UFA-Dabei 722/1970 26.05.1970

Kassel: May 21, 1970, meeting Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph press conference: Willy Brandt after his return from Kassel. Willy Brandt, tall in microphones, actuality speaks: "I think no one is can compete us goodwill just to Kassel. The road to contractual arrangements between two German States will be long and difficult, time is not automatically for the reason and peace." Kassel: Helicopter in the air before the Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. Cameramen and photographers running onto the lawn. Brandt gets out of the helicopter, welcome. Brandt laughing, close. Brandt shakes hands Kassel citizens, several settings. Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe railway station: Crowd behind barriers with banners. People with megaphones in the crowd. Young people raising fists, chanting, o-ton: "highly, highly Willi Stoph!" Brandt with accompaniment on the platform before the incoming train. Cameramen and photographers. Stoph rising winemakers from the compartment, behind him. Handshakes Brandt and Stoph. Both leave the platform. He should raise the hand salute, both get in car, with a towel-waving crowd. Caravan of "White mice" escorted drives through streets lined with audience and protesters. A man from the front car is pushed down, total. Police officers To try to clear the roadway. Various settings of protesters and police officers in the crowd. Policeman accuses man of roadway. Leading group column of "White mice" close. Stoph and accompanied by step out of the car in front of the Castle Hotel. Hotel, half total. Brandt and Stoph in front of the hotel, half total. Hotel with two German flags and crowd. Inside: Brandt and Stoph and winemakers enter meeting room. All take place. Brandt is a paper on the table he should. Demonstrations: Actuality (unintelligible). Marching with flags, posters and banners seen from above. Various inscriptions readable, for example "recognition + waiver = betrayal". A number of cars of the NPD, saying "Equal rights for all of Germany". "Desk murderer out - Oder-Neisse, never limit". Chants. Fluttering East German flag, close. Flagpole in front of the hotel: three young men tear the flag down and shred them, they are pushed by police. Reporters group. Flagpole with new flag is raised. Both poles in front of the hotel. Inside: Brandt and Stoph each other sitting opposite. Brandt in the profile, great. Smoking a cigarillo. Stoph, tall and smiling. Press Conference: Conrad Ahlers. Ahlers, large, original sound: "it has been clearly shown: the Federal Government is flexible and the DDR is rigid and stubborn, this is the situation." TV on the lawn in front of the hotel of journalists surrounded. Long shot of the press conference. Question and answer of the Ahlers actuality: "You ask, as you are this term - also for organization stop the freedom of association right after your terms?" - "I spoke not of opposition freedom, but freedom of demonstration." - "it's all the same. Where to stop, where is the limit? Where is the limit?"-"is the border where infringe existing laws."-"last night Mr by Thadden has operated an absolute murder smear campaign against our Chairman of the Council of Ministers Stoph. Is that still the freedom that is allowed?"-"I think that for an impossible procedure; "I mean the manifestation of Lord of Thadden and what is in the NAZI newspaper, but I must confess to, without being lawyers, that can be as compatible with our laws." Hall of the press, several settings. Journalists at typewriters, one large. And on the slopes out. Spokesman choir of young people: "Nazis out, Nazis out!" By Thadden, big, behind microphones, o-ton: "who recognises the GDR, then at the end of Berlin left the leaves and leaving Berlin the Western powers!" Intermediate cutting protesters with posters, swivel on Dr. Haese, individual protesters interviewed, o-ton: "Are you against the meeting tomorrow in Kassel?" - "but no answer give"I would at any time for the meeting, if it had a positive agenda..."-!" - "I give an answer of course, if I am asked... I would at any time..." "."-"The tampered with but just afterwards! Please be quiet!"-"I would be at any time for this meeting, if it had an agenda in terms of the preamble of the basic law, it revolves solely around the recognition of Communist diktats in Germany."- Excuse me, what or what you demonstrate here?" - "for Germany, against the wall, for unity, for a United Germany." - "are you against the meeting tomorrow in Kassel?" - "I have my relatives in East Berlin, to which I can not. I... Red out red out!" Protesters break through police chain on the way to the Memorial for the victims of fascism. Memorial, 2 police officers on the pedestals. Memorial inside. GDR journalists by Dr Jane asked, o-ton: "What is your impression after the first half of the day?" - "My impression of this monument is that it is unkempt and clearly was not used for years." - "and the meeting itself, what do have to tell you?" - "that's all in our opinions, our questions and our appearance to exactly identify." - "and what do you think of the impression of the population and the demonstrations here?" - "I no word to said", that I am willing to To give you an interview!" Wilde demonstration scenes and chanting, police scuffle. Police overpower bearded man with helmet, close. Parts of banners are put by a police officer in gully. Memorial visit: motorcycle escort accompanied Stophs car to the Memorial in the evening. Stoph and Brandt at the Memorial. Two men wearing wreath, behind Stoph and Brandt wreath loop: "Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic". Stoph and Brandt bow down; Return of the car by police on foot accompanied. Railway station: Brandt and Stoph laughing, great. Clock shows 10:07. Handshake Brandt - Stoph on the compartment window. Departure of the train. Press Conference: Willy Brandt after his return from Kassel. Willy Brandt, tall in microphones, original sound speaks: "short and sweet, we stay with our concept, our principles, our contract elements and In addition, whether new meeting or not, whether new meetings soon or not, we are whether others are Instead of his sometime Let me see or not - to say: is n would like to ' know bit more, because here there is in my note of Erfurt: the contents of the bottle we are interested more than label"", what is stuck on it."

Kassel, 21 May 1970 meeting between Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph confrontation of German contradictions

"I think nobody can make us the good will compete just to Kassel. Gone will be long and difficult to contractual arrangements between the two German States, time is not automatically for the reason and peace."
When Willy Brandt landed on the eve of before the Schloß Wilhelmshöhe Kassel Summit, was still nothing forces feel that organized themselves against reason and peace. The friendly reception by Kassel citizens was a deceiving mood barometer. At the small suburban station, not just a second attempt started approach it began also an escalation of contradictions in Germany this morning. Willy Brandt looks forward to this day without illusions. 9 weeks of incitement to hatred of the German Eastern policy by reactionary forces in the Federal Republic between Erfurt and Kassel, and the massive propaganda campaigns in the East made it appear doubtful until the last moment whether Willi Stoph would come to Kassel. The convoy makes its way through a cordon of protesters, who have chosen this day for a show before the international Massenkommunikationsmitteln. Minorities such as the Viking saga to the example-who knows it already? Her construction leader caused this incident on the Wilhelmshöher Allee. Despite the emotions on the street, the two conversation partners To try to establish the factual and sober atmosphere of Erfurt. With a 20-point programme Willy Brandt came to Kassel to improve inner-German relations. Willi Stoph enters the Castle Hall with the demand after international recognition of East Germany, before improving relations be discussed can two positions that leave little hope and seem to To give them legal, which keep a communication to be impossible. A distorted picture of German reality unfolds, meanwhile, in the streets of the city. Like rarely before it comes to a confrontation of the extremists of the left and right. They are from all over at home. The defamation campaigns culminating in the flag incident outside the Conference Hotel. Three right-wing youths To give rise, the image of the fascist revanchists picture reporters to accentuate State Federal Republic. Blamabler incident, charged to the conversation. At this time, the fiasco in the air is. A smile for the cameras is able not to reinterpret the first balance sheet of the Federal German Government spokesman. "It has been clearly shown: the Federal Government is flexible and the DDR is rigid and stubborn, this is the situation."
At his press conference, Conrad Ahlers is a German war of words about freedom of the press and right to demonstrate before the international journalists.
"You ask, as you are this term - also for freedom of Association for law would differentiate as you previously cited. What limits the freedom of association right after their terms? "I spoke not of organization freedom, but freedom of demonstration."
"It's all the same. Where to stop, where is the limit? Where is the limit?"
"The border is where existing laws are violated,"yesterday evening Mr by Thadden has operated an absolute murder smear campaign against our Chairman of the Council of Ministers Stoph. Is that still the freedom which is permitted?"
"I think that for an impossible procedure: I mean the manifestation of Lord of Thadden and what is in the NAZI newspaper, but I must confess to, without being a lawyer, that it can be compatible with our laws." Freedom - it is said that after a quote of Rosa Luxemburg in many press reports of this day - must be always the freedom of dissenters. In many places, Kassel gave opportunity to think. "Who recognises the GDR, then at the end of Berlin left the leaves and leaving Berlin the Western powers!"
"Are you against the meeting tomorrow in Kassel?"
"I would be at any time for the meeting, if it had a positive agenda - but no answer! -I give you an answer of course if I'm asked! -I would at any time - he manipulates but just afterwards! Please be quiet! -I would be at any time for this meeting, if it had an agenda in terms of the preamble of the basic law, it revolves solely around the recognition of Communist diktats in Germany."
"Excuse me, what or which demonstrate here?"
"For Germany, against the masons, for unity, for a United Germany."
"Are you against the meeting tomorrow in Kassel?"
"I have my relatives in East Berlin, which I can't do."I... "Red out red out, red, out!"
The breakthrough of the demonstrators at the Memorial for the victims of fascism prevented Willi Stoph in the afternoon to lay a wreath. GDR journalists for an occasion more, to argue against the Federal Republic - in front of our cameras, but they fled to in the non-binding.
"What is your impression after the first half of the day?"
"My impression of this Memorial is that en is unkempt and clearly was not used for years."
"And the meeting itself, what have to say?"
"That's all in our opinions, our questions and our appearance to recognize."
"And what do you think of the impression of the population and the demonstrations here?"
"I have no word to said, that I am willing to To give you an interview!"
At this point, the battles of megaphones and sound trucks culminate in violence. A few hundred poster wearers who To want know anything about the State of the talks and perhaps also know, dominate the scene. Only in the evening, as the extremists have already left Kassel in all directions, Willi Stoph comes to get after the wreath-laying ceremony. Willy Brandt accompanied him - a gesture reminiscent of their common struggle against Hitler, which helps to solve the tension of this day. It says "It is not to" this evening. "After Erfurt and Kassel we know more of each other" - thoughts that pleasantly apart from the confrontation of German divisions on the streets of Kassel. The "Auf Wiedersehen", spoken at this very moment, has often been interpreted as communiqué. "Short and sweet, we stay our contract items our principles with our concept, and In addition, whether new meeting or not, whether new meetings soon or not, we are whether others are Instead of his sometime Let me see or not - to say: we want n' know bit more, because here there is in my note of Erfurt: the contents of the bottle we're interested in more than the label"", what is stuck on it."

Date of Release:

26.05.1970

Year of Production:

1970

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German