01 years Federal Republic of Germany Assembly: Eagle, great. Lufthansa, horse racing, Castle Neuschwanstein, blonde girl. Folk dance, satellite receiving station, port, Steffi Graf, goods train with passenger cars, flight display, football, Brandenburg Gate.
Black and white: 1945: battle for Berlin. Russians hoist flag on's Brandenburg Gate of Eisenhower in Berlin.
Color: map 4 zones. Separation of the eastern territories, Berlin map with flag. Black and white: Berlin air bridge. 1948: Constituent Assembly meets. 1949: Proclamation of the basic law. Topping-out ceremony Bundeshaus Bonn.
Color: Tag Federal House. Bonn is 2000 years. Government buildings. Villa Hammerschmidt. Cologne Cathedral. Industry images. Young citizens. Kohl, bird, Bundestag session. Federal Eagle. East German border. Watchtowers. European elections. Meeting of the European Council. Car traffic. Railway. Hannover Messe. NATO meeting. German French maneuvers. Kohl - Mitterrand hand-in-hand. Reagents at Kohl, Elizabeth II. von Weizsäcker. Coal in the United States. Reagents in Berlin: 'Mr. Gorbatschow open this gate."
Black and white: 17 June 1953 - 1961: construction of the wall color: look over the border of East Germany. Border traffic. Kohl in Moscow. Economy and technology and aerospace. Nobel Laureate Klaus von Klitzing. Billows of smoke. Polluted rivers and fish. Wastewater treatment plant. Chimney pictures. Car exhaust. Automation. Industrial robots. Employment Office. Unemployment in hallways. Retraining courses. Pensioners. Leisure. Jogging, bike, ball game, travel, flight display.
The Federal Republic is member of the United Nations. Genscher speaks before the United Nations - Bavarian Church. Neuschwanstein, Hamburg, Cologne Cathedral, hiking along the Rhine.
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"40 years of Federal Republic of Germany" 40 years, a short period of time in the life of a people, and but a cause for celebration for the people of a country. Because they have built up a State on the ruins of the second world war, which worth watching.
40 years of Federal Republic of Germany - these are 40 years of peace and freedom, security and stability, prosperity and social justice.
But a success denied the Germans: still stands the wall in Berlin. An insurmountable boundary divides the country.
May 1945. Germany has surrendered. Red Army soldiers secure their flag atop the Brandenburg Gate.
The winners visit the destroyed Reich capital.
The German eastern territories are placed under Soviet, partly under Polish administration.
The other Germany is divided into four zones of occupation.
Berlin is divided into four sectors. The victorious Powers want to govern together but the former imperial capital. But soon the relationship deteriorate, the Soviet Union blocked a cooperation of the victorious powers. In June 1948, she locks all access routes to Berlin as the Western powers in their occupation zones and Berlin sectors perform a currency reform. The West supplied the population with an air bridge, until the Soviet Union gives up their blockade after a year.
In September 1948, a constituent Assembly meets in Bonn. The basic law is proclaimed the Federal Republic of Germany on 23 May 1949 - Constitution today.
The Pedagogical Academy in Bonn celebrates 20 years after its founding a second topping: their Assembly Hall will be expanded to the hemicycle of the Parliament of the new Federal Republic.
Here, on 7 September 1949, the first German meets Bundestag.
40 years after the former Assembly Hall will be converted again. The State provisional in the first years has become a State with global ties. And Bonn, the 2000-year-old city on the Rhine, has long since grown into its capital role.
Since the early years, much has changed in the Federal Republic. In a fundamental sense: the founding generation is dead, more than half of Germans living today was born after the war.
Security in peace and freedom, are the central values that revolves around the the thinking and actions of citizens. They've had enough of political extremes. They encounter new influences and developments closed up and with good judgement.
Not only a commandment of the Constitution, but the conviction of all citizens is that human rights are inviolable and inalienable.
Foreign observers attest to the political stability of the Federal Republic. The central questions of the citizens agree: the social rule of law must be protected and developed and widened its economic foundation. High voter turnout, a Bundestag without extremist parties, negotiation enabled Governments label the political situation.
In the consciousness of citizens, their State is inextricably associated with the Western community of Nations. With the East, the Federal Republic wishes a relaxed, peaceful neighborhood, due to its location in the middle of Europe.
That Europe must unite economically and politically, among the Grundmaximen of German foreign policy for 40 years. The Federal Republic is a founding member of the European Community. She strongly advocates that the planned European single market is carried out.
in 1992, all trade and border should fall between the 12 Member States of the European Community.
Then people, capital and goods are can - move freely for the benefit of 320 million consumers. A large free market for the whole world is created.
The Federal Republic is firmly anchored in the West in their defence policy. The roughly 500,000 German soldiers are the Alliance of 16 NATO Staatenunterstellt and the mainstay of the defense in Central Europe.
Co-developed by the federal policy, to seek a constructive dialogue, on the basis of secure defense capability with the East is bearing fruit.
The relationship with France is particularly close and friendly. The Germans and French, century-long enemies and then become friends, see their reconciliation as an example and incentive for the growing together of Europe.
Foreign visitors take the impression that there are only a few countries, so have opened the world such as the Federal Republic of Germany.
Also across the Atlantic is working with friends and allies by mutual trust and continuity. The allies know the problems in divided Berlin suffered especially Berlin. 1953 East Berlin construction workers had torn the Communist flag from the Brandenburg Gate: symbolic high point of the uprising in East Germany.
then in 1961, the construction of the wall. The rulers in the German Democratic Republic closed off their land to the West: a symbol of isolation and lack of freedom. Still shot here on people, who want to go from one part of their fatherland in the other.
But to many East Germans visit Meanwhile, after tough negotiations with the Government in East Berlin, their relatives and friends in the West.
Gorbachev prevail with his reform course? Hope many people in the Federal Republic. Because only a peaceful United Europe, in which the borders lose their meaning, opened also the Germans the chance to get together again someday.
Economy and technology determine the personality of the Federal Republic. The fourth industrial country in the world is well prepared for the challenges of the future. The Germans rely on their economic performance, its technical and scientific potential. Data processing, communications, air - and space: Also belongs the Federal Republic in the high-tech of leading industrial countries.
High expenses for science and basic research pays off in the long term.
Klaus von Klitzing is one of the seven German scientists who were awarded in recent years with the Nobel Prize.
Many Germans are committed to environmental protection. Numerous civil initiatives have contributed to that protecting the environment was recognized as a political challenge. Billions of German marks have been invested in recent years to make clean air and rivers.
The Federal Republic of Germany is also in the solution of international problems, such as the conservation of tropical forests and the reduction of the ozone hole -. It has lobbied in the European Community successfully for clean air, low-emission cars and lead-free gasoline.
Economic performance and prosperity are the material basis for the high-level social protection in the Federal Republic.
Who is unemployed, gets its money from the unemployment insurance fund for each worker must pay contributions. Unemployment will receive up to 70 percent of their last earnings. In addition, you can visit free of charge professional retraining courses.
Workers at the latest with 65 years retiring from professional life. Her pension is up to 75 percent of their previous wages and increased to the same extent as the income of the working population. The Eventide is secured.
Leisure time is a top priority in the Federal Republic. The days are gone when you could say of the Germans, they would just live to work.
Long, the Federal Republic is also international tasks. As a member of the United Nations, where she financed a part of the UN budget and is committed to a concerted effort by the international community. In development, it belongs to the biggest donor countries. And it has opened its market for goods from the third world.
This country lives in peace and harmony with himself in the center of Europe. It agrees with its friends and allies continue to build a common Europe and a peaceful world.
