GERMANY, "HANDLE WITH CARE" Part 2

Description

Summary: American and French police check papers and belongings of Germans entering the American zone. Seq: American and German police chase and capture German gun-runners. LS, wrecked German buildings. Int, "Werewolf" gang meeting.(Ex-Nazi diehards) VS, general activity in the German black market square. MS, American soldier sells cigarettes in the black market. Seq: German police raid and arrest members of the black market. VS, German de- nazification court in session. Gen Lucius D Clay speaks at news conference. VA, Germans at their first democratic political meeting. VS, Germans voting at their first free election. Seq: German male acting with servility before US officer, but after leaving room looks vindictively in direction of officer. VS, trains leaving wrecked station and workers repairing rails and tracks. VS, building new trucks. Munich Exposition showing some of the items produced for export. German civilians walking streets; wrecked buildings in bg. VS, factories in the Ruhr Valley. VS, wrecked Krupp factories. LS, steel smelting plant in operation; workers pouring steel. Coal cars leaving Ruhr valley. Animated charts showing the "Production and Export" of coal during 1937 and 1946. VS, miners entering and leaving mines. Seq: Miners eating and taking half of their food out to their children. German civilians exchanging soap for potatoes. LS, State building in Washington, DC. MS, Secretary of State James F Byrnes dictating to secretary. VS, Gen Lucius Clay speaking to members of the British Occupational government. MS, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov and Byrnes posing for photographers. VS, farming and steel refining. American MPs riding along streets. German workers making farm equipment. VS, CUs, German children seated at dinner table.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities