Industrial, agricultural and civil rebuilding of Germany after World War II. State Department building in Washington DC. Secretory of States, James F. Byrnes dictates to secretary. General Luicius D Clay speaks to the members of British Occupational government. Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov and James F. Byrnes pose for a group photograph. German farmers in an agricultural field. Men and woman plow farm by horse cart. Worker watches a factory kiln with molten metal. Cavaliers of American Military Police on horse back patrol on the streets in Germany with a destroyed cathedral in the background. They cross a bridge with sign Herkules Bridge. German workers make farm equipment and a German family with young children eats a meal.
Cartoon representation of German rail yards and war factories, opens the film. Cities of : Anklam; Bremen; and Frankfurt are highlighted as critical factory and railroad junctions. Animated map shows Allied air strikes against French marshaling yards in Spring of 1944 in preparation for the invasion at Normandy. In February, 1945 Allied officers use large wall map to discuss and plan the destruction of all railroad operations in the Ruhr and surrounding areas. View of U.S. bombers in formation (with fighter cover overhead) on bombing missions in Operation Clarion, against all small and medium rail junctions in Germany. View from Allied bomber of Bombs falling and exploding at a rail junction. More aerial views of bombs exploding in numerous places during this operation. An American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber dropping bombs on a railroad marshaling yard. Aerial view of bombs exploding on targets in Essen. Views of wide destruction wrought at German railroad facilities. A US Army Air Forces P-51 fighter plane descending to strafe a target. Gun camera views of aircraft strafing lines of communication in Germany, including road and barge traffic. Closeup of runs firing from P-51 aircraft. Railroad trains being strafed and dramatic explosions at target rail sites.
German Navy or Kriegsmarine Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz at a military recognition ceremony in Germany circa 1928. Von Tirpitz stands with a cane. He acknowledges the crowd gathered. Other German military officers stand by. In a flashback scene from World War I, German U-boat submarine SM U-35 seen in Mediterranean sea as waves crash over the bow. Surface torpedo tube. Steam transport ship being hit and sinks during Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare campaign.
A large field in Germany, filled with American tanks and armored vehicles. Closeup rear view of tank driver in turret of American M36 tank destroyer (rear view). More U.S. Army armored vehicles moving during maneuvers along roads in Germany. Closeups, from front and rear, of U.S. soldier in turret of one. American soldiers preparing a mortar for firing. Soldiers prepare an Honest John surface to surface missile for launch. Supporting vehicles contain launching equipment, including including rail of tubular steel. Next, soldiers stand next to the missile with its launching rail raised slightly. Closeup of soldiers atop the missile making adjustments. The missile is launched with fiery wake. American soldiers launch and board small boats, powered with outboard motors, to cross a river during their maneuvers. They arrive at a river bank and climb it. Complete change of scene German commercial industrial activity. ships are seen in a harbor. On the shore in the background are numerous cargo handling cranes and other equipment. View, from floating dock, of passenger liner being towed by a tugboat. Views of slips lined with cargo-handling cranes. A large ship docked next to cranes and other equipment. Steam rising from a large funnel. Workers enter a steel mill. Inside the plant, men work with molten steel. Outdoors men are seen fabricating something from steel sheets. A large machine shop is seen not in operation except for a supervisor instructing a trainee. Views of a German Isetta microcar leaving the factory. A dozen new Isetta cars parked in factory lot. Complete change of scene, again. German farmers (men and women) are seen raking a field using hand implements. A threshing machine is operating. A mother and small son churning butter with wooden hand implements in their kitchen. A German family seated all together at a meal. West Germans gathered at an amusement park with a ride called: "Auto Scooter," and a merry go round behind them. They watch a team of decorated horses pulling a wagon filled with beer barrels, on which women in traditional country costumes ride. The barrels bear the Crown and HB mark of the Hofbräu München beer company. Women beer hall employees in serving uniforms raise beer mugs as they ride a decorated wagon. In a Munich street, two persons dressed as beer mugs parade followed by Bakers in working white uniforms carrying giant facsimile pretzels and roast turkeys. Next, are a contingent of men dressed as dignitaries of the past. The parade passes the Schottenhamel Festhalle. Camera focuses on amusement park patrons enjoying various rides. A couple sits at an outdoor table drinking mugs of beer.
Relief activities of Quakers, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in postwar Germany (after World War 1). A dog helps his owner to pull cart loaded with milk cans, in Dresden, Germany. The Dog, "Sultan" is seen. Point of view (POV) shot from a moving railroad train, looking forward toward other train cars and the locomotive, as it carries AFSC food relief supplies to Southern Saxony Erzebirge village of Heidelberg-Seiffen. Group of thin, undernourished boys and girls walking on road in village where food is being delivered for hungry children. Views of the Village, (described in a slate as the town of Santa Claus due to all the toy makers living there) seen from a moving vehicle driving along a road. A bullock cart moves along the road. Boys run about, excited by the presence of cinematographer in their village. Children watch a toy maker working outside his home in Heidelberg-Seiffen.
American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) relief activities in Germany after World War I. Children gather in school yard in Old Dresden to eat white rolls and bean soup. Hungry children sit in rows to eat . Children seen sitting in pram. Officials receive contributions of clothing and read letters of thanks from children and citizens in Headquarters offices of the American Friends Service Committee in Berlin, Germany. A letter of thanks from a girls school. A nurse examining and massaging a girl patient afflicted with rachitis from malnourishment. Concerns about Tuberculosis and rickets in the children. A woman seen with a child in her arms.
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