Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 269/1955 25.03.1955

01 Lufthansa - 1 flight from Hamburg to Frankfurt start flying twin-engined Convair Lufthansa. Aerial view of Hamburg. Stewardeß distributed to the passengers of the international press menu. Crossing of the Rhine at Düsseldorf. Steward is pouring drinks. An English and a German pilot in the cockpit. Extended flaps for landing. Waving on the Rhein Main Frankfurt airport. Passengers exited the plane. Handshake with the flight attendant and the two pilots.
(30 m) 02 Washington: publication of the secret documents of the Yalta Conference review: Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, where the restructuring of the political and economic conditions in Europe and Asia should be decided. The brochures that the secret documents were published.
(15 m) 03 Bad Godesberg: signpost meet representatives of East German FDJ and the Federal Youth Council youth hostel. Cameramen in space. Representatives of the associations in conversation, great.
(15 m) 04. Frankfurt: return of Dr. Otto Strasser from the emigration of Dr. Otto Strasser, former employee of Adolf Hitler and leader of the so-called black front, who emigrated in 1933, returned after 22 years in the Federal Republic of Germany and declared to journalists continue to politically want to press.
(12 m) 05. United States: new rocket "Electron Hawk" missile is attached to aircraft. U.S. hunters will start. Radar screen on dash brings the enemy aircraft in sight. Automatic rocket firing and electronic steering. Enemy aircraft is hit and crashes.
(18 m) 06. Geneva: international car show car on turntable. Motor. Two halves of cars are assembled. New small cars and luxurious model. Roof closes automatically. Mercedes sports car. Ford cars.
(25 m) 07. Yugoslavia: flood disaster flooded land next to the railway embankment. Destroyed houses after dam break. Water level of a river just under the bridge. People on rafts. Bauer leads cows through the water. Horse-drawn carriage travels through water. People from the water desert escape on truck.
(19 m) 08 Sicily: landslide landslide endangered houses be cleared of people. People throw furniture and clothes out of the window and balcony. People wear furniture and flee. Houses on the edge of a precipice.
(17 m) 09 Cologne: 202 Wednesday conversation: death penalty, yes or no?
Barred window of a detention center, pan. Prisoners during a tour at the prison courtyard. Search posters of murderers and thugs. Photos of murdered. Criminals running in cell. Killing processes. Guillotine. Death masks of decapitated in the Museum. Annemarie RENGER as a listener. Discussion in the Wednesday conversation original sound bookseller Ludwig: "death penalty Yes or no?" To do this, I give the floor to Mr Professor Carlo Schmid. "Here you go, Herr Professor." Interview Carlo Schmid: "in the past it was believes that if the human race really should develop one of the first steps, which must be done in a motion on the freedom, humanity and, which is that you start first of all, to kill more people. I would like to give the honour of the first step not the rabble for my part in these things, but I mean, the honetten people to claim and should take this honor, as their spokesman, the State. The arguments: For the introduction of the death penalty some things will be said. Because first of all, there is the argument of basic ethics. People ask and this is without a doubt something very questions value, because a murder demands but Atonement. The question whether this may, meet us whether this area of blood magic, as I would like to call it, is sufficient to justify a thing like this. The second argument, that appears in the field, a rational argument is the argument of deterrence and the securing of the society." Bookseller Ludwig: "I ask to speak." Older man, passionate: "woe, when an innocent man is the victim a false justice. I would like to be not the poor victim, one morning ceremony led by men with cylinders and Glacé Gloves to the Richtblock, after this same victim previously for months waiting for this hour, because it's double, triple, ten murder." The audience clapping. Man: "you would have to go to that the criminal itself deserves and it also still so many values creates a living, so that he can make amends for at least some of this crime." Young man: "As the killer with the murder which falls back level has been the society in the humanitarian development through the millennia through, so also the society itself falls back I believe these levels by again picks up on the ancient, standing at the beginning, not at the end of the cultural law of"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"and falls of blood magic." Woman: "I see no other way as death penalty, to protect the society from thugs as nobody can give the guarantee to the effect that this violence criminals never comes out of prison." Carlo Schmid: "I think that you can just decide this question, the problem in the last of the religious and the ethical collection of people."
(128 m)

Title: Lufthansa camera: strong, Stoll Kurz exposed: Yalta origin: Metro youth meeting in Bad Godesberg camera: Stoll, basic Strasser camera: strong rocket origin: Metro car Salon origin: Cine journal flood in Serbia origin: Novosti landslide in Sicily origin: iNcom the death penalty camera: Luppa, Stoll, basic conclusion

In the spring now, they fly home again - the silver birds of Deutsche Lufthansa. For the first time, one of the new Convair machines started with invited guests on the route Hamburg-Frankfurt. The tireless and always helpful flight attendant exemplary strives for the well-being of the passengers. Breakfast is barely over, because already the Rhine at Düsseldorf is reached. There's just enough time for a leisurely cocktail. -The journey through the air is short. Already, the machine tends to the Frankfurt airport. After this maiden flight, it is properly go then from 1 April; and this is no April Fool's joke, but the serious beginning of the scheduled air service in the new Deutsche Lufthansa. Washington: Ten years ago Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta, to about the new rules of political and economic conditions in Europe and Asia after the victories of the allies to advise.-the surprising publication of previously secret protocols at the time of the current political tension was felt by world public opinion as a sensation.

Bad Godesberg in the Youth Hostel in Bad Godesberg was the scene of a meeting between representatives of the ostzonalen FDJ and the West German Federal Youth Council. It was the first meeting of the youth associations of East and since 1949.-to an understanding could not get even this time West. On political issues, the spirits were ruled.

Frankfurt: The ghosts of the past were awake as Dr. Otto Strasser, the former leader of the "black front", returned to Germany. The close aides of Hitler in the emigration was 22 years ago. The now 58 year old thinks once again in Germany to politically need to operate.

United States:, A new sinister weapon against air attacks led the US air force. The mechanism of the deadly "Hawks" is shown here for the first time. A radar screen on the dashboard tracks down the enemy and bring the Hunter in shooting position. Automatically dissolves the "Falcon" and Pounces on the opponent.-not a plane, it might fly as it can avoid this terrible stories of death.

Switzerland in Geneva there were 25. International Motor Show to see. Over 100 cars were their most interesting page. Especially the notable new supermini.-your great colleagues, the chrome-plated and polished pipe dreams, bribed by their almost fabulous comfort.-attention was the new sports car model of Mercedes-Ford showed in the United States against Mr., what he means by beauty of form. Half-giant fish, half jet plane - so the dream car of tomorrow presented to us.

Yugoslavia: there was flooding in Serbia. After a surprising melting of snow, the Morava River rose up to a never measured level. A larger dam broke, there were no ways to stop the massive, all-destroying water masses. The unbound item destroyed hundreds of homes. Vast areas had to be cleared by the population.

Sicily: The small town Naso found near Messina came a large landslide. Several houses were hanging from one minute to the other in the air and had as soon as possible be granted to. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt. A large area of fertile land was devastated by the landslide. 80 families were forced to leave their homes. The damage amounts to over 2 million deutsche mark. Death penalty: Yes or no that close walls of prisons many of the environment who will never again live in freedom after the verdict of the courts, criminal, people who were murderers and facing the human society be protected must.-in the face of horrible murders is one of the question whether it is enough to isolate the criminals, or whether a final conviction is attached , to the most controversial and most in Germany. Against the background of these adequate to the present murder processes - against a backdrop of but also of the guillotine used a few years ago - and against the background of the death masks of decapitated crime museums occured Wednesday conversation in Cologne under direction of bookseller Ludwig a passionate discussion. (Original sound to end).

Date of Release:

25.03.1955

Year of Production:

1955

Camera Work:

Grund; Luppa; Starke, Rainer; Stoll, Erich

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Cine Journal; Incom; Novosti; Metro

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German