Gliders in flight at a contest at the Wasserkuppe hill in Germany. Several men carry a monoplane. Men enter the cockpit of the monoplane. A large number of spectators in the background. A monoplane crashes while attempting to take off. A Fokker sailplane being transported atop an early model car. Another car tows another Fokker sailplane. Fokker sailplane being unloaded from the early model car and being held aloft by men. The Fokker sailplane in flight. A pilot in the cockpit of the plane.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A statue of Alfred Krupp. Men at typewriters. Coal being mined under Allied control. Soldiers load coal onto a truck. Soldiers look at a map. German men and women cut trees to burn wood in place of coal. Soldiers and officials at a meeting. A freight train and a convoy of trucks on the move.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A German man reads a newspaper and looks at advertisements. Narrator indicates many advertisements are seeking missing persons after the war. Women workers at the Central Postal Inquiry Bureau in Hamburg reviewing written requests that have been received as people look for relatives. People seek permission to travel by trains. German people on foot and with bicycles wait in groups to cross pontoon bridges built by British engineers. Military government trucks and traffic cross a bridge with city buildings visible behind. Elevated view over tracks of locomotive train pulling slowly into train station with many passenger rail cars. Large group of German people on the train platform as the railroad train pulls up. People struggle to get onto the train. British guards pull a man away from a train at a station as he is trying to ride on the side bumper. Bicyclists and pedestrians moving forward on town streets after clearance. More views of fully loaded passenger train pulling out from German train station with many passengers visible in open top cars. A British flag at a military government court room. A hearing being conducted. An officer presides as judge over the hearing. Several man stand in front of the judge in a largely empty court room, including the accused, an interpreter, German defense counsel, and British prosecutor. A German police band plays. Narrator describes the remaking of the German police force. Two uniformed German police officers talking on a street as traffic goes by. A Red Cross team with nurses and technicians checks the blood pressure, height, weight and performs laboratory tests like blood content, measuring the health of German civilians, who the narrator says are receiving about 1000-1200 calories per day, or half the British military allotment. German children idle, at work, and at play: Two young boys playing in rubble of destroyed buildings; A German teenage boy walks behind a horse plowing a field; boys and girls playing amid rubble of buildings; German boys playing on moving turnstile equipment or a moving partial antiaircraft gun platform in a bombed railroad yard. Wide view of German children playing on top of a giant mound of dirt and rubble from bombing. Older German man delivers a speech and people listen in a hall. A German school teacher in a classroom (possibly a church, with crucifix on wall behind him), and crowd of children in the classroom. Chalk board at front of room. German boys seated at desks with pencils and paper doing school work.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A British soldier guards the area as German civilians move about on a bridge in the background. Women move down a staircase. An air raid siren sounds. People sleep on benches. Shadow of girls as they move round in a circle. A damaged building. Judges being administered an oath of office by a British officer. Girls hold hands as they move round in a circle.
Reconstruction underway in Germany after the end of World War II. Cathedral of Cologne with a river in the foreground. Men clear rubble and damaged buildings in the city. Buildings under construction. Street cars and rubble strewn streets. A street photographer takes a picture of three women with a Cathedral in the background. Damaged buildings in the city. Munich: busy streets with construction work underway at many places. A painter paints a window trim. Stuttgart: people walk along the streets of the city. Many new buildings under construction.
The Frankfurt Zoo in Germany (Zoo Frankfurt Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 1 60316 Frankfurt). The Gorilla twins wear clothes. Two twin women feed milk to gorilla twins in bottles. The twins are named Alice and Ellen. People at the ceremony wear face marks to protect them from human germs.
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