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Berlin - A Divided City - Cold War footage of East Germany closing the border...
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East German workers, working under protection of East German border guards, used jackhammers to began the erection of barbed wire fences to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin. East German troops spooling out barbed wire. A barbed wire entanglement blocks a street. Crowd of stunned West Berliners watch erection of fence. East German border guards disperse small group of men. Shows men, women, and children that fled to West Berlin at refugee center.
View of two barbed wire fences separated by narrow strip of land. These double fences later replaced by the concrete block Berlin Wall. Shows railroad line between East and West Berlin with rails removed and barbed wire entanglement. Animated map shows location of concrete wall that replaced the barbed wire fences. Animated map shows flight pattern used by planes during the Berlin Airlift. Riot or uprising in East Berlin. People throw stones and rocks at Soviet Russian tank. Shows burning building in East Berlin.
Scenes of busy modern West Berlin. People shop in stores. Men working in large industrial plants. People watching television and listening to radio. Nikita S. Khrushchev of Russia seated at desk and speaking into microphone. Refugees arriving in West Berlin. Stockpile of coal. Warehouse full of butter. Warehouse with bags of cement. East German soldiers with armored vehicles on guard by the Brandenburg Gate. East German armored water tank trucks spraying water at West German civilians. East Germans constructing the concrete wall, the Berlin Wall (building the wall of shame). Footage of the completed wall. East German guard walking behind the wall. People in West Germany waving to people looking out of window of apartment house in East Berlin. A child and a woman cry as they wave. Two British armored cars escorting a boy on a bike as he passes from one sector to another. Crowds of West Berliners jeering East German soldiers at border.
American NCOs visit East Germany. A close-up of the Berlin Wall. Tilt-up to barbed wire then pan along barbed wire and wall to bricked-up windows on buildings in East Berlin. American Army NCOs looking at buildings. More footage of bricked-up buildings. Wreaths in memory of person who died trying to escape. Sgt. taking pictures. Shoulder patches on men from different units in the States. Train departure from Lichterfelde Station. The men wave from train windows as the train leaves station. Sgt. on platform waves to the men on the train. T-34 Soviet Tank monument as seen from moving bus. Interior of bus in motion, Sgt. looking out of windows and taking pictures. NCOs touring "Garden of Remembrance". Some of the men take pictures of the monuments.