Deutschlandspiegel 8/1955 03.06.1955

01. double wedding mountain peasant wedding in the Alps. Bride is the bridegroom of Myrtle on the lapel. Wedding party on the way to the mountain church. Pioneer swings whip. Masked fools clean tree trunks out of the way. Schützengilde marches on. Two couples leave the Church. Salute. Marching band at the top of the statue.
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02. 1 Mai Schöneberg Berlin. May rally prior to the Schöneberg Town Hall. Dr. Otto Suhr speaks before a large crowd. Flags of Germany and Berlin. Transparent: "employee participation guaranteed better life". Liberty Bell Rings.
(14 m, 10:02:55 10:03:25) 03. eastern sector of Berlin. Sector boundary, Brandenburg Gate. Giant Billboard with three ideal figures of the socialist realism, caption: "Ready to work and to the defense of the homeland." State and party leadership is smack on a grandstand. Uniformed parades. Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck. Billboard: "may 8, 1945. Day of liberation." Ulbricht and Georg Shukov remove took of the masses.
(28 m, 10:03:20 10:04:30) 04 visit pinay and Germany Treaty village sign: "Bonn, town district of Bonn, r. ref. Cologne" the Rhine. France Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay reverses in the car, is welcomed by Secretary of State Hallstein. Konrad Adenauer and pinay To give press release. Pinay interview (in French). Adenauer and pinay shake hands. Deposit of the instruments of ratification to the Germany Treaty and the troop agreement. Sir Frederic Hoyer Miller, Andre Francois Pincet and Konrad Adenauer at the signing. Press release. Adenauer actuality: "It will be the first task of the Federal Republic, within this community best efforts to contribute to the maintenance of peace and for the building of a new Europe." Festive reception at German President Theodor Heuss. Pincet, Adenauer, and Hoyer Miller. Heuss and the American Ambassador Cormit.
(03 m, 10:04:25 10:08:05) 05. Princess Margret of Wuppertal. The 1st Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment by Princess Margret Gets a new flag. Clergy in the stands. Regiment marched past.
(28 m, 10:08:00 10:09:00) 06 Adenauer in Paris Paris. Lufthansa - aircraft landing at Paris Airport. Photographer. Meeting of the Atlantic Council of Ministers in the Palais Chaillot. Among others: Harold Mac Millan, John F. Dulles, Christian Pinneau, Paul Henri Spaak, Adenauer. Reporter running up stairs. Dulles, Pineau, Adenauer and Mac Millan To give up the hand.
(27 m, 10:08:55 10:09:55) 07 flag Richard Handley in the presence of General Speidel is hoisted the German flag before the NATO Headquarters.
(7 m, 10:09:50 10:10:10) 08 Hannover Messe Hannover: stands and pavilions at the industrial fair. Mobile excavators, tipping for railway wagon. As a visitor to Hinrich Kopf including heavy-duty crane. Porcelain ware: Vases and dishes. Aggregates, rolling machine, generator, cement mill. Aircraft, motor boat. (97 m, 10:10:05 10:13:35) 09 kayak in Monschau in Eifel: Canoe regatta on the Ruhr. Canoeists down small waterfall.
(35 m, 10:13:30 10:14:40) 10 flower in the ancient land of old country. Cars and cyclists. Walkers between blooming cherry trees. Grazing lambs. Old Frisian farmhouses. Archway with the inscription: 'Without of God's favor, is alln's umsunst' storks. Local pipe smoker, big. Cherry trees on the banks of the Elbe, ocean-going vessels.
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The 8th edition of the "mirror of Germany" begins with images of a mountain peasant wedding in the Alps. The wedding procession of the Church moving against the background of an enchanting landscape. Fools - accompany an ancient folk tradition in this area - the two couples on the way. After the wedding ceremony wedding banquet and wedding dance fill the rest of the day - far away from current affairs and politics.
The next pictures lead to West Berlin, where the may rally before the Schöneberg Town Hall before one hundred thousand Berliners reacts Dr. Suhr, the new Governing Mayor of Berlin, and the eighteen million Germans in the Soviet zone of occupation is cordial greetings. The celebrations are accompanied by the ringing of the Liberty Bell on the Tower of the Berlin Town Hall. You ringing far across the iron curtain over - about Berlin's "cordon sanitaire", in which the Brandenburg Gate is located in the Soviet sector into, where also may celebrations are held. The slogan is there: "Increasing production".
The federal capital is major political events at this time. France Foreign Minister Pinay visited Federal Chancellor Dr. Adenauer. The two statesmen lead meetings about the world political situation, the continuation of European unification and the Franco German relations. "The Entente Germany France is the key to the Western peace" said at the conclusion of this visit Antoine Pinay.
A few days later, the deposit of the instruments of ratification to the Germany Treaty and the troop Treaty by the English and the French High Commissioner finds Instead of in the home of the Chancellor. The United States had earlier deposited the documents. From that moment on, the German Federal Republic is a sovereign State. "It will be the first task of the Federal Republic, within this community best efforts to contribute to the maintenance of peace and for the building of a new Europe" – with these words, the German Chancellor marked the big day in German history.
After entry into force of the troop deployment contract, there is no more occupation, but troops stationed in Germany only ally States in the Federal Republic. Princess Margret passes a new flag in Wuppertal, the 1st Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment.
In a four-engine machine of reconstituted Lufthansa, German Chancellor Adenauer going to Paris to participate in the formation of the Western European Union as representative of the sovereign Federal Republic.
The political development of post-war gave the opportunity to free development of the German economy. Four thousand companies - including many foreign exhibitors - industrial fair in Hanover To give an image by their performance.
Shots of an international canoe slalom race on the RUR in Monschau in Eifel and the cherry blossom in the marsh area on the Elbe estuary decide this issue of the "mirror of Germany".

Date of Release:

03.06.1955

Year of Production:

1955

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Reportagefilm GmbH

Commissioned by:

Bundespresseamt

Film Format:

16 mm

Duration:

00:19:00

Film length (in m):

195

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

Afrikaans; Arabisch; English; French; German; Greek; Portuguese; Spanish; Turkish