River Elbe and a bridge across it in Hamburg, Germany. Important building, a man shakes hands with a woman and she gets into a car. An equestrian statue in Hamburg showing a German officer riding a horse. A Mercedes drives to the country side. Point of view shot from inside moving convertible Mercedes, looking out toward highway and German countryside. Footage is from Eva Braun movies, early in World War 2.
Aerial view of Berlin two years after World War 2. Aerial view of the Siegessäule (Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany) and the Großer Stern in the Großer Tiergarten. View of the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany) and the Budapester Strasse in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. Aerial view of the Potsdamer Platz, the Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei Wilhelmstraße 77 Berlin, Germany), and the Reichstag building (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany), showing further damage caused by bombing. Aerial view of bomb damaged Zoo Flak G-tower bunker at Tiergarten. Aerial view of Mitte district, showing the Ministry of Aviation building (now known as the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus Wilhelmstraße 97, 10117 Berlin, Germany).
Many refugees flee East Berlin under the regime of Communist rule and reach West Berlin, in Germany. Many refugees walk near the Brandenburg Gate. Bernauer Strasse near the Berlin Wall. Russian and East German soldiers guard the Berlin Wall line of demarcation between East and West Berlin. Families communicate across the line and relatives weep. A young girl weeps as she views relatives across the divided east and west Germany. A wedding bride waves to her parents in East Germany. A woman (Frieda Schulz) is pulled at the same time from above by east German authorities, and by West German helpers from below as she jumps from the window of her home on Bernauer Strasse to escape into West Germany. Scenes of several successful escapes by East Germans through barbed wire at the border, as they reach the hands of waiting helpers in West Germany.
Aerial views of Berlin, Germany, 8 years after the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of wrecked buildings and cleared areas in Berlin. View of the Soviet War Memorial, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor, the 1870 monument, a huge bunker, Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany), the destroyed belltower of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany), the Funkturm Berlin in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Hammarskjöldpl., 14055 Berlin, Germany), and the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany).
Scenes in Germany near the end of World War 2, in Europe. Major General Clarence Huebner, Commander of the U.S. V Corps talks to Major General Emil F Reinhardt, Commander of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division, and Major General Vladimir Rusakov, Commander of the Russian 58th Guards Infantry Division at Torgau in Germany. General Reinhardt's helmet with two stars on it. Officers standing on and around a Russian tank. Russian star and '900' insignia on the tank. Russian woman soldier smiles for the camera.
As film starts, German civilians are seen running along a street in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. There is no sign of any war damage in this particular area. Next, a young man with an injured arm is helped up from the pavement by German civilians and U.S. Army soldier of the occupying 69th Infantry Division. One of the civilians helps the young man bandage his arm. A group of U.S. Army troops gather around two medics tending to a person lying on the pavement. Scene shifts back again to the young man with the injured arm who seems unable to stand up. A U.S. Army soldier re-bandages his arm. View from a vehicle driving along a street, passing American infantry walking along a sidewalk, past others sitting against buildings. Several U.S. Sherman tanks are gathered along with American infantrymen, in a square in the city. The tank crews fire machine guns and their tank guns as the infantrymen fire their rifles at remaining German resisters and snipers (As film starts, German civilians are seen running along a street in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War II in Europe. There is no sign of any war damage. Next, a young man with an injured arm is helped up from the pavement by German civilians and U.S. Army soldier. One of the civilians helps him bandage his arm. A group of U.S. Army troops gather around two medics tending to a person lying on the pavement. Scene shifts back again to the Young man with the injured arm who seems unable to stand up. A U.S. Army soldier re-bandages his arm. View from a vehicle driving along a street, passing American infantry walking along a sidewalk, past others sitting against buildings. Several U.S. Sherman tanks are gathered along with American infantrymen, in a square in the city. The tank crews fire machine guns and their tank guns as the infantrymen fire their rifles at German resisters and snipers (unseen). View from moving vehicle of civilians standing on sidewalk and street with some rubble on it. They wave white cloths and some smile. More views of American infantry patrolling a sidewalk and street with a Sherman tank in the background. A man waving a white cloth crosses a square toward the camera. A pair of Sherman tanks move on a street toward the camera. More brief views of infantry patrolling and civilians with anything white they can wave. A pair of Sherman tanks move slowly on a street toward the camera, past more German civilians waving makeshift white flags. View from moving vehicle of civilians standing on sidewalk and street with some rubble on it. They wave white cloths and some smile. More views of American infantry patrolling a sidewalk and street with a Sherman tank in the background. A man waving a white cloth crosses a square toward the camera. A pair of Sherman tanks move on a street toward the camera. More brief views of infantry patrolling and civilians with anything white they can wave. A pair of Sherman tanks move slowly on a street toward the camera, past more German civilians waving makeshift white flags.
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