are separated from each other at time of a family Wedding. A child and a woman cry as they wave. Two British armored cars escorting a boy on a bike as he passes from one sector to another to get to and from school. Crowds of West Berliners yelling at guards on East Berlin side in protest. Soldiers at the border.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076564
United States 9th Armored Division crosses the Rhine River over the Ludendorff bridge at Remagen, Germany,in World War II.

United States 9th Armored Division crosses the Rhine River in Germany., during World War 2. Opening scene shows several amphibious assault craft being moved by crane at a port in Belgium, where they are loaded on tractor trailer trucks and driven across Belgium to support Allied advance into Germany. British sailors ride atop the craft. They are brought into a town where a signalman, standing atop one, uses semaphore flags to transmit a message. Next, a smoke generator is seen creating a smoke screen over the area. Landing vehicles tracked (LVT) are moving over ground adjacent to the Rhine River. A formation of American B-17 bombers flies overhead. View from bomber, showing bombs striking German industrial targets. Closeup of two U.S. soldiers watching from the West bank of the Rhine, as U.S. bomb strike targets on the East Bank. View of smoke rising from bomb strikes. View of bridges destroyed by German forces. Closeup of three U.S. soldiers standing together. A German Messerschmitt Me-110 warplane passes overhead. Wrecked railroad bridge seen from above. The East bank seen from an aircraft. Soldiers refueling from 55 gallon drums. Troops moving through smoke screen. Two soldiers looking at the Rhine where the Ludendorff steel bridge is seen still standing. View of bridge at Remagen, from a cliff on the West bank of the Rhine. Soldiers in a jeep approach the bridge on West bank. View from jeep driving on riverbank underneath the bridge. Soldiers running across the footpath on the bridge. View from vehicle driving across the bridge. Troops and equipment crossing the bridge into Germany on East side of the Rhine. Large sign posted on bridge tower, reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet, Courtesy of the 9th Armored Division." Group of American soldiers watching as others cross the bridge. Several British Lancaster bombers are seen over the Rhine River. Inflight closeup of one releasing a large bomb. Camera tracks its fall to explode on target. Medical Corpsmen hurrying along the river bank, carrying a stretcher. Troops entering small boats and amphibious assault craft to cross the river. A U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft diving. A pilot wearing an oxygen mask seen in a cockpit. Troops in an LVT crossing the Rhine. More views of American and British troops crossing the Rhine by water. Troops being organized as they move out on the Eastern shore. A column of British troops moving on a road and escorting German prisoners. Two of the prisoners looking up as a formation of U.S. C-47 aircraft fly overhead. View inside a C-46D transport as troopers jump from its double rear paratroop doors. View from aircraft as paratroops descend with chutes open. A C-46 flying low over a German town, towing a Waco CG-4A glider. Army vehicles crossing river on a pontoon bridge. Closeup glimpse of a British officer. British troops riding in army trucks. (Note: Vehicles: seen in this film include: Diamod T 981, M20 MB GPW, M8 Armored Car Landing Craft, LVT, Rogers Trailer M9, M4 Sherman, Quad Mount, DUKW, WLA, CCKW )

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060114
Young American farmer visits pig and potato farm in Western Germany.

Young American farmer visits pig and potato farm in Western Germany. Tractor lifts potato from the farm. Women pick potatoes and place them in baskets. Pigs on the farm. Farmers feed pigs. Young farmers swim.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027098
German laborers construct the Siegfried Line on the western border of Nazi Germany

German laborers pour concrete from cement mixers during work on the Siegfried Line defense fortification in western Nazi Germany. Two men talk beside a high-speed cement mixer. Concrete pours into bucket that are then hoisted to pour into forms. Mixers rotate, process cement. Mixer pours cement down shoot into forms. Water being sprayed on newly created Dragon's teeth tank barriers to cure concrete via hydration. Shirtless laborers dig soil with shovels amongst surveyor's stakes indicating placement of new barriers. Men walk in trench. Man arranges grasses outside finished bunker to ward off soil erosion. Men tamp down soil with shovels. A man waters newly planted pine tree saplings.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078735
“Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers and water filled trenches along Siegfried Line in western Germany

A shepherd tends to his sheep amongst Dragon’s teeth tank barriers in land along the Siegfried Line in western Germany. View of “Dragon’s Teeth” tank barriers built in various parts of the Siegfried Line. Aerial view of Siegfried Line. Camera pans from line of Dragon's Teeth to Czech hedgehog-type steel antitank obstacles. Water filled trench and barbed wire fence as part of the Siegfried Line.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078738