Format:
1 Online-Ressource (video file 1:19:06)
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Sound, Black and White
Series Statement:
Socialism on Film
Content:
Feature-length documentary which takes a look at the events of the immediate postwar period, and compares life on both sides of the Berlin Wall
Content:
The western part of the city is shown to be Americanised and immoral with high crime and suicide rates, and clubs for vengeful former Nazis. Against a background of newsreel footage from the Second World War, its aftermath and the partition of Berlin, East Germany is shown to be a morally superior land of industrialisation and voluntary rubble clearers, where a wall had been built to defend against fascist forces in West Germany. Archive shots include the funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the visits of Willy Brandt and Bobby Kennedy to the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet liberation of concentration camps
Note:
Archive Reference: N-507156
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Reproduction of GDR (German Democratic Republic), c. 1961
Language:
English
URL:
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