01 of the Rhine (also D 219/3) runs on the Rhine excursion steamer. People on board. Panoramic view to the shore. Rhine town. Railway runs on the Bank. Castles of the Rhine between Bingen and Koblenz. Passing vineyards. Farmers at harvest. Grapes are cut from the vine. Trek passes through narrow village road with trailer. Vinification the grapes and wine cellar. Castle Johannesberg. Cellar Master opens door to cellar. Bottles stored on shelves. Butler pulls out bottles. The Loreley rock. Travelers aboard the excursion steamer.
(49 m) 02. The defensive strategy of the Federal Government peace demonstration in Bonn. Meeting on giant space. At the lectern, Eppler talks o-ton: "... the advantages and retrofits to break out, the all of us in the direction of..." Chatting in the maneuver. NATO engagement meeting. Tanks in the area. Still image capture of the Eastern bloc maneuver off the coast of Poland. NATO exercise in the snow. Foreign observers for manoeuvres. NATO flags. NATO Conference with Schmidt and Genscher. Aircraft.
(66 m) 03 Frankfurt: reconstruction of the citizens Opera Opera House after its reconstruction in traditional construction. The bombed-out Opera House after an air strike 1944 day of reopening. Guests in the foyer. Post racks. Modern decorations. Interior Design. The Opera Café. Halls. Choir and Orchestra on stage. Clapping.
(60 m) 04 a quiet stay in the town car transport on modern roads. New town architecture creates quiet streets. Pedestrian street with children playing. The slow driving force Holperschwellen and tight-run roads of parks over.
(59 m) 05 25 years Americas - aviation jet aircraft. LH aircraft in air turbulence. Passengers on the airfield.
Review of 1956 S / W: reconstruction images. Housing construction, ship launch, VW-anniversary. Economics Minister Erhard at Hannover Fair. Lufthansa propeller plane. Start. Passengers in aircraft during recording of air traffic with South America. Approach to Rio de Janeiro. The Sugar Loaf from the airplane window. Aeroporto do Galeäo. Seebohm has been greeted on arrival.
Col: Nocturnal loading a jumbo transport aircraft with goods for South America. Closing the bow loading door. Large aircraft rolls from loading Hall. (some archive material)
(59 m) 06. An Alpine village: Schönberg Schönberg in meadows. Transformer. Boy moves on tractors through meadow. Woman driving logs on cart. Paintings on the houses. Farmer pours flowers in flower boxes. Bauer at the crap. Rooster Pecks in the garden. Young people with motorcycles in the conversation. Cattle are driven by the pasture. Cows in the village street go in their stable. Milk jugs are driven on carts. Farmers go to worship in church. God service. Old woman at grave on cemetery. Men in Guest House at cards. Cows in the pasture.
(55 m) 07. Berlin: Marathon fun run meeting in front of the Reichstag building. Athletes in exercises before the start. Mass start of the runners (12-80 years) full-screen. Endurance and runners on the track. Refreshments too. Roller cross-country skiers in the field and disabled persons on wheelchairs. Older man wearing a flag. Spectators on the side of the road. Runners drink from cups and freshen up at the destination.
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01 Germany in the autumn. Perhaps the most beautiful season for a Rhine journey, passing on small timber towns, mountains and castles. The 60 km between Bingen and Koblenz are still the epitome of the romantic Germany for foreign tourists.
Now is the time of the grape harvest. The vineyard slopes facing the Sun have established the international reputation of the Rhine wine. Some "wine of the century" was here when the Sun was shining long enough. She does not irroner. Then the tart, lovers of the so-called "dry" wine at their own expense.
The ' 81 vintage promises to be, because the Sun helped the Vintners good to Very good. The amount meets the expectations: 8 to 8 1/2 million hectolitres. The Germans drink of about 7 million. The wine matures in the historical vaulted cellars. Here, ancient, precious vintages for wine connoisseurs, who can afford the special store.
02. more than 200,000 demonstrators in Bonn, capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. Their motto is to preserve peace. This largest ever rally in Germany gather people, followers of all party styles and denominations, out of concern for peace and out of fear that is driving the world on a nuclear precipice. You are in their concerns and fears not alone; also in London, Brussels, Rome and Paris March people for peace.
Don't forget in all the seriousness of these movements but the overwhelming majority of the population in these countries that owe it the Western Verteidigungsqemeinschaft, NATO, is that for more than 30 years of peace in Europe is backed up. The need for collective defense is not called into question, as long as there is no Abrlistung. 90 percent of West Germans are committed to the Western defense Alliance.
The Federal Republic at the same time together with its NATO partners seeking ways of relaxation with the East. Relaxation there is no alternative, even though the fronts between East and West have hardened.
The Soviet Union - here recordings of their recent maneuvers off the coast of Poland, has further upgraded in recent years All the time and reinforced especially their nuclear weapons in Europe. The military balance, the basis for peace and relaxation, is thus sensitive disturbed. Therefore, NATO, whose defense limit ranging from Norway to Turkey must retrofit in Europe when it comes to a balanced una controllable agreement on mutual disarmament.
Disarmament is not reached, NATO must not wane in their defence effort. This particularly applies to the Federal Republic of Germany, which borders on the Warsaw Pact countries and is the most threatened by the Soviet nuclear weapons.
03. Frankfurt's new Alte Oper. Hardly a municipal issue has been so strongly the Frankfurt as the long controversial plan faithfully rebuild the Opera House destroyed in the war. The Classicist Prunkbau with Frankfurt's wholesale citizens put a monument 100 years ago, seemed No more to fit many in our time.
During an air raid, the Opera House went down in 1944 in a firestorm. Only the facade remained standing.
On the day of the reopening of all dispute was forgotten. For 30 years civil initiatives had collected millions of marks for the reconstruction.
The result behind historic Beveling Sage: a centre that will serve future alien arts. Balls and banquets, congresses, Ballet, folklore, operas and concerts - the ancient walls to be the today's Kulturzene. Opposites: the route in a Mozart opera passes to Roy Lichtenstein.
The decorative interior of the old opera was reconstructed only in a few places, for example in the Opera Café. Modern functionality otherwise dominate the rooms and halls. The largest room has 2,500 seats, more than ever the whole Opera. Contrasting sounds will satisfy him: today's pop and morning classical music.
04. for decades, the car had priority in the German cities. Road building proposed corridors through developed residential areas, more and more people fleeing noise and pollution in the urban suburbs.
A new traffic sign indicates the rethinking urban planners and politicians. "Traffic calming streets" is now called the formula. Their unjnittelbares living environment is returned to city residents. Pedestrians and cyclists, children and elderly Versal lihr residential streets can use again safely.
The car driver has only the same rights as any other road users. A variety of structural measures forcing him to slow driving. Straight, wide streets are narrowed and fed artificial obstacles urn. In other streets, Hoiperschwellen are embedded in the road surface. Newly planted green islands of shrubs and trees to bring back the nature in the city.
Still, the city planner experiment. But above all a large scale test in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state is optimistic the attempts in many cities in the Federal Republic. The traffic accidents here urn 20 percent declined, accidents with personal injury urn even 40 percent. The city is not just homely, but also safer, especially for children. Nine out of ten residents in the areas of the test therefore demand that the limited attempts are the permanent institution.
05. fly: this is today taken for granted, despite high fuel costs. Because the plane is the only global transport system. The Federal Republic returned rst 25 years ago in the international aviation industry.
1956. Eleven years after the world war, the people of the Federal Republic of Germany have eliminated the worst consequences of war. The reconstruction of their destroyed country, the upswing in their economy surprised the world. She speaks of the German "economic miracle". Its symbol is the Volkswagen. International calls the first West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard "Minister economic miracle".
At that time it gait to win access to foreign markets.
The Lufthansa abroad started shortly after the start of domestic air traffic. The scheduled flights was recorded in August 1956 with Latainamerika. Rio de Janeiro was the target. The flight lasted 26 hours. Brazil was situated A lot because, to resume the contacts interrupted by the war with Germany.
Today, 25 years later: nightly cargo handling at Frankfurt airport. A jumbo freighter loaded with products of the German export economy for Latin America. Much has changed since the maiden flight of the propeller-driven Super Constellation to Rio de Janeiro. The exchange of people and goods is multiplied. New transport systems were in demand.
Since November, two large freighter take over the express delivery of goods. These cargo Jumbo needs not more 26 but only have 13 hours to ship cargo to Rio almost 100 tons. This new rapid transit had become necessary because the economic relations between Germany and Latin America are growing All the time.
06. Schönberg: a mountain village in the Alps. They still exist, the German province, here in Bavaria and elsewhere. Landscape dormant in, a more well kind of person who feels safe in the tradition, without compromising on the progress.
The old farming village has only been in the last few decades to modest prosperity. Dry fields and meadows were cultivated, merged to small farms, stables and houses modernised. Young people earn their money in the nearest commercial and industrial companies in the region, if they accept not the parent's farm.
In addition to farming and cattle breeding, it is the timber industry, living of the Sadler. From the Yerkaufserlös of a community forest, they have built also their small church 100 years ago, where the population almost complete is up every Sunday morning to worship.
The Sadler in the little church cemetery bury their dead.
And also this is part of the Sunday ritual: the glass of beer, the card game in the guest house right after the Church. Here are the men, the women do the Sunday roast at home according to an old custom.
Schönberg: a piece of intact, old world, a counterpoint to the frantic Großstadc and industrial regions of the Federal Republic.
07. before the old Reichstag, they softened their muscles: marathon runners, participants in the first City Marathon through West Berlin. From all over the world they came in the divided city, nearly 3,500 Freizeitlaufer and long seasoned veterans.
The oldest participant was 80 years old, the youngest 12. The arrival was paid only a few top athletes. The large amount of trotting at his own expense with. All 5 km refreshment and catering stalls were built: a race of 42 km asphalt costs sweat and calories.
Marathon roller skiing: also a method to facilitate walking.
But the large crowd showed sporting ambitions, like everywhere else, where a big City Marathon is run. Whether in Stockholm, London and New York: the Marathon has become a worldwide movement as the culmination of a Jogger life.
Of course, they also drove outside the competition. But disabled people to join and are encouraged to do so also shows the direction of the City Marathon: the general public - in Berlin were 250,000 people on the streets - should be motivated to run. The Berlin organizers expressed it so: "the viewers to say: If the old man runs Marathon, then I make probably still regularly a few kilometers!"
