01 refugee child Weinendes German aid for Kurdish refugees "Kurdish help". Refugees. Baby is fed artificially. Child with frostbitten feet.
Start a Transall, the Luftwaffe and landing on the Turkish military airport in Batman. Red Cross trucks. Helicopter. Commando. Commander actuality: "... because this border was divided: this western part of the Americans, in the Middle the Germans, from here to the East, United Kingdom and France."
Overflying of Turkish Iraqi Grenzgebirges helicopter. Fly over the tents of the refugee camps. Helicopter lands. Goods will be discharged and passed in a human chain.
Refugees talk interview (translation): "we know that much of the aid from America, Britain, Germany and France. We are very grateful for that."
"Thank you very for your people and your Government for this human gesture."
Women wash clothes in the river. Tent city is rebuilt. Helper interview: "We are of Maltese assistance, have the task to provide this camp with good drinking water with a 10,000 liter of beverage processing plant here."
"We have the task here to secure the helicopter landing zones, to keep the people and to build the tent city with."
Health care is the biggest problem. Babies with severe burns. Long queue of waiting.
Elisabeth Jahndel of the Red Cross interview: "the first impression in camp 1 and two days later in a side Valley, that was totally not: many seriously ill children, adults, poor hygienic conditions, many surgical injuries, severe burns, and the people there were very poorly supplied." We have been working there three days, and that was probably the worst impression. Now after 14 days, a hospital is built here, the camp here is now better, there's a water supply, medical care works. I think the whole thing is now on the road of to recovery."
(116 m) 02 case towers Bremen steeples. The high drop tower with tip for experiments in zero gravity. Test rooms. Candle flame is around. Drops of orange juice deforms. Tests are carried out in capsule. Capsule is pulled into the top of the Tower, the Tower creates a vacuum, capsule crashes into brake chamber. Video records of the case.
(70 m) 03 Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in Thuringia, Erfurt's cityscape. Marketplace with timber-frame houses. Tram runs. Von Weizsäcker at the tour through Erfurt, shakes the hands of citizens. Scrum. People on Windows. Von Weizsäcker visited precious altars and crucifixes from the 14th century. Von Weizsäcker in conversation with German entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur interview: "that here in Thuringia something moves, but that there are very serious problems, that here investment of enormous magnitude are required - in the industry as well as in trade, and that it applies primarily to make the local products again marketable."
Chimneys, industrial buildings.
Richard von Weizsäcker actuality: "It's like, that we have to cope with a mountain of difficulties at the time, that we are really positive, long-term prospects in the clear, and we must move forward from this mountain of difficulties to these prospects now, and can move forward."
Market day in Erfurt. People interview: "at the beginning, we have had a little problems, but now we have now is working, etc."
"I hope that sometime better times are coming, that people can have more money and also give out. At the moment it looks a bit cloudy."
"I was always an optimist, and I'm staying. It continues - I let there actually get me."
Cityscape Erfurt Cathedral.
(78 m) 04 Babelsberg: prop fundus DEFA heads in plaster and others of Stalin, Marx and Engels. Requisitenkammer with tableware, pewter spoons, stamping, Marlene Dietrich as Blue Angel. Scene from the movie 'The break', one of the last large facilities films of DEFA post-war with Götz George and Ulrike Krumbiegel, directed by Frank Beyer. Costumes, fitting and tailoring.
Head o-ton: "With our large collection of film equipment equipment and props from over four decades of production of the DEFA - Studios we have material that is a desirable article for all film designers, producers in Germany and beyond — so Europe -."
(64 m) 05 Hannover: table tennis European League match Jörg Rosskopf and Steffen Fetzner in ZL. Large audiences. Final of the Europa League Jörg Rosskopf plays against Mikael Appelgreen, Sweden, partly ZL. Audience clapping. Jörg Rosskopf WINS. Double Jörg Rosskopf / Steffen Fetzner, partly ZL, win. Rosskopf trophy. Advertisement: Guild light - Zeyko - Holtzmann.
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01 German aid for Kurdish refugees 0'34 In the wines of the children of an entire people's desperate cry for help is to listen. The fate of the Kurds shocked the world. Fleeing Saddam Hussein's troops, they had only that which they wore on the body.
0'53 start a German air force Transall towards Turkey. In the hold: aid for Kurdish refugees. -After achtstündigem flight of the Turkish airbase Batman shows up; 130 kilometers away from the border to the Iraq. Several times a day, transport machines end up in Batman from the Federal Republic with food, clothes, medicines and other goods against hunger and disease. The German "Kurdish relief operation" is part of an international humanitarian relief operation. After some initial difficulties the collaboration of volunteers from around the world has played up each other.
"... "this border was divided: this Western participants the Americans, in the middle pane of the Germans, and from here to the East, United Kingdom and France."
1 ' 41 of the final destination is an hour's flight from Batman away and reachable only by helicopter: the refugee camp on the Turkish Iraqi border.
1 ' 53 us interested, as it stands now in the camps, several weeks after the start of the international airlift. -We fly over the rugged, barren mountains of Eastern Anatolia. How can people live here, we ask ourselves.
2'10 but then dip them on: the tents stand out from the rugged landscape as small pebbles in the desert sand, only hundreds, then thousands - so far the eye can see. Almost half a million people fled into this region. The naked fear of persecution drove them.
2'30 as a first baby food, distributed. The initial chaos has given way to a tight coordination between aid agencies and representatives of the Kurdish refugees. Whether the current aid also reached those affected?
2'48 "we know that much of the aid from America, Britain, Germany and France. We are very grateful for that."
2'59 "thank you very for your people and your Government for this human gesture."
3'06 as well as food and clothing is necessary the immediate involvement of the helper on the spot.
3'12 "we are help by the Maltese, have the task with a 10,000 liter drink water treatment plant here to provide this camp with good drinking water." "We have the task here to secure the helicopter landing zones, to keep the people and to build the tent city with."
3'30 medical care is the biggest problem. Elisabeth Jahndel of the Red Cross was there from the first day. 3'38 "the first impression in camp 1 and two days later in a side Valley, that was totally not: many seriously ill children, adults, poor hygienic conditions, many surgical injuries, gunshot wounds, severe burns, and the people there were very poorly supplied." We worked there three days, and that was probably the worst Eindrnck. Now after 14 days is here built a hospital, wind better supplied the camp here, there's a water supply, medical care works. I think the whole thing is now on the road of to recovery."
4'15 the Federal Government has provided extensive funding for the "Kurdish relief operation" available. Addition, there are private donations. Relief supplies are important - a political solution more importantly in the long term. The Kurds want a secured right to a homeland.
02. Falturm in Bremen 4'38 for centuries certain bell towers the silhouette of Bremen. The Hanseatic City owes a new attraction this high-tech age: a drop Tower in which carry out experiments under momentary weightlessness. With a height of 146 meters this is their kind in the world's second largest.
5'01 stand scientists from home and abroad in Bremen in line; the study of weightlessness is still in its infancy. Their benefits are - by the space apart - hard to estimate.
5'17 weightlessness changes our picture of the world: a candle's flame takes the ball form. - And hard to see at first glance: a drop of orange juice. The phenomenon can weightlessness, here only playfully demonstrated with scientific precision explore themselves in Bremen.
5'35 each experiment is mounted in a pressurized capsule. Weightlessness is created during the fall into the deep inside the capsule. A few seconds are enough to carry out experiments that would be possible only in the space at far greater cost.
6'00 at the end of the preparations is pulled the capsule to its starting position in the top of the case tray. During the test, the air resistance acting on the capsule must be reduced. Therefore, a vacuum is created in the drop shaft. Then, a single employee can control the plant. - And 4.7 seconds, everything is over. With 167 kilometres per hour, the capsule in a brake chamber filled with styrofoam crashes. What happens during the fall with a liquid that shows the video recording.
6'43 the unique recordings documenting how eradicator creeps liquid in a State of weightlessness on the walls of a container. This trial aims to the optimal design of a fuel tank for satellites.
03. Federal President von Weizsäcker in Thuringia 7'05 Erfurt - one of the most important trade centers of in Germany in the middle ages, here once Goethe and Napoleon met, Luther studied at the University of Erfurt. In recent weeks, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker attended the citizens of the new federal State of Thuringia.
7'25 the enthusiasm is great; the people trust that their new head of State is involved: for the maximum preservation of jobs and a careful policy of privatisation of the East German economy.
7'40 Thuringia can build on its wealth of cultural treasures: how von Weizsäcker tourists will discover the historical sites and museums, for example the precious altars and crucifixes from the 14th century.
7'57 President advocates for the establishment of a European University in Erfurt, for the unification of the two parts of Germany is part of the growing together of Europe. 8'12 elsewhere met von Weizsäcker economic experts. As an East German entrepreneur assesses the current situation? "That here in Thuringia is quite moving, but that there are very serious problems, that here investment of enormous magnitude are required - in the industry as well as in trade, and that it applies primarily to make the local products again marketable."
8'37 the vast damage that has caused the planned economy of the German Democratic Republic on man and nature in 40 years, suffering also Thuringia, the smallest of the five new federal States. Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker: "it is that we are really positive, long-term prospects in the clear, and we must move forward from this mountain of difficulties to these prospects now, and can move forward so that we have to cope with a mountain of difficulties at the time."
9'19 votes on a market day, one and a half years after the peaceful revolution in the GDR: 9'25 "at the beginning, we have had a little problems, but now we have working, etc., now we actually."
9'30 "I hope that sometime better times are coming, that people can have more money and also give out. At the moment it looks a bit cloudy." 9'38 "I was always an optimist and I keep it continue - I let that really get me."
9'43 despite of all problems: muted optimism.
04. prop fundus DEFA 9'49 relics of past times - outstanding heads in plaster, but also everyday. In the 40 years of the GDR were purchased and customized for the facilities of films. The largest Reauisiten collection in the world is located in Babelsberg near Potsdam, on the outskirts of Berlin. Here Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, began even before the second world war the careers of famous directors and actors, by Fritz Lang as "Blue Angels".
10'18 one of the last large facilities films of East Germany, which was filmed in Babelsberg, Germany: "The break".
10'29 of the beer glass to tie - the props for the film from the Berlin post-war environment are all from the DEFA collection.
10'44 Götz George, German TV personality - and Ulrike Krumbiegel, directed by Frank Beyer.
10'58 production "The break" is now registered in the costume store of DEFA. -170,000 items of clothing from all eras here waiting for actors and extras. What does not exist, is made in the tailoring. At the time produced mainly for the Femsehen; the future of the DEFA Studios is still uncertain - after the perspectives for the traditional fundus we asked its Director: "With our large collection of props from four decades of production of the DEFA studios and film equipment means we have material that is a desirable article for all film designers, producers in Germany and beyond — so Europe -."
11'52 East Germany no longer there - much in the fundus of the legendary production site is waiting to be used in the future for big movies.
05. 12 table tennis Europe League ' 06 of the surcharge until match ball: Jörg Roßkopf does it all with links. Together with his friend and doubles partner Steffen Fetzner, the 21-year-old is the flagship of the German table tennis.
We watched them at the final of the Europa League in Hanover. Opponent is Sweden, Europe's table tennis nation number one. Not only with his parade of stroke, the backhand, Roßkopf was the 4,800 spectators. Also the forehand hit and repeatedly brought the Swedish top player Mikael Appelgren in embarrassment. Nevertheless, the German fans were skeptical, because for four years, Roßkopf could no longer defeat his Swedish opponent of fear Appelgren.
13'11 in Hanover ended the black series: sovereign Roßkopf won the first point for Germany.
13'22 in the double Roßkopf/Fetzner are a class of its own. The ' 89 world champion live solely by the and for table tennis. Especially "speedy", as called Fetzner, fights often still under the table to the round celluloid.
13'40 perfect each other played, they demonstrate the athleticism of a sport, the many always still disparaging ' ping pong' call. "
13'54 eight hours a day must the professionals train hard, to play the ball with such precision over the network.
14'08 at the end could cheer the two friends once again. For the first time, the German team took the victory in the Europa League. A success but not continued at the subsequent World Championships.
