Aerial view of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, highest spire heavily damaged. View of Brandenburg Gate, side and frontal views of the destroyed Reichstag Building and Platz der Republik. Assorted scenes of ruined buildings in Berlin. Vehicles can be seen on the streets below. (Shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe.)
Allied Control Council meeting in Berlin-Schoneberg, attended by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, of United Kingdom; Marshal Georgy Zhukov, of Soviet Union; General Lucius D. Clay, of the United States, and General Jean se Lattre de Tassigny, of France. (World War II period).
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. A C-54 Skymaster taxis at the airbase. Lt. General Leon W. Johnson inspects the honor guard and the band. He enters a staff car. The band plays. Lt. General Thomas S. Power, General Clarence S. Irvine, Director Chief of Staff Material USAF and General William H. Tunner, Commander in Chief of USAFE walk past the honor guard. They salute the flags. They leave the airfield in staff cars.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. An officer comes out of a staff car and is greeted by others. Congressman Charles A. Halleck and his wife get out of the staff car. They pose with a group of U.S. Naval officers at Schierstein naval port. Mrs. Halleck is greeted by an officer.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at the United States Air Forces in Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. Two U.S. Navy Rhine patrol boats in Schierstein naval docks. Congressman Charles A. Halleck and Mrs. Halleck with a number of U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army officers board one of the patrol boats. The patrol boat backs out from the dock and goes off into the basin.
Large group of German children seated and watch an old-fashioned dance exhibition by two young girls (one dressed as a boy) in historic costumes. The children spectators sway to the music as they watch. Women give out hot chocolate and buns to the children (during time of scarcity and shortages in post-war Germany). Parents and families of the children are seen in background. A very young German girl with a bow in her hair reaches high to receive her hot chocolate mug and poses for the camera with a sibling or friend.
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