The economic and cultural improvements of the Soviet Occupied Sector are documented with scenes from the years 1945 to 1950. The film deals with the land reform, the founding of the Socialist Unity Party, the expropriation of war criminals, the founding of the GDR and the first Five Year Plan in July 1950. Special attention is dedicated to the setup of the steel industry. All this is shown in contrast to the new Federal Republic of Germany, where unemployment, slums and the West Berlin airlift prevail. The Cold War of those years is reflected in the film as well as a part of the development of post-war Germany.
The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.
One journalist described it as a chance "to see justice catch up with evil." On November 20, 1945, t...
The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywo...
During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British No...
Pinky Thompson grew up in Hawaii during a time when one was punished for being Native Hawaiian. Afte...
Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of ye...
How could a German Wehrmacht soldier become a celebrated soccer idol of the Britons in the post-war ...
January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...
A 4-year-old girl cries, lost in the city. A Soviet soldier on a ferry takes her in and takes her to...
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblink...