German film entitled Yesterday and today. The "yesterday" portion Opens showing miserable situation of post-World War I economic depression in Germany. The interior of an idle abandoned factory. River barges sitting covered and unused. The closed entrance to an idle factory. In a brighter "today" part of the film, machinery is seen moving. People on bicycles and walking, fill sidewalks and streets going to work. More machinery seen operating.Smoke billows from industrial smoke stacks. More views of manufacturing machinery in operation. Adolf Hitler in civilian clothes is seen addressing a gathering of workers in a factory. He extols the German workers. Views of heavy construction machinery at work and arches being built for a long high bridge across a river. More views of bridges and highways under construction.
On German Field Marshal, Paul Von Hindenburg in Germany. Paul Von Hindenburg as a captain examines maps during World War I. An official stands near him. He reviews First World War German troops and decorates soldiers during a ceremony. Soldiers salute him. Scene shifts and show Hindenburg greeting citizens as he walks through the streets and they throw flowers. He speaks to elderly German military veterans who are part of an honor guard. He confers with officers. Civilians on either side of the streets. Flags in the background.
Soviet and British officials hold discussions at the border between Russian and British zones of occupation in Germany, following World War II. Prisoners to be repatriated to the Soviet zone aboard several police vans. A prisoner displays a sandwich from the barred windows of a van. A guard raises the barricades on the British side and the vans proceed across a bridge into the Soviet zone.
Refugees being housed, trained and taught in a factory in Europe, likely Germany. Aerial view of the factory and nearby apartment buildings. Clothes drying on line outside apartment building. A boy stands near tilted gas lamp post and a woman enters the building. Inside, the apartments are divided into tiny cubicles separated by hanging blankets. A woman holding a baby tends to a small stove with pot on top. A man and his wife, holding a baby in a small cubicle. The woman smiles and closes their blanket curtain. Refugee trainees work on machinery and equipment. A machinist working on a lathe, with sign on wall behind him that says something in German about language lessons. Children in an English class. The teacher writes in English on blackboard.
German forces evacuating German civilians from the Eastern Front during World War 2. Baltic Sea convoy officers assist in the evacuation of German civilians from the eastern front, where they are threatened by advancing Soviet forces. German civilian refugees, mostly women, board a ship. Girls talk aboard and a mother feeds her child on the ship. Convoy of warships escorting transports back to Germany.
Lucky Hofmaier walks on his hands in Germany as people look on. He is on his way from Rosenberg to Rome and aims to reach Rome in 38 days.
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