Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 354/1956 09.11.1956

1st uprising in Hungary newspaper headlines. Protest rally in Budapest. Roadblocks. Tanks drive through the streets. Burning of books and red flags. Carried the injured on stretchers. Storm on the building of the State security service. Corpses on the road. Devastation and death. Grieving. Intervention of the Soviet tanks. Schafts Communist star. Refugee trek to the Austrian border. Families and children, infants. Weeping people leave their homes. Weapons are delivered. Stream of refugees. Soviet tanks block the border. Protests around the world. UN resolution fails because of Russian veto.

02. war in Egypt the UN Security Council is prevented by British and French veto. By a large majority, the UN is the Assembly for peace in the Middle East. French and British soldiers go on troop transports. Israeli tanks driving through the Sinai. Revenue of the Gaza border. Egyptian prisoners. Mass demonstration in England against the war. Riots, street fighting. Police locks Downingstreet. Setting of fire to the Suez after Soviet Russian ultimatum.

03. Hamburg: Senate adopts all-German Olympic team at the Town Hall of Senate-passed with Mayor Engelhard German athletes Melbourne, including Manfred Germar, Erika Fisch, Heinz Fütterer, Martin Lauer. At the airfield, Erika Fisch are autographs and interview interview: "Do you think that the German team with good prospects will fly to Melbourne?" Erika Fisch: "with good prospects, we fly safely to Melbourne, but I hope so confident that it expects not even Too much of us. The most important is that we must be before all things." Reporter: "anyway, we express all the thumbs For you." Erika Fisch: "right thank you very much." Board aircraft. Waving.

04. Olympic city of Melbourne welcome Olympic Games. Street scene. Swimming and athletics stadium.

Title: Hungary revolution war in Egypt origin: Pathe news Suez demonstrations in Britain origin: Pathe news departure German Olympic team Melbourne camera: Seib, basic conclusion:

The policy of violence we To write Wednesday, November 7, 4:00 am. This is the time at which this report of the NDW was collected. So began the uprising in Hungary: on October 23, with a protest move against the Soviet-oriented regime. A day later the first weapons were collected. The revolt took its inexorable course. Hungary scored on Hungary. The unfortunate civil war was there. The red flags were burned. Stake in Communist literature blazed up. Then began the assault on the AVO House. The building of the State security service. After fierce fighting, the police headquarters was turn. The members of the State security service, the insurgents took terrible revenge. Only a few could be wrested from her arrest of the fury of the crowd. The civil war was almost finished. Its visible tracks were destroyed weapons, devastated houses. And the dead were countless. But the success that seemed so close, did not materialise. Soviet troops marched into Hungary. The insurgents can be equipped to the last fight. The struggle was in vain. Set in a trek to the Austrian border. Hungarian soldiers who retreating before the superiority, were disarmed and interned. Thousands of refugees left their homeland. Then the current tore off. Soviet tanks stood on the border. Around the world, protests were loud against the action of the USSR. A resolution against the intervention of the UN was not a hearing.
At the same time: war in Egypt. England and France intervened. The British French veto prevented a UN Security Council decision. The General Assembly voted by a large majority for peace. However, the fight went on. French troops were drawn together for use against Egypt, like British soldiers. Meanwhile, Israeli troops had crossed the Sinai desert. Many Egyptians were captured. The Israeli army continued in the area of the Suez Canal. The weapons down! It was not only the demand of most of the world - also in England itself a mass demonstration against a war found Instead of the terrible consequences of which seemed tangibly close for all. In the excited crowd resulted in violent clashes. The Downing Street had to be closed down because wanted to draw demonstrators to the seat of Government. Finally, in the night, the redemptive message came to November 7. England and France gave the sign to the cease-fire on the disputed Canal after a Soviet ultimate claim.

The international kick-off to the peaceful competition while war and bloody riots rocked the world, prepare themselves for the peaceful encounter of their athletes in Melbourne, Australia. In Hamburg, the German Olympic team prior to their departure after Australia was adopted by the Senate. The threatening clouds in the political sky, which had endangered the implementation of games, seem to have warped. The NDW will show their Olympic reports in detail whether the muted optimism was entitled, who emerged from an interview with the relay runner Erika Fisch at the Hamburg Airport.
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A Charter flight is the flight via Istanbul and Tehran. Meanwhile, Melbourne is ready to welcome its guests. In this Hall, the float will measure their forces. And also in the big Stadium of the athletes, the Olympic idea of fair competition to bring together the youth of the world in peace and friendship.

Date of Release:

09.11.1956

Year of Production:

1956

Camera Work:

Grund; Seib, Gerhard

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Pathé News

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German