Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall, 1960's -- Film 16971
With Willy Brandt when he was mayor of West Berlin, Germany. Building of the Berlin Wall.
Willy Brandt speaks to camera about Berlin.
The Brandenberg Gate. Archive footage of Berlin in the 1920s. Archive footage of Nazi soldiers in Berlin in the 1930s. Hitler speaking in 1944. Archive footage on Berlin on 2 May 1945 with burning buildings and general destruction. A family emerges with luggage from a house. Young children at a school or nursery. Soup is given out to a queue of children. Attlee, Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference. Map showing European cities. The original London Protocol Map of 1944 showing the post war division of Germany. Signatures on the map. Maps and diagrams showing the division of Berlin. The flags of the USA, the USSR, France and the Union Jack flying in Berlin. Sign for the Kommandatura. Men sitting around a table. Interior of a room with a portrait by a window. The rebuilding of Berlin. Women building, digging and wheeling wheelbarrows. People hanging on to the ledges of a crowded train. Children receiving drinks in a classroom. Men counting money, notes. A vehicle approaching the Berlin Blockade in June 1948. Aeroplanes used for the Berlin airlift. A woman on a stationary bicycle pedals to generate power. Copies coming off a printer or copier. Children singing. The Soviet blockage, a burning plane.
07:05:00. An American airman dressed as Father Christmas hands out presents to children in Berlin. Other airmen distribute the presents. Children opening presents. The blockade ends, 12 May 1949. Marches and gatherings. Protestors in East Berlin in June 1953, burning flag. People running from Soviet tanks. The rebuilding of West Berlin. West Berlin at night. Industry. Car production line.
09:40:00. Kurfurstendamm shopping area. Smarts shops and fashionably dressed people. People wearing sunglasses sitting at outside café tables. An organ grinder. Countryside and sailing. Cars at a beauty spot. Sign reading American Sector in different languages. Communist soldiers marching in East Berlin. Women soldiers. Tanks. Nikita Khrushchev descends from a plane and embraces Walter Ulbricht. East German refugees in West Berlin. 13 August 1961, Communist police in East Berlin guarding the border. The building of the Berlin Wall. A watchtower in the woods. People waving over the wall. A Communist soldier standing by barbed wire releases tear gas. A couple who have just married in west Berlin Wave to parents in East Berlin. Families shake hands over the barbed wire. A woman waves a handkerchief and weeps as she waves goodbye to another woman over the border.
14:10:00. At a border cemetery West Berliners talk to a guard in East Berlin. He shakes his head. Then he climbs over the gate. Still of soldiers pulling a dead man over the wall. Mass demonstration with Willy Brandt in West Berlin. A diplomatic car with the American flag pulls up. Vice President Johnson gets out. Waving crowds. General Clay (known as the Father of the Berlin Airlift), Vice President Johnson and Willy Brandt on the podium. British and American reinforcement troops arriving in vehicles. Konrad Adenauer speaks. Charles de Gaulle speaks. Harold Macmillan speaks. John F Kennedy speaks. Soldiers on the Brandenberg Gate.