Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.
Demonstrations in Berlin, Germany. People gather in large numbers in front of the Altes Museum (Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany) in Lustgarten. They hold signs and banners. One sign reads, " Frankreich gieb unserer Kameraden Frei," an appeal for France to free German prisoners of war. (Note: After World War 1, France was slow to repatriate German prisoners of war, and had transported many abroad, to work in her colonies.)
A film on protests against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. Mayor of West Berlin Ernst Reuter speaks during a freedom rally at Platz der Republik, west of the Reichstag building. Civilians running to take cover in the vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate after the Russians (Soviet-controlled Volkspolizei (VP) officers) fired shots into the crowd, killing a 15 year old boy (Wolfgang Scheunemann) according to the narrator. A protestor is seen tearing down the Russian flag from atop the Brandenburg Gate. German civilians from the Reichstag rally marching on their way to the Allied Control Council building (Elßholzstraße 30-33, 10781 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin's Schöneberg. Franz Leopold Neumann and others walk along a street as they go to hand over a people's memorandum seeking freedom and denouncing Soviet oppression.
Important buildings in Berlin, Germany. The Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) on Martin Luther Strasse. The Rathaus Schöneberg Tower and the entrance to the Rathaus. The Russian flag at a flagstaff. French, American, and British flags fly. The front of the Allied Control Authority building.
An Allied airlift in West Berlin, Germany. British European Airways office at Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Women refugees from East Germany sign flight papers. Refugee women in a waiting room as they look at an aircraft. Two women smiling. The women board a British airplane (G-AMSR). A clerk marks a British European Airways bulletin board listing the number of refugees who left the area on March 8th, 1953.
The annual West Berlin police show in Berlin, Germany. People gathered at the stadium. The spectators at the stadium. The West Berlin police march at the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany). Men ride trick motorcycle. A band plays. Gymnastic performances. Men walk with flame torches at night in the stadium.
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