Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 603/1961 18.08.1961

01 Berlin, August 13. The way to freedom is blocked. -Disused s-Bahn station, train signal on "Hold", label: "Inputs", tanks, large shield: "Street of the 17th of June", men in front of the Brandenburg Gate Quadriga, newspaper, Vopos on the Brandenburg Gate, Vopos pull Stacheldrahtverhau over Potsdamer Platz, observant soldiers, Allied soldiers at the big users, helicopter over the town, roadblock of barbed wire and trucks Allied policeman, car traffic in front of the victory column, Soviet war memorial with Russian Doppelposten, patrouillierender, Swivel of the Memorial on the Brandenburg Gate West terrain Vopo post chain, front of Brandenburg Gate, excited crowd on the West side of the Brandenburg Gate, young people began chanting (: "Referendum") at the forefront of Western policeman, Vopos or Members of the Betriebskampfgruppen with holding out gun, West Berlin brandishing Pfuirufen, Wasserwefer of the policeman in use, West Berlin police pushing back crowds to behind the Soviet war memorial, West Berlin standing behind a barrier, transparent: "There is only a Germany" before West police, views of the Brandenburg Gate and East Berlin area.

02. Sicily: Etna spews back fire and lava. -Night shots of the eruption of Mount Etna lava masses, 2 cameramen with luggage work up at the crater, cascading lava masses, steaming volcano.

03. West point: the Bundeswehr as a guest of the United States Army cadet. -An officer Cadet of the Bundeswehr swing on ropes into the water, German and American Cadets in the joint construction of an infantry running bridge over a river, common lessons in the outdoor run bridge handshake between German and American soldiers, soldiers in swimming trunks close.

04. Freeport: Drinking water from the sea. -Kennedy, screen sitting puts people before the "water works", tour, at a desk on a button. Once, the plant, which turns Meerwassei into drinking water; Children at a drinking water dispenser, trinkenaus cups, man holding a toddler in her arms and can drink from a Cup.

05. Geesthacht: Greater maneuverability by new barge flotilla. -Is an errant flotilla on the river Elbe coupled motor ship inland at the wharf, barge, hydraulic clutch, great.

06. Stuttgart-Sindelfingen: international interest for Mercedes Benz program. -Mercedes 300 se, light-alloy engine, large, Mercedes 190 D, Karl Kling with some men's tour.

07. Horst-Emscher: flat racing to the Aral-Pokal. -Winner: "opponent" (Jockey: Peter Alafi). Narration see race.

08th Reutlingen: 74. German Swimming Championships. -200 m crawl of the masters: Winner: Gerhard Hetz(mit 2 Min. 4,7 Europa Rekord). 2nd: Hans-Joachim Klein. 200 m men's Butterfly: Winners: Hermann Lotter. 2.: blank. Women's diving: Winner: Ingeborg Busch (slow motion). Diving men's: Winner: Horst Rosenfeldt, 2nd: stapler (slow motion).

Initial brand 7,-m disable of the zone border Berlin camera: Pahl, Jürgens eruption of Mount Etna origin: iNcom German Cadet d. Bundeswehr i. West point origin: Metro drinking water production from d. sea origin: Metro barge flotilla on d. Elbe camera: Seib new Mercedes camera: strong horse racing to Aral-Pokal, Horst-Emsch.
Camera: Seib, Jürgens, German Swimming Championship Rieck camera: strong, Vlasdeck Tower and springboard diving, Reutlingen camera: strong, Vlasdeck final brand 3.1 m

Berlin, August 13 the way to freedom is blocked Berlin, the divided German capital, was struck by a new terrorist action of Pankower regime. August 13, 1961 was the blockade of West Berlin. Armored vehicles roll into the sector boundary. 100,000 armed of the Soviet zonal people's Army occupy the eastern sector to finally cut off all escape routes. East Berlin turned into a military camp. Tanks of the type T 34 and also motorized troops of the Soviets are in all districts in ambush hidden, to stifle a possible revolution in the bud. The police of Ulbricht interrupts the S - and u-Bahn traffic between sectors, rings to East Berlin Ulbricht tried with a Stacheldrahtverhau to suppress the "referendum with the feet" of the inhabitants of the zone. In defiance of the four power statute signed by the Soviets, Pankow explained the sector boundary to the State border and the Allies need to see how to pulled a Stacheldrahtverhau located by the old imperial capital. What was believed nobody was possible, was about night reality: barricades separating the urban residents. -As the news of the incredible event making the rounds, tens of thousands to the Brandenburg Gate, stream past at the Soviet war memorial in the Tiergarten, where Red Army soldiers stand guard as if nothing had happened. The resentment among the population is growing by the hour. Hundreds of West Berlin police can keep an excited crowd in place only with difficulty. A day later water cannons move immediately on the sector boundary. To avoid any possible violent conflict, the West Berlin police push back the crowds to behind the Soviet war memorial. In West Berlin, there is bitterness, despair is spreading in East Berlin.

The current information Sicily: Etna spits fire over Sicily again. In glowing avalanches, the lava into the Valley. The sight of the old volcano At night is frighteningly beautiful. Our Italian colleagues worked up as close as possible along the lava flows and rock avalanches at the crater. Fortunately, the rage of the mountain remained this time academic. No one was hurt.

West point: a delegation of the German armed forces - their accompanying officer cadets not excluding fell into the water on the training ground of the American West point school. An American Cadet was given in each German Ensign. Together, they built a gangway for infantrymen in seven minutes and 37 seconds and thus undercut the West point record by 18 seconds. German soldiers said the visit of West Point cadets in the Federal Republic and concluded soon good friendship with her American arms Companion.

Freeport: In Washington President Kennedy on a button pressed, and several thousand kilometres away, in Freeport on the Atlantic coast, began the first American plant to work that turns sea water into drinking water. This massive work is an old dream of mankind in fulfillment. This performance of American science will outweigh coming generations ago missiles and nuclear bombs. She can banish the thirst of the Earth.

Stuttgart: the interest of the international community remains sure of the German automotive industry. That was proved once again, when Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart-Sindelfingen presented the Mercedes 300 SE with the new light alloy engine and the 190 D. Ex-racing driver Karl Kling knew the new from the Mercedes racing car engines engine developed for series production, especially to appreciate. The economic 190 D in a new guise is To find surely still more friends than the big brother with the 160 horsepower.

Geesthacht: A technical novelty for the North German inland waterways was tested on the upper Elbe in Geesthacht. The flotilla, a construction of Preussag, allows that a barge, in the jargon of "Lighter" is called, No more pulled from his snowmobile, but pushed. The hydraulic clutch as a Verblndungsglied of the two ships allows a better maneuverability on narrow channels than ever before.

Sport of the week flat races: start band up to the big race for the Aral-Pokal in Horst-Emscher in Gelsenkirchen. The Thoroughbred can reach speeds up to 60 km/h with its a horsepower after all. Spellbound the audience followed a race that the Derby winner "Baalim" is a clear favourite. Still, no. 8, Waldfrieder "Mirabello" makes the pace for his stable companion "Baalim", whose feared rivale "Wind break" is in the top flight, with. In the last arc, "Baalim" - No. 7 - briefly assumes the leadership - his victory seems certain. But the situation is changing in the inlet line. Requested by "Starosta" vigorously "Wind break" comes up outside, followed closely by "Opponent". And the unexpected is happening now: the little bet outsider "Opponent" - white Noseband - passes to the favourites and proposes also "wind break" around a neck. -This victory brings 35.000,--mark the owner. Let the Brown Stallion strolls under his Jockey Peter Alafi back to the scale.

Swimming: Mark vases start to the men's in the Reutlingen swimming pool 200 metres crawl. To the 74. Go to the German League title in the floating this race was one of the few sensational highlights that this event provided the friends of wet sport. The eighteen year old Gerhard scratched smear from court evenly like a machine. When he posted that he had cut off not only his strongest opponent, Hans-Joachim Klein, and won the title, but with less than 2.5 minutes to set up a new European record.
200 m butterfly of men's, one of the most stressful, but also visually interesting competitions of the Championships. Also this fight ended with a victory of the Süddeutsche - before the Augsburg blank Hermann Lotter from Munich of German champion.
With special pleasure, not only our cameras focused on the sports growth of the ladies who elaborately and elegantly competed for the title in the competition. Ingeborg Busch out of Mannheim was the title of a German Champion in this discipline. The gentlemen here jump although not so deep, but as shown in SLO-MO, not less elaborate. The Berlin stapler stabbed clean to the second place. Horst Rosenfeldt but jumped out 6 points more and became German champion.

Date of Release:

18.08.1961

Year of Production:

1961

Camera Work:

Jürgens; Pahl, Georg; Rieck, Hans Jürgen; Seib, Gerhard; Starke, Rainer; Vlasdeck, Willy

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Incom; Metro

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German