Welt im Film 13/1945 10.08.1945

01 band parade by King Hakon Allied troops marching. A child gives a soldier a bouquet of flowers. Parading troops and armoured vehicles. King Hakon stands in the District of more in the gallery. Marching soldiers, laterally great. Flower tank pass.
Three warships are listing in the Sea (46 m) 02. recovery of a French warship. Pan across several destroyed ships. Close-ups of ship's hull with the name Strasbourg. The ship is used with a hawser and worked on his body.
(34 m) 03. food for Germany on the field working farmers with hoes. A farmer walks behind the plough, a horse pulls. Two oxen before an another plough. Women put seedlings in the field. Men and women during the hay harvest. A car is loaded. Potatoes are cleared from a railway wagon. People queue in front of a vegetable stand.
(24 m) 04. The Philippines will be exempt from enemy troops American forces proceed slowly in inhospitable terrain. Burned trees and shrubs. Explosions of mines or grenades. American soldiers in a gun. A wounded is carried on a stretcher and connected. Soldiers hunched over forward creeping. Tanks move forward and fire. Planes in the sky. Bombing and strikes. A mountain in the smoke disappears into the background. Battlefield with dead Japanese soldiers. Abandoned rifles and guns. Misery train of Japanese prisoners with distraught faces. Transport on trucks.
(100 m) 5th American troops on the way to the Pacific aerial photographs of a large tented camp. American soldiers from the camp climb truck and continue waving. With luggage, they go on a ship. The Jetty is gone. The soldiers waving from the ship.
(31 m) 06. The ashes of Columbus is brought to Genoa military Chapel. Flags. Colored troops marching slowly in the funeral March. There is an urn on a gun carriage. It is solemnly carried to the burial site. An officer holds a speech.
(32 m) 7th show at the Royal Air Force at an airfield onslaught of male and female troops. A flight Squadron flies past. Close-up of an airplane from the front. A soldier demonstrates the cannons. Slow pan across a military aircraft. Aircraft wheel in close-up. Aircraft start. Relay flight. Jet fighter, bombing into the sea.
(56 m) 08. The power of the allied air force map of Western Europe. In a district highlighted. Aerial photos of Stuttgart. Photographed heavy destruction from the air. Same map. Circle around Karlsruhe. Again, aerial photographs of the destroyed city. Map of Northern Italy. "Reggio" highlighted by white star. A soldier goes through unpredictable debris. Burnt out giant Hall. Same card "Milan". To see barely a house in the debris fields. Map of Japan. White arrow points to Kobe. Planes with rotating propellers. (Close-up of a propeller). Start. Several aircraft flying in the clouds. Mass bombing. Bombs mass fly to Earth. Mass explosions in the city. Poet mushroom takes each point of view.
(100 m) 09 Potsdam Conference President Truman leaves the ship and mounts a car. On the ride to the airport, waving people. He boards a plane and remains with the hat waving, stand at the entrance. The plane turns and departs. The Brandenburg Gate with war damage. Marshal Montgomery welcomes a Russian officer and honors him by putting him in a ribbon around the shoulders. Soldiers parading. Russian, American and British flags flown on tall masts. Prime Minister Churchill comes with the plane and is greeted by General Montgomery. Minister Eden comes with the plane and strides off the front. Pictures of the ruins of Berlin. People drink coffee in the open air. Churchill's Entourage through the Trümmerstraßen. A Jungezieht a cart with sacks, which is pushed by a woman. Churchill in a conversation with a Russian. People with hand carts on the street. Churchill and Eden are in front of a House. President Truman arrives by plane. Greeting and departure by car to Potsdam. Churchill and Truman on the stairs by Sancoussi. Handshake. Conference table. Stalin, Truman and Churchill in conversation, on the side. Churchill and Stalin, between them the interpreter. American, Russian and British flags in front of the building.
(156 m)

Date of Release:

10.08.1945

Year of Production:

1945

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Commissioned by:

USIS

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German