Eyewitness Newsreels : DEFA Film Library : UMass Amherst

This series of short films screened in movie theaters before the feature film offers an interesting glimpse into daily events in East Germany.

Eyewitness: The 1940s

Part 1 (1946-1947)

No. 001, 02/19/1946:	The Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Boxing Match Eder-Przibilski
No. 003, 03/01/1946:	Free German Trade Union Federation, Furtwängler in Berlin, Hair
No. 016, 08/30/1946:	Lord Beveridge in Berlin, Dresden Kennels, "Circus Princesses"
No. 023, 10/18/1946:	Molotov in Paris, Eisenhower in Berlin, Troubles in Berlin
No. 025, 11/01/1946:	Children's Train Excursion, Elections in Berlin, Crispbread in Burg
No. 036, 01/17/1947:	Construction Lottery in Dresden, Montgomery Travels to Moscow
No. 038, 01/31/1947:	Comedian Cabaret, Penicillin Production
No. 044, 03/14/1947:	First Day of the Leipzig Fair, Bebel Celebration in the Berlin National Opera
No. 045, 03/21/1947:	General Marshall in Berlin, Moscow Conference, Fashion Show
No. 053, 05/16/1947:	Buchenwald Concentration Camp Victims, Anna Segher, Soccer

Part 2 (1947-1948)

No. 062, 07/18/1947:	Returning POW's from Russia, International Tennis Match
No. 063, 07/25/1947:	Monaco Celebrates, Tour de France Bicycle Race, Yachting
No. 071, 09/26/1947:	Boxing Match Hucks-Gahrmeister, Construction in Kursk
No. 084, 12/26/1947:	Retrospective, Christmas Shindig, Comic Opera "The Bat"
No. 093, 02/27/1948:	Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Thale Ironworks
No. 100, 04/16/1948:	Berlin and the Zone Borders, Fashion in Paris, Housing Conditions
No. 102, 04/30/1948:	Trial of the War Criminal Görlitzer, Spring in Berlin
No. 115, 07/30/1948:	Motorcycle Race in Berlin, National Opera: "Romeo and Juliet"
No. 118, 08/20/1948:	Explosion in Ludwigshafen, Children with Godparents
No. 121, 09/10/1948:	Opening of the National Theater in Weimar, W. Staudte Shoots a Film

Part 3 (1948-1949)

No. 130, 11/12/1948:	Boxing Match Schmeling-Vogt, Dresden National Theater
No. 135, 12/17/1948:	Toy Manufacture, Airlift, Free German Youth (FDJ) Activists
No. 137, 12/31/1948:	The Year in Retrospect
No. 009, 03/04/1949:	Hype about West Berlin Currency, Fashion for Big and Small
No. 020, 05/20/1949:	Soviet Cenotaph in Berlin-Treptow, Rescindment of the Blockade
No. 028, 07/15/1949:	Baltic Sea Vacations, Berlin National Opera: "Sleeping Beauty"
No. 031, 08/05/1949:	T. Mann in Weimar, 600 Years of Sunny Mountain, Sanssouci Visit
No. 048, 12/02/1949:	Christmas in the Berlin Pleasure Garden, Barlay Circus: Baby Lions
No. 050, 12/16/1949:	Seventieth Birthday of J.W. Stalin
No. 052, 12/30/1949:	Retrospect 1949 with the foundation of the GDR

Eyewitness: The 1950s

Part 1 (1950-1953)

No. 011, 03/17/1950:	Leipzig Spring Fair 1950
No. 028, 07/14/1950:	Foreign Legionnaires in Vietnam, Sosa Dam, Gymnastics
No. 023, 06/01/1951:	Launch of the "Wilhelm Pieck," GDR Soccer Championship Finals
No. 033, 08/10/1951:	Third World Festival Games by the Youth and Students for Peace in Berlin
No. 053, 12/28/1951:	Caricaturists, Visit to a Liqueur Factory, "Happy New Year"
No. 002, 01/11/1952:	National Construction Program Berlin, Adenauer and Knechtsand Island
No. 021, 05/23/1952:	Essener Bloody Sunday, Book Week, Teletype from Chemnitz
No. 049, 12/05/1952:	Christmas Trees from the Thuringian Forest, Mansfeld Combine
No. 026, 06/26/1953:	Crimes of the Rosenbergs, TB Innoculations from Jena
No. 030, 07/24/1953:	Fallingbostel: Nazi Rally, "Avus" Race, Holiday in Thuringia

Part 2 (1954-1956)

No. 006, 02/01/1954:	Four Powers Conference in Berlin, Defeat for ten Hoff in the U.S.A.
No. 012, 03/19/1954:	"Ernst Thälmann" Film Premiere, Otto Grotewohl Turns 60, "Thistle"
No. 028, 07/09/1954:	Press Conference with Former Field Marshall Paulus
No. 052, 12/24/1954:	Border Guard, Xmas at the Head of the Train, East-West Celebration
No. 006, 02/11/1955:	10th Anniversary of the Destruction of Berlin, Mardi Gras
No. 017, 04/29/1955:	Albert Einstein Dies, Lenin's 85th Birthday
No. 052, 12/30/1955:	The 500th Eyewitness - An Anniversary Show
No. 034, 08/24/1956:	KPD Banned - Report from Karlsruhe, Bertolt Brecht Dies
No. 051, 12/21/1956:	Highlights of the 16th Olympic Games
No. 052, 12/28/1956:	Our Republic 1956, West Germany: Rock n' Roll and Military Drafts

Part 3 (1957-1959)

No. 039, 06/11/1957:	Wedding of F.J. Strauss, Manöver: 15 Soldiers, Speedboat EM
No. 082, 11/08/1957:	Sputnik II with Laika, Ulbricht and Grotewohl Travel to Moscow
No. 095, 12/23/1957:	Year in Retrospect
No. 016, 02/21/1958:	Attack of Tunisia, Flak Unit of the National People's Army, Friedrichstadtpalast
No. 037, 05/06/1958:	May First: the Battle of Nuclear Death: National and International Reports
No. 045, 06/03/1958:	General de Gaulle in France, Berlin Presents Fashion "Line 58"
No. 021, 03/10/1959:	Khruschev at the Leipzig Fair, Alpine Ski Championship
No. 032, 04/17/1959:	Grotewohl on Adenauer, Professor Hagemann on Unity, Youth Celebration
No. 072, 09/04/1959:	GDR Convicts 4 German and American Agents, International Motor Boat Race
No. 082, 10/09/1959:	10th Anniversary of the GDR

Eyewitness: The 1960s

Part 1 (1960-1963)

No. 016, 02/19/1960:	NATO Troops in West Berlin, Leipzig Zoo, Cross-country Driver
No. 035, 04/26/1960:	DEFA Film "Mother Courage," Ivory from Carrara, Basketball
No. 057, 07/12/1960:	Baltic Sea Week 1960
No. 025, 06/20/1961:	20th Anniversary of Military Aggression Against USSR, Kennedy Rally
No. 037, 09/12/1961:	Song About Willy Brandt & the 13th of August by Three Armor Soldiers
No. 052, 12/27/1961:	That Was 1961
No. 010, 03/07/1962:	Leipzig Fair, 6th Anniversary of the National People's Army with a Big Tattoo
No. 045, 11/07/1962:	The "Spiegel" Affair, Leningrad Ballet "Dying Swan"
No. 045, 11/06/1963:	Birthplace of the Satellite, Seelenbinder Commemorative School of Gymnastics
No. 048, 11/27/1963:	JFK's Assassination, Racing Battle Vehicles, Motor Boat Race

Part 2 (1964-1966)

No. 040, 09/30/1964:	Farewell to Otto Grotewohl, "Täve" Schur Ends Career
No. 042, 10/14/1964:	15th Anniversary of the GDR, DEFA Films in Zanzibar, Curling
No. 045, 11/04/1964:	Pass Agreement - Citizens of West Berlin in the GDR Capitol
No. 011, 03/10/1965:	800 Years of Leipzig - 800 Year Fair, Handball
No. 042, 10/13/1965:	Guests from the Cosmos, Shots from "The Sons of the Great Bear"
No. 046, 11/10/1965:	Visiting with Heinrich Zille's Daughter, Modern Pentathlon
No. 022, 05/22/1966:	"Workers' Slap in the Face" for Lübke, Atomic Energy in GDR
No. 034, 08/17/1966:	8/13/1966=5 Yrs Since Construction of the Wall=Peacekeeping Manifesto!
No. 038, 09/14/1966:	8 Gold Medals: European Track and Field Championship
No. 051, 12/14/1966:	Hanoi - Berlin, Ice Hockey, Interesting Facts about Festival Day Roasts

Part 3 (1967-1969)

No. 010, 03/01/1967:	Around Alexanderplatz: the Center of the Capitol Emerges
No. 018, 05/10/1967:	7th SED Party Congress, Consumer Goods with a Kick, 5,000 Hens in the Coop
No. 025, 06/28/1967:	Bloody Friday in West Berlin: the Murder of Benno Ohnesorg, Model Railway
No. 032, 08/09/1967:	New Mühlendamm Bridge, Alexanderplatz, Jack Kramer and Tennis
No. 017, 04/17/1968:	Dr. Martin Luther King Assassinated, European Boxing Cup
No. 032, 07/31/1968:	Youth Fashion, Jenapharm, Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler
No. 044, 10/23/1968:	Mexico City: Summer Olympic Games Report
No. 009, 02/19/1969:	Gabriele Seyfert is Victorious in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
No. 042, 10/08/1969:	20th Anniversary of the GDR
No. 053, 12/24/1969:	Television Cook Kurt Drummer, Apartments of Tomorrow

Eyewitness: The 1970s

Part 1 (1970-1973)

No. 006, 02/03/1970:	Auschwitz: Warning and Responsibility, 20 Years of National Security
No. 013, 03/24/1970:	Stoph-Brandt in Erfurt, Indoor European Track and Field Championship
No. 021, 05/21/1970:	Trips to Cuba, Nepal and Gdynia, Sports: Speedway, Soccer
No. 030, 07/21/1971:	Baltic Sea Week, Tromper Wieck: Campus March, Carpets from Baghdad
No. 044, 10/27/1971:	Free Angela Davis, Picasso Turns 90 - Looking Back, Sailing Regatta
No. 015, 04/05/1972:	Barzel and the Peace, Daniel Gérard "Butterfly," Menus for Children
No. 026, 06/19/1972:	Fidel Castro Visits the GDR, 14th Worker Festival
No. 034, 08/08/1973:	10th World Fair
No. 035, 08/13/1973:	A Nation in Mourning: Walter Ulbricht Died on August 1st
No. 052, 12/14/1973:	Vienna Music Society: James Last, Christmas Celebration with Pit-Plash

Part 2 (1974-1976)

No. 028, 07/01/1974:	World Soccer Championship: GDR-FRG: 1:0, Eulenspiegel Publishing House
No. 031, 07/22/1974:	Gladys Marin - Visit to the GDR
No. 038, 09/03/1974:	Mecklenburg - How a Village Gave a Strip of Land Its Name
No. 048, 11/25/1974:	Palace of the Republic Topping-Out Ceremony, Harvest, Christmas Markets
No. 001, 01/03/1975:	The Carnation Revolution
No. 026, 06/27/1975:	Conference for Safety and Cooperation, 30 Years of the United Nations
No. 032, 08/08/1975:	Peace Agreement of Helsinki, Fifth Children and Youth "Spartakiade"
No. 010, 03/05/1976:	ORWO, Innsbruck: Highlights of the Winter Olympics
No. 017, 04/23/1976:	30 Years of the DEFA Weekly Newsreel "The Eyewitness"
No. 024, 06/11/1976:	Cuban Cement Works, Trucks from Bela's Factory, Applied Arts Museum

Part 3 (1977-1980)

No. 044, 10/28/1977:	Ernst Barlach, Stralsund: Ocean Museum, Excavation at Rügen
No. 007, 02/10/1978:	Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
No. 019, 05/05/1978:	9 Young Artists, Dance Tournament: 23 Couples from 10 Countries
No. 041, 10/06/1978:	Joined on the Earth and in the Universe: Space Flight GDR - USSR
No. 052, 12/22/1978:	Year in Review: Thoughts and Opinions
No. 019, 05/11/1979:	Hovercraft, Sports: Sky Diving, Mountain Climbing, Skateboarding
No. 004, 01/25/1980:	Boney M - Concert in Warsaw, Remains of the Incas: Machu Picchu
No. 010, 03/07/1980:	10th Political Song Festival: Songs Are the Brothers of the Revolution
No. 040, 10/03/1980:	History of Aviation, Profile of a Future Officer
No. 051, 12/19/1980:	We Were There - the Last "Eyewitness"