Berlin Today (1947)

Unused / unissued footage - dates or locations unclear or unknown.
Berlin, Germany.
Shots of the badly damaged street "Kurfurstendamm" with trams moving along. M/S people alighting from a German tram and the tram moving off. M/S of a street stall in the Kurfurstendamm with a German policeman looking on.
L/S of the Tiergarten with memorial at far end. L/S the damaged Chancellory, panning to the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin. Two Russian girls in military uniform and carrying brief cases, walking past the Soviet War Memorial. A group of Russian soldiers walk along a street. A group of Russian soldiers walk along arm in arm with their German girlfriends.
General views of the Chancellory - badly damaged. Shots of Brandenburg Gate and close shot of the damaged statue on top of the Gate. General view of the Tiergarten. Close view of the Statue on top of Tiergarten and panning down to the base.
Shots of people sitting at a pavement cafe on the Kurfurstendamm. Children play on the street near the cafe. L/S of barefooted German boys walking past a full German cafe in the Kurfurstendamm. M/S of the feet of a German girl (great shoes) and male friend walking along pavement. More feet of a couple walking along.
Various shots of German people looking into shop windows. Several shots of medals being exchanged for cigarettes during a Black Market deal between two British soldiers and a German boy.
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[@jcc2c22]

I lived there from 1962 to 1965 and by then, there were very few traces of the war years left.

[@woodenseagull1899]

@freebeerfordworkers They should have applied that energy to the countries they invaded first...!

[@Steve14ps]

I would have imagined that would have been the case in the Western Sectors, I remember visiting the East Sector around 1985 and some of it was still run down

[@thelwulfeoforlic6482]

@@woodenseagull1899- and it is that kind of foolish thought held in 1919, that led to a second Great War which rent Europe and the world just over 20 years later; it’s said that those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it……….

[@waltertanner7982]

I was born there in 1948, and there was plenty till the late 50s. We used to play in the flattened ruins (where I nearly broke my leg), found parts of weapons, burnt big heaps of christmas trees at new years eve and saw cheap outdoor films on the housewall leftovers from bombing. 62, the year after the Berlin Wall was built and Peter Fechter had died in his blood at the banks of the river Spree, bc noone from Berlin/East came to help and noone from the West dared to, bc they were threatened with machine pistols from the eastern border troops. Also the year of the Kuba crisis…

[@tridbant]

Someone should do a ‘Then and Now’ shots of these streets.

[@Spudtron98]

And with original audio, too. Quite a rare catch.

[@thinman8621]

Beginnings of prosperity are there already.

[@stefanrichter9162]

9:22 Selling medals for cigarettes . Cigarettes was standard currency in that days.

[@davey2363]

The Berliners look cleaner and richer than the British in 1947……..Britain was such a dirty hovel by comparison to Germany

[@doug6500]

Berlin is still a horrible, dank, miserable grey concrete jungle.

[@woodenseagull1899]

@@doug6500 Modern day GERMANY is Soulness, ridged, humourless and self entitled. Their contribution to the human race is the huge number of Cemeteries across Europe...!

[@lindaatkinson3962]

@@doug6500 - Nonsense...Today it is a wonderful, modern, futuristic city, so full of life and with such an international environment. I love Berlin.

[@yosemite735]

@@lindaatkinson3962 International environment, you mean overrun by POCs. Germans lost everything.

[@spm36]

Yeah because the western allies pumped millions into reconstruction leaving our own working class areas derelict...read a book!

[@howl_with_the_wolves]

Berlin less then 24monrhs after WW2 and everyone is dressed classy and streets are relatively clean alot better then most US cities 2023.⬅️fact

[@thomaschevalier9356]

Take a look at the city of Dresden horrible site needs a lot of rebuilding

[@user-iu3hk9js8g]

Немцы решили забыть войну и начали восстанавливать берлин, чтобы очистить себя от скверны войны!

[@howl_with_the_wolves]

Comrade,can you blame them.Germans are an amazing folk and Russians as well.

[@Lockbar]

Germans looked too clean and sporty.....needed to still be a bit more humble.

[@mariathrun5472]

28.04.1943 ,Berlin zgilotynowno 40 letniego Konstantego Drozdowskiego - Warszawa Matka Boza zapowiada objawienia w Siekierkach 3.05.1943-1949

[@mariathrun5472]

8.05.1945 ..Berlin .- przestepca likwidator Andrzej Wyszynski