Die Zeit unter der Lupe 724/1964 10.12.1964

01 limit eastern zone inch camera. -Customs officials on the border between Germany go along. Close-up of barking German Shepherd. A customs officer sees through a pair of binoculars. Big binoculars. National police in the distance. Barbed wire on the banks of the Trave. It Ostete the water police with 02. Zollkreuzer, on board. Agitated sea behind the ship. Mine following the Soviet zone total. Ship's mast with a waving flag, radar screen is turning. Hands on the wheel of a cane. Water COP talks about the tasks of the police (original sound). Recordings by the cabin window. Propagagandamaterial is fished on a network. Plastic covers are leaflets, saying "The measure is full". Hands, studying the material. 2 paddles (large) lying on inflatable boat. 2 refugees, a young man and woman, describe their experiences (original sound). The ship's mast with the national flag.

03. jungle war Viet Nam - large helicopter - a child and a sick person be unloaded. Helicopter flies over Viet Nam. The helicopter tows away a not landed Ubschrauber.

04. Montreal - Canadian wheat for the USSR - the port facilities of Montreal. Ships at the wharf. The Russian flag, great. An employee in a large office room on the phone. A hand makes entries on a map on the wall. Punched card machine. A man pours wheat to an exam in the hand from a bag. Grain thin blows the wheat for loading into the rooms of the ship. A tug pulling the ship out of the port.

05 car with transparent front Bonn - returning March - "prosecute returnees' 'Returning March on Bonn' Meinkehrer get out of a bus. You March on the road of Rhine in Bonn. Transparent, jackets of prisoners of war. Rally on the market square of Bonn. Swivel laced shoes, with twine, crowd. Buses in long journey standing on the street. March of the war victims, some hobbling on canes, with banners.

06. go Christmas 1945-1963 - pedestrian crosswalks. Üherfüllte streets with cars and pedestrians, enlightened new wall with Christmas lights. Child by the hand of an adult. Package-supporting hands. Ih furs a showcase. Christmas crib in the shop window. Lichreklamen. individually, big, spinning Christmas advertisement at Karstadt.
Flashback to December 1945 - rise returnees with their belongings out of a train. Others go into a freight train. Trümrmerhäuser in Berlin and begin the reconstruction work. Factory shows the manufacture of pots and pans not suitable war material. Hands cut bread. A beverage is filled into a Cup. Red Kreut sisters distribute food. A child will be fed, a worker works up on the abstraction power pole. In the first show of the Munich-based radio House is a speaker at the microphone. MP soldiers on the streets.
Flashback to the Nuremberg trials. Dock with Göring, Heß and Ribbentron. Rudolf Heß speaks from the dock (original sound). Trial of the concentration camp overseer in Daahau.
Nazidolch and swastika in London at an auction. Bust of Hitler. Marshal Schujow dedicates the Memorial of the Russian army in West Berlin. Wreaths at the Memorial.
Toy duck in the hand of a worker. Simple dolls. Children receive a toy. Showcase, before children. Filled showcase today with a Teddyb är. A child from the window.

Title brand 4.6 M focus border East zone - inch camera camera: Vlasdeck Zollkreuzer in the Baltic Sea camera: Jürgens flashlights jungle war Viet Nam origin: Metro of Canadian wheat f. USSR origin: Canada returnees marched into Bonn camera: Basic, Luppa time stage Christmas 1945-1963 December 1963 camera: Zaki December 1945 December 1963 camera: Zimpel final brand 3.0

Focus on: Where is 1,200 kilometers long pulls the unnatural border through Germany, the customs officials of the Federal Republic are facing other tasks than their counterparts in the rest of the world. With their latest dreiäugigen binocular cameras, they pursue no smugglers, but they fix up to 800 metres, observation stands and snipers of the Soviet zonal border troops. The Stacheldrahtverhaue on the banks of the Trave-Mündung ending in Northern Germany. Here begins the blue border, to their control, the small, unarmed German Zollkreuzer with eight crew on the road are day and night. Customs and water protection police of the Federal Republic are confronted with the incomparably stronger mine raeumbooten of the Soviet zonal forces. Here is a Soviet zonal Octopus. 100 man aboard and militarily equipped with ships of this type check the entire Baltic Sea traffic. Fall into the area of responsibility of the West German customs boats... "securing the customs border and monitoring the movement of goods on the Customs road. Tasks are us has been transferred, border police tasks. Our task is to prevent injecting propaganda material from the East zone in the Federal Republic." Colored plastic balls and plastic covers with communist propaganda material to reach West German banks in cheaper Trift. They include cover letter, promising a reward for a distribution of the Scriptures. "In addition we are active, in distress cases. Since we had spotted a small inflatable boat some time ago on the Strip drive, it sat a young married couple, which had come from the eastern zone; were already 7 to 8 hours on the road, was the two in the month of November, they were plenty cold. They sat up to the chest in the water in the boat." "9 hours we had paddled, we saw then in the morning mist a boat appear. We could not determine, at the moment, what was that for a boat. Our binoculars had fallen out by the water. We were afraid of the flag with the emblem of the East zone. "It was fast approaching, turned in, we were asked whether we were refugees, and, and then had to, and found to our delight that we were in good hands."

Flash: The Flash of the week falls on the primary means of combat in the jungle war against the Communist Vietcong insurgents. The helicopter is the only vehicle with the unprotected villages evacuated and overcome rough routes here. The overthrow of the diem regime has hardly changed the fronts of the war. The Communists have since stepped up their attacks. Repeatedly, American helicopters have been shot down by them; in this case, engine failure forced to make the emergency landing in the guerrilla-infested area. He is rescued by another helicopter. Flash light on the modern and extensive port facilities of Montreal, where a billion business taking place these days. Canadian wheat to the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries, is using automatic loaders verfracht carefully cleaned and checked, the capitalist grain to tide ü Socialist crop failure. The Soviet Ambassador to Canada the business that is satisfactory to both parties followed with visible satisfaction. Hole Khrushchev has already announced a gigantic chemical fertilizer industry to surpass the wheat harvest in the capitalist countries. To finance this 20 - billion ruble-project he however expecting a capital assistance from the West. Flash finally on the pre-Christmas protest marches to Bonn. The members of the Association of returnees arrived to thousands in the capital city. By the Bonn population barely noticed with ambivalent feelings however recorded by political observers, the returnees marched to enforce their demands. In the first series that is preserving more than just memories from their captivity. In a rally on the market square of Bonn, they demanded a rest remuneration of 1.8 billion. The stability of the currency but demanded by Erhard can be appear problematic as the demands of the associations. A few days later 550 buses of associations of war victims were at the gates of the capital. 35,000 members of the Union were the largest March on Bonn. Federal Chancellor Erhard had refused to negotiate under the pressure of this demonstration. The gap between the legitimate claims and the opportunity to meet him, will be sure not to bridge overnight. Time stage: In these pre-Christmas days each of us squeezing through crowded streets, passing on overloaded shop Windows. After the gifts, hunting is one of the dubious Vorfreuden on the Festival. There is no desire that remains unspoken, and there is no article, which is not offered for sale. The star of the light signs announce that business to celebrate already has started its Festival. The time stage hides back to December 1945 refugees and returnees from war captivity arrive with their few belongings in Germany. This transport comes from Czechoslovakia, in the ruins of Berlin, the reconstruction begins tentatively. A factory in Lübeck, which previously delivered aircraft parts for the Focke-Wulf 190, produced the first new kitchen appliances. With spreads and hot beverages, the German help Hamburg tries to satisfy the largest hunger. For many there is the only warm meal a day. In this mosaic of emergency and support adds the will to the redesign of public life. Yet the war damage be repaired in the Funkhaus Munich, as the first shipments leave the building. A theme is that outgoing, discussed in this December 1945 from Germany in all over the world. The Nuremberg process begins. 22 political Führungsgroßen of the Nazi dictatorship are indicted as a major war criminals before the international military tribunal. Among them Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel. "Rudolf Hess makes a statement already after the first days of the trial: I stress that I carry full responsibility for everything I've done, signed, or signed with!" Another military court renders the judgement of those responsible for the Dachau concentration camp. And at the same time, because here 36 death sentences are imposed, the symbols under which the crimes were committed in London under the hammer come. Here the four flags, which should be raised after the victorious entry into London. While hiding the banners and pictures of past rule in the private sphere, the Memorial to the Red Army is inaugurated in West Berlin in the presence of Marshal Zhukov. In Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany, to start with the production of toys for the first Christmas after the war. The children, which at that time stood in front of the expenses meager, already grown up.

Date of Release:

10.12.1964

Year of Production:

1964

Camera Work:

Grund; Jürgens; Luppa; Vlasdeck, Willy; Zimpel, Werner

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Metro

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German