Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman, arrives at West German Chancellery in Bonn, Germany, by car with motorcycle escort. He steps from car and is greeted and escorted inside. Photographers take pictures. Helmeted armed German guards stand at entrance. Inside, President of West Germany, Conrad Adenauer, escorts Truman to a microphone, where he makes some statements. (Truman carries a cane.) Candelabra shown in ceiling. Reporters take notes. Adenauer makes some brief remarks. Truman and Adenauer smile and shake hands. Plaque identifying house where Ludwig van Beethoven was born. Former U.S. President Truman emerges, after visiting the house, and enters his car. It is raining, and streets are wet. Spectators holding umbrellas, smile, and laugh. Truman's car and motorcycle escort drive away.
An ordinary street scene at Bismarckplatz (Bismarckpl. 69115 Heidelberg-Altstadt, Germany) in Heidelberg, Germany, right after World War II. Vehicles on streets. Buildings seen on either sides of the streets in the background. People cross the busy streets. A tram moves on a track.
World War II war crime trials in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Judges preside over the proceedings in a courtroom at Ludwigsburg Palace (Schlossstraße 30, 71634 Ludwigsburg, Germany). Chandeliers hanging from the ceiling in the palace. Vehicles drive past outside the palace. Prisoners aboard a truck. They climb the stairs of a building. Trucks move on the streets. Trees on either side of the streets. The trucks arrive at the palace. A sign board outside the palace reads " Ludwigsburg 59th QM Depot". The palace gate. Military police on duty.
Rebuilding and reconstruction activities in Frankfurt, Germany after World War II. Exterior and interior views of the damaged Festhalle Frankfurt (Messe Frankfurt Venue GmbH, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany) at the Frankfurter Messegelände. Workers use an acetylene torch on a girder at the Festhalle construction site.
Communist-backed North Korea at war with South Korea. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing on North Korean targets, U.S. Army tanks moving through a city in Korea, and U.S. soldiers scrambling in a fire fight. A U.S. Army chaplain hugs a dying American soldier and pats his face. The chaplain closely prays over the dying soldier. A U.S. Army officer lifts a shocked Korean child into a truck. Young Korean children, possibly orphans, eating food at a table. Korean civilians including women and children fleeing the war. UN council in a meeting regarding the Korean War. Soldiers from multiple nations mobilizing for the effort in Korea. View of Kremlin in Soviet Union. Scene of Stalin dead, lying in state surrounded by flowers around his casket. Other Soviet political leaders look on. Citizens pass by site where Stalin is memorialized. East German leader Walter Ulbricht speaking at a podium. Laborers in East Germany struggling as they work longer hours for less pay. Workers construct buildings. East German construction workers sitting idle on the scaffolds of a building under construction as they begin their strike in June 1953, initiating the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
United States President Richard Nixon arrives at the Cologne Bonn Airport in West Germany, during his official visit to Europe. German security and honor guards on alert at the runway of the Cologne Bonn Airport (Kennedystraße, 51147 Köln, Germany). The United States Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) arrives and President Nixon and others disembark. German Chancellor Kurt G. Keisinger and other German leaders receive and welcome them. Nixon reviews the honor guard and walks towards the terminal building.
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