DRAMATIC COLOR FOOTAGE shows a bombed-out Berlin a month after Germany’s WWII defeat (1945).

I was in Berlin in the early 60's (1963 as I recall) and as a U.S. citizen was allowed to tour East Berlin. We went on a locked tour bus, no cameras allowed, through the Berlin wall at Checkpoint Charlie and drove for about an hour around the center of East Berlin. Eighteen years after WWII had ended, many, if not most, of the destroyed buildings you see in the latter minute of the video were still there, still destroyed.

The difference between East and West was astonishing. Most of West Berlin had been rebuilt, and most of East Berlin had not. It's understandable why so many East Germans were so desperate to get over, under, or through the Wall.