"CHRONICLE OF THE YEAR 1946" Part 2

Description

,Summary: Snow-covered houses in German village. Party in fantastic costumes wandering through the streets during snowfall. Kitchen sieves are produced from discarded war helmets. Ints at Dachau. Thirty-five defendants on trial are condemned to death by hanging. Gottfried Weiss, former commander of Dachau, before tribunal. In US zone of Germany, first free elections are held. The Christian Social Union gained majority. In outdoor sports arena, spectators witness the first inter-zonal soccer game. Steel production is revived. Blackmarket operates openly around the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. German civilian police making arrests of blackmarketeers. Suspects are herded away in trucks. In Hamburg, grain is unloaded from US and British ships. South African Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts visits schoolchildren in British zone. In the Berlin Tiergarten, vegetable gardens are started by German nationals. At Tempelhof, the New York-Berlin airline inaugurates first flight service since WWII. POWs returning by train to Berlin. Cut-ins of the returnees being greeted by their families. The Allied Control Committee meeting in Berlin. The chiefs of the big four, Gen Joseph T McNarney, Sir Sholto Douglas, Fr Gen Koenig, and Russian Marshal Sokolovski. Demolition of bomb- wrecked buildings in German city. In Stuttgart, US secretary of State James H Byrnes makes a speech in which he says that America wants Germany to take a respected place in the family of nations. Ambassador Robert Murphy, and US Senators Vandenberg, Connolly on rostrum. Free elections in the British zone. At Nuremberg the International Military Tribunal concludes the trial of the Nazi leaders. Gen Dwight D Eisenhower at Tempelhof Airport bids good-bye to French Gen Koenig and Ambassador Murphy. LS, puppet show. Reaction shots of children watching performance. Excellent CUs of their expression as they yell, laugh, cry, and applaud. Refugees come out of freight cars, look over maps. Old woman making lace, Men in workshop. Boys trained as miners go on the night shift in the Ruhr district, CU, Ernest Bevin, Sec of State James F Byrnes, at meeting at which they sign a treaty uniting the American and British zones. Shots of German factories, Ski meet on the Zugspite, Pigs in pen.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities