President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. President Truman inspects the Second Armored Division of the U.S. Army, often called as 'Hell on Wheels'. President and other military and political officials on the reviewing stage. A military music band plays Victory beats. The infantrymen and tanks of the Division, which held its position in Berlin, salute the President.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. Signboards on a tree near the highway to Berlin. Babelsberg, a suburb of Berlin. Trees along the road. Lake Gribnitz at Babelsberg seen from among the trees. A house near the lake with its name written in German language. A bridge built on a river and another house near the lake.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. Babelsberg, a suburb near Berlin. Kaiser Strasse or 'The Little White House' in Babelsberg. Exteriors of the house. A spacious garden with beautiful flowers. Lake Gribnitz near side the White House. Beautiful flowers and garden in the compound.
President Harry S. Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. Meeting of U.S. President Truman and British Prime Minster Winston Churchill at Kaiser Strasse or 'The Little White House', in Babelsberg near Berlin. President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill walk out of The Little White House. Both leaders pose for photograph and talk to each other. Other officials watching. Churchill as he leaves the place. British Army and Navy officers leave the Little White House.
President Harry S Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. An official ceremony of raising the U.S. National Flag in Berlin. Military commanders and soldiers at the ceremony. President Harry Truman, Secretary Henry Stimson, General Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General Patton, General Clay and General Parks at the ceremony. The U.S. National Flag is raised and soldiers salute. Officials and Generals talk to each other.
Flags of Allied nations hoisted by soldiers at a ceremony at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Military Generals of England and the United States descend from a plane. Lord Tedder and United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shake hands and talk with Russian officers including Marshal Sokolovsky. German Field Marshal Keitel and others in his delegation arrive at the airport. Military band plays and Russian honor guard marches as British, American, and Soviet officials observe, while Keitel and his staff consult over paperwork in a car. Motorcade drives through ruined city of Berlin. Many views of various damaged and destroyed buildings and bridges filmed from a moving vehicle in the motorcade. Rubble all over the city roads and citizens moving about the streets, some observing the motorcade. Views of the building in Karlshorst, in a suburb of Berlin, where signing of the Nazi surrender takes place. Views of the Meeting hall (converted from a mess hall) before the signing . Views of the various military officials in the building before the signing of the surrender. Excerpt from Japanese newsreel. (World War II period).
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