Summary

People carry their belongings as they are forced to leave the British sector of the Russian zone in Berlin

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 36248
Clip SR004748_01_07.mov
Date 6/1/1952
Title People carry their belongings as they are forced to leave the British sector of the Russian zone in Berlin
Description MS Furniture on ground outside wire fence / MS man carrying big bag on shoulder walking among trees past camera / MS sign lettered "Warning" repeated in German, boy dragging beyond downed trees used as blockade / MS man walking by, followed by two young boys carrying belongings walking by / MS man carrying mattresses walking by, another man carrying mattresses walking over downed trees, and walking past camera / MS young girl putting chair on top of mattress and running away / WS three men putting down sofa with belongings on top at the sign lettered "You are forbidden to proceed beyond the point", men walking away / MS young boy and little girl sitting on top of mattresses and belongings with warning sign in the back of little girl / WS man carrying mattress on back walking up and putting it down on top of other belongings on sofa near the warning sign, soldier walking in background / WS man carrying furniture on his shoulder followed behind by young girl carrying belongings in arms / MS man in suit and hat talking to group of displaced people including children / CU two men and a woman listening, man wipes sweat from forehead / CU woman listening / Note: exact day not known
Country German Democratic Republic
City East Berlin

Keywords

archival
newsreel
children
German language
warnings
signs
barriers
furniture
displaced persons
Cold War
men
carrying
shoulders
possessions
sweat
zones
United Kingdom
Russia
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