What will happen to West Berlin?

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Movie
Original title What will happen to West Berlin?
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1963
length 12 minutes
Rod
Director Dagobert Loewenberg
script Dagobert Loewenberg
production DEFA studio for documentary films
on behalf of the MfAA
music Kurt Grottke
camera Rudolf Schemmel
cut Sigrid Gebauer
occupation

Hans Maikowski : Speaker

What will happen to West Berlin? is a documentary by DEFA-Studios for newsreels and documentaries by Dagobert Loewenberg from 1963.

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The commentary begins with the statement that West Germany and the German Democratic Republic are two independent states in Europe. In the middle of the GDR is West Berlin , which 17 years after the end of the Second World War is still under the occupation regime of the USA , England and France . Split off from the GDR, West Berlin is still NATO's eastern vanguard and a source of unrest in Europe .

The film accuses the western allies of using West Berlin for military maneuvers , military parades and other great power games. Furthermore, he tries to uncover that the fascists can again act unhindered there, swastikas in churches and schools have become a matter of course again. In the school books one negates the borders created by the Second World War and demands that they be removed. The illegal participation of West German government members in revanchist and similar events in West Berlin is denounced, as the hatred against other peoples, against people of other religions , skin colors and worldview is openly preached here.

In West Berlin, young people are already being called to border provocations and are whipped up into dangerous adventures, such as throwing stones at the GDR border guards. A particularly horrific example is the shooting of Sergeant Reinhold Huhn , which is a game with fire and which could have triggered the Third World War, because at this state border, NATO and the Warsaw Pact , two world systems face each other. Pictures of court hearings in the GDR show that there is a multitude of agent networks in West Berlin that see their purpose in undermining the GDR and the other socialist states.

The documentary ends with recordings that are supposed to prove that East Berlin , the capital of the GDR, is a peace-loving city. It begins with visits by a parliamentary delegation from the Republic of Mali , the cosmonaut German Stepanowitsch Titow and the American singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson . Pictures of the inauguration of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial serve as an example of anti-fascist thinking in the GDR. The demand for a peaceful Free City of West Berlin with the assumption of certain functions by the United Nations also serves the peace of the world . The wish is that this Free City of West Berlin will soon become a reality and thus another trouble spot in the world can be extinguished.

Production and publication

What will happen to West Berlin? was shot on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR by the DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries under the working title Revanchism in West Berlin using archive material as black and white film.

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