This movie clip shows people in East Germany attempting to cross the Berlin Wall, but they are killed by guards before they can make it across, to the horror of the people on the train. This clip can be used in a discussion about the oppression people in East Germany in the aftermath of World War II.
A German who recently lost a son to the war defaces a postcard of Hitler with a young girl. There were Germans who actively and passively resisted the Nazi Government.
Amid posturing between the United States and the Soviet Union construction begins on the Berlin Wall, dividing the city physically between the Cold War ideologies.