Berlin History 1945-1958 "Journey Across Berliin" 1961 US Information Service; Cold War
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more at http://news.quickfound.net/intl/berlin_news.html "DOCUMENTS THE WEST'S POSITION ON DEFENSE OF BERLIN, BEGINNING WITH THE DESTRUCTION AND ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN OF THE CITY AT END OF WORLD WAR II, AND PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS, SUCH AS ESTABLISHMENT OF OCCUPATION ZONES, THE AIRLIFT, 1953 RIOTS, ELECTIONS IN FREE BERLIN AND THE WEST'S DETERMINED ACTIONS TO MAINTAIN THE FREEDOM OF WEST BERLIN." Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin Berlin is the capital of Germany, and one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of River Spree, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 4.5 million residents from over 180 nations. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes. First documented in the 13th century, Berlin became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1417), the Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918), the German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and the Third Reich (1933–1945). Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world. After World War II, the city was divided; East Berlin became the capital of East Germany while West Berlin became a de facto West German exclave, surrounded by the Berlin Wall (1961–1989). Following German reunification in 1990, the city was once more designated as the capital of all Germany, hosting 158 foreign embassies. Berlin is a world city of culture, politics, media, and science. Its economy is based on high-tech firms and the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities, media corporations, and convention venues. Berlin serves as a continental hub for air and rail traffic and has a highly complex public transportation network... Modern Berlin is home to renowned universities, orchestras, museums, entertainment venues, and is host to many sporting events. Its urban setting has made it a sought-after location for international film productions. The city is well known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts, and a high quality of living. Over the last decade Berlin has seen the upcoming of a cosmopolitan entrepreneurial scene... After the end of the war in Europe in 1945, Berlin received large numbers of refugees from the Eastern provinces. The victorious powers divided the city into four sectors, analogous to the occupation zones into which Germany was divided. The sectors of the Western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom and France) formed West Berlin, while the Soviet sector formed East Berlin. All four Allies shared administrative responsibilities for Berlin. However, in 1948, when the Western Allies extended the currency reform in the Western zones of Germany to the three western sectors of Berlin, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the access routes to and from West Berlin, which lay entirely inside Soviet-controlled territory. The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from June 1948 to May 1949. In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany. West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but it politically was aligned with the Federal Republic of Germany despite West Berlin's geographic isolation. Airline service to West Berlin was granted only to American, British, and French airlines. The founding of the two German states increased Cold War tensions. West Berlin was surrounded by East German territory, and East Germany proclaimed the Eastern part as its capital, a move that was not recognized by the western powers. East Berlin included most of the historic center of the city. The West German government established itself in Bonn. In 1961, East Germany began the building of the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin, and events escalated to a tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie...
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It's kind of strange to see that Berlin until 1961 went already through so much, yet the worst hasn't even happened yet. This documentary ended in 1961, that's when the soviet union started building the wall, which was considered the low point of berlin. People who tried to escape from east to west Berlin, were shot and killed on sight by the soviet union. The wall eventually fell after a total of 28 years in 1989
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I see all the new muslims are enjoying the new Germany.
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american captlist pigs
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This was made before the wall
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wow the Soviet block the road to west Berlin to starve it to surrender. you automatically know who the bad guys are.
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We fought for nothing. Hitler was right.
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Stalin was very clever, he was supposed to give the U.S.A, Great Britain, and one third each of Germany. He gave Poland one third of Germany and kept the parts of Poland that he invaded in 1939. So even though he got one third of the new Germany, he really got about half when you include the old territory of Germany. He got away with this even when America was the sole nuclear power at that time and the Soviet Union was weakened militarily by the war.
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The Berlin Wall was constructed on August 13, 1961, obviously a little after this film was released.
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Berlin History 1945-1958 "Journey Across Berliin" 1961 US Information Service: http://youtu.be/XhpGd8yrLdM #Berlin #ColdWar
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