{"id":148864,"date":"2015-05-05T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=878c870ad09a3afe19d63c66cb88fa3d"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:28:52","slug":"unique-historic-color-video-shows-berlin-just-2-months-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/unique-historic-color-video-shows-berlin-just-2-months-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique historic color video shows Berlin just 2 months after WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/255613-berlin-ww2-aftermath-video\/\">RT<\/a>) &#8211; New footage has emerged of Berlin in the aftermath of World War II. The video, filmed in July 1945, shows famous landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag in ruins as ordinary citizens try to go about their everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>The video, shot around\u00a0two months after the city fell in 1945, shows the utter\u00a0destruction the German capital underwent during WWII. Berlin had\u00a0already been divided into four zones by the Allied powers, and\u00a0signs in Russian had already begun to be erected in the Soviet\u00a0sphere of influence.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, some of\u00a0which had never previously been published, has an almost\u00a0apocalyptic feel, as the residents of Berlin walk around the\u00a0streets, despite the debris everywhere to be seen. Trams are\u00a0already running through Alexanderplatz as a mix of soldiers and\u00a0civilians try to get from A to B.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the video, aerial footage shows the sheer\u00a0destruction of the Unter den Linden Boulevard, leading away from<br \/>\nthe Brandenburg Gate. Buildings and blocks of flats were razed,\u00a0while rubble and burnt out cars littered the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>The video was uploaded by Konstantin von zur Muehlen, who founded\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronos-media.de\/\">Chronos\u00a0Media<\/a> in 2001. It has access to historic film footage, which\u00a0includes over 7 million meters of film roll dating back over a\u00a0century. Its material from its archives has been purchased and<br \/>\nexchanged around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RT) &#8211; New footage has emerged of Berlin in the aftermath of World War II. The video, filmed in July 1945, shows famous landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag in ruins as ordinary citizens try to go about their everyday lives. The video, shot around\u00a0two months after the city fell in 1945, shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":148893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}