UFA-Wochenschau 264/1961 16.08.1961

01 German swim - Championships in Reutlingen, the men's 200 m crawl: launch big, start and persecutions, stop the winner Gerhard Hetz with new European record.
100 m backstroke of women: start, close-up, turn, stop the winner of Helga Schmidt.
(10:00:16 10:01:18) 02. art and diving in Reutlingen slow of men from the Tower, ladies of the Dreimeterbrett, 2. Ingeborg Busch, winner Angelika Hellwig, diving men's: second Friedrich, victory jump by Herbert Barendt, and as an added bonus a triple jump from the tower.
(10:01:18 10:02:21) 3rd artistic gymnastics European Championships in Luxembourg all recordings in slow motion: 2nd in the overall standings, 5 bars, rings, Philipp Fürst is on the pommel horse, the 3 Carmunicci on the parallel bars, the 2. Yurij Titow on the horizontal bar, the winner of Miroslaw Cairns on the bars, applause, Cairns kisses Titov.
(10:02:21 10:03:53) 04. Astronaut Titov in Moskau Chruschtschow welcomed the astronauts German Titow with a long brother Kiss, the parents of Titov, Titov kisses his family, spectators, Gagarin embraces Titov. Mass welcome the astronauts on the red square, Khrushchev, Gagarin and Titov greet Titov from the stands, passing with flags and banners of the astronauts, great passing, Titov and Gagarin, lot, Khrushchev, smiling.
(10:03:53 10:04:44) 05. Eastern refugees and blocking the sector boundaries, first report of the construction of the wall: young man behind barbed wire (the face on the border), Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde: shield, tent camp, receiving food, refugee and toddler sitting on their luggage, kid in the cart, refugee family on a s-Bahn station, rise in tram, arrives in Marienfelde. Situations: Exchange section between patrouillierendem Vopo behind Stacheldrahttverhau, men who read a special edition of the morning post before the Brandenburg Gate and headlines. Water cannons moving up, closed entrance of a suburban station, stops directly on the border of policeman, blank tracks, signal "Stop". Look in the East sector tanks travelled on and trucks. Vopos break up the asphalt at the Brandenburg Gate, build fences with concrete piles, roll of barbed wire, Vopos behind the fence and in a park lying, temporary wire mess blocked a road, Vopos behind it, shield "Potsdamer Platz", West Berlin, Soviet war memorial at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin police cars, tanks and two Russian soldiers on the Memorial, Allied soldiers and scenes behind the barbed wire, helicopter, post chain Vopos and Betriebskampfgruppen at the Brandenburg Gate, Look through the gate, several grades of West Berliners at the gate in the Exchange cut with the Vopos, Group West Berliners chanted: "Open the door!", West Berlin police officers, shouting "Referendum", East Berlin Betriebskampfgruppen necklace, feet large in white socks and slippers,-everything always in the exchange between East and West. Water cannons in activity in the sector border, water cannon big recent drop, with Vopos calls "open the door!" Amount will be rolled back to the "street of the 17th of June", Vopos store total to Brandenburg Gate behind the Brandenburg Gate, and the young man behind barbed wire discusses Quadriga, policeman with binoculars under a wheel of the Quadriga, post chain and number of water cannons at the Brandenburg Gate, weeping woman with Vopos in multiple settings.
(10:04:45 10:09:01)

Title brand 7, 6 m German swimming Meistersch. + Art Tower jumping, Reutlingen camera: strong, Vlasdeck artistic gymnastics European Championships, Luxembg.
Camera: Basic, Zakariah astronaut Titov in Moscow origin: Sovkino East refugees + blocking the Berlin sector border + end title camera: Pahl, Pahl, Jürgens

European record which was launched and a record was in the air, as the eight competitors over 200-meter crawl in Reutlingen to German Champion swam. From the outset the Hofer Gerhard Hetz on line 4 and the Darmstadt crawl hope small pitched a tremendous pace.
At the turn of the 2nd small strikes first, but then, hate as the stronger shows. With powerful moves, he leaves the Darmstädter behind. Its 2 minutes 4.7 seconds is new European record.
Helga Schmidt confirmed in the 100 m backstroke of women's track 4 on the half of the route their favorite role... It applies first and fetches a German Champion for the 21st time.
With much improved services of art and high diver trotted out this year.
The Jaanasheen finished second in the women's springboard diving Ingeborg Busch with this one and a halffold bolts somersaults.
Still a little something stylish and balanced, the Berliner jumped Angelika Hellwig. She became German champion.
The diving of men's runner-up Friedrich from Mannheim showed not the fluid style and the degree of difficulty by far as the new German Champion Herbert Barendt laid him in his jumps.
An extra inclusive free goods for the audience was this masterful triple jump from the ten Board.

Russians dethroned 4. Coupe d'Europe Turner of Europe called the best in Luxembourg for an unofficial European Championship to the devices. The favorite, Olympic champion Caldwell, was injured and could not start.
In the face of competition from Russia, Philipp Fürst its 2nd can chalk up square on the pommel horse as a beautiful success. He was fifth in the overall standings.
Ahead of the Germans, the Italians Carminucci erturnte third place to surprise the experts.
The Russian Yurij Titow, who won the Coupe d ' Europe two years ago, is also on the high bar as a single winner not maintained. In the overall standings he had To give himself beaten Yugoslavia by the young master from.
The 23 student Miroslaw Cairns is the safest and most elegant Turner of the world instantly. Pay attention to the high degree of difficulty and the full agreement of movement and rhythm.
The Yugoslav Championship with Russian tenderness comforted the loser Titov.

Seemingly peacefully with the same tenderness, the far more famous bearer of the name Titov, the astronaut German Titow, in Moscow was celebrated. The only non-political moment of this event lasting several hours was the moment when the family Titow relieved took possession of her high-flying son. All other present should have hailed first and foremost the political impetus generated by the space flight of Vostok II. Gagarin shared its young glory gallantly with Titov. Master of the art of the Director are the Soviets always then, when it comes to mass movement to put in, where their leaders can play a picture of serene peace. But Communist flag forests and space successes can hide just as the Rapture of these people, what's going on behind that smile.

Barbed wire and armored our recordings in Marienfelde emerged two days before it happened. The refugee figures in West Berlin increased by leaps and bounds. This family is one of the last, succeeded in the escape to freedom.
The sector border was closed during the night of August 13, 1961. Guards of the people's police marched on, and stunned Sunday strollers learned in the free part of the city, that East Berlin is cordoned off.
Tanks drive to the millimetre exactly on the border of Communist domination area bordering the sector. Within hours, Pankow established an illegal state border. Stations are shut down, interrupted railway lines. With tanks of the so-called national people's army as a back breaking Vopo units the streets on and build concrete fences with barbed wire. Staggered multiple rows a strip of death, which is 400 meters wide is created in this way.
At Potsdamer Platz before the Soviet war memorial on the road of 17 June, on the Soviet post with still faces guard the first observers of the Allied forces over the extent of rights fraction is caused by the Communist measures find out.
The post chains before the Brandenburg Gate are amplified in the afternoon, and for thousands of people in the zone and East Berlin, who himself had made to use this Sunday, to escape any hope fades so.
The West Berlin remains mute. You can them see to it, that they are just as terrified as clueless. The police calls to the calm and deliberation. But slowly, the outrage of this living wall of both Volksarmisten is growing.
The Soviet zonal authorities seem true To want make any threat. The water cannons that are hard on the border, used recklessly.
This violence is an only provocation. What may their keeper think?
The protests of the eyewitnesses in the free part of town are getting louder. Young people sing the song of Germany, hundred meters across East Berlin turns into a military camp, while the Brandenburg Gate is closed. Because it was a gate to freedom for millions.
We know that this limit one day again have to fall. What remains now behind it, is silent accusation and desperate hope.

Date of Release:

16.08.1961

Year of Production:

1961

Camera Work:

Grund; Jürgens; Pahl, Georg; Starke, Rainer; Vlasdeck, Willy; Zimpel, Werner

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Sovkino

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German