24 hours of Le Mans (motorcycle race) origin: Gaumont shipping Museum Bremerhaven camera: Rahim 100 years Adenauer origin: div. archive material, cut copy not labeled at the beginning and end of total length
This sport: 24 hours for motorcycles elephant rally in Le Hans. The desire, the once powerful breath Beefy engines the chance to give United fans and drivers. 24 hours not - as usual - for formula I, but Le Mans, racing cars for overweight motorcycles. A speed - and endurance test for the powerful engines of 750 and 100 cubic centimeter class. The numbers 1, 2, and 8 have quickly from midfield set itself off - for experts no surprise. Their riders ride in the motorcycle racing Japanese Kawasaki, long a set change that move machines on the slopes - 24 hour long, day and night. In the dark of night, the ambition of many drivers cools down. The next morning, the field of 60 starters has thinned sharply. There are still 24 their heavy mill undeterred moving through the curves, men and machines in the self-imposed Zermürbungstets. Winner will be who has ridden the most kilometres in 24 hours. Kawasaki's are - as expected -. The only European machine, a slump in the Japanese front managed a third-place finish was a BMW from Germany.
This culture: Museum of shipping the 'Retchel Daashka' a lower Saxony guest host with narrowly before scrapping had saved. Now anchor the three-masted barque in addition to other decommissioned vessels in a disused docks. Showpiece in a Maritime Museum that wraps like a moat Bremerhaven best original structure: the German Maritime Museum. Hans Scharoum, Builder of the Berlin Philharmonic. There, a student of him designed it completed. The formal language of the Berlin architect had angeten's Bremerhaven PACI. For several weeks, visitors can check whether the building can assert itself between between old windjammers, whalers and lightships nostalgia en miniature: carefully crafted models reveal shipping history, where original certificates are missing. The claim is far. The German Maritime Museum wants to teach from the beginnings to the present, from simple River boat up to the full container. If you like, can discover in between the captain in itself - the commando for remote controlled model boats. Maritime does not - and fascinated. Shipping, made tangible. The Museum played, entertained, informed - but also research. The development of the vessels, their construction, shape, capacity and much more are the subject of ship archaeology. What drove people to venture from the solid ground on the water and what human ingenuity invented to triumph over the sea: in Bremerhaven it will feel visible, researched and prepared by scientists who undertakes a tradition established in the 30-ies. Schiffahrts-Museum in Bremerhaven is considered the legitimate successor of the German Museum, destroyed during the war for Oceanography in Berlin. Future jewel of the collection is a 600-year-old Hanseatic COG. from the river Weser. She will be rebuilt in an artificially generated and constant held climate with high humidity, so that the ancient wood do not expire. Restoration time: about 20 years.
This policy: the old man of Rhöndorf ' I am born, ladies and gentlemen, on January 5th I ask 1876th, or an older Member, Mr Lady... I am, obviously, ladies and gentlemen, that I'm only.'
Corny Konrad Adenauer was also large. He spent his last years as a simple member of the German Bundestag. He remains the name of the first German Chancellor with the reconstruction of the shattered Germany for always connected. Chancellor of the early years. He created the basis. His successors further built on the. The political and economic importance of the Federal Republic is unthinkable without Konrad Adenauer. The former American Secretary of State Dulles called him one of the outstanding statesmen of the post-war period. At his home in Rhöndorf, Adenauer has spent most of his life, where he also died. An anniversary exhibition for his 100th birthday in the below nearby Adenauer Museum will soon be as to visit exhibition in Germany. A political life in brief. At the age of 41, Adenauer laying the groundwork for modern urban planning as Lord Mayor in Cologne. Hitler chases him out of Office. After the long break from political Adenauer starts his second after the war, his actual career. He is co-founder of the CDU, then its Chairman and 1949 the first Chancellor of the new Federal Republic. Old, as he makes his oath of Office, he is 73.
The regaining of sovereignty and political confidence of foreign countries will be the main goal of its foreign policy. His creed: only as an integral part of the Western international community, the Federal Republic's future is secure. He leads the German State in the coal and Steel Union, in NATO, in the EEC. On many trips, Adenauer consolidates the new foreign relations. Early on, he woos France. The geschichstbewusste Rhinelander know how much force both countries in the fight against each other have wasted. French Ambassador Francois-Poncét accompanied him during his first visit to France.
in 1953, Adenauer visited the United States as the first German head of Government. President Eisenhower is a glittering reception Adenauer. Two years later the Chancellor in the Soviet Union travels. After hard negotiations give the Kremlin leader: Adenauer accepted diplomatically. Relations, for the Soviet Union dismisses all German prisoners of war.
Charles de Gaulle in Bonn. The French encouraged the Germans again patriotic to think. The festive final act takes place in the Cathedral of Reims: two old men with each other close friendship for their countries. A consultation process sealed the reconciliation with France.
He plays summer boules in the Italian Cadenabbia. Are cameramen and photo reporters always. The mid is still the dominant figure in Germany's political life. The rose breeder reaps honours and awards where he also comes. During his tenure, the first Chancellor has become legend. in 1962, he resigns from his post. The Bundestag passed him: on September 13, 1949 you have arose from your seat to take the place of the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Today you leave it again, with a historical performance, unbent and in honor. Konrad Adenauer has rendered to the fatherland.
