1950’s “ SCENES FROM GERMANY ” 1959 VISIT OF PRESIDENT EISENHOWER TO GERMANY & TRAVELOGUE 24744

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This film, narrated in German, shows a brief tour of Germany in the mid 1950’s. It was presented by the Int’l Film Bureau (:09) and narrated by Meno Spann (:22) from the German Department NW University. The US Embassy building (:39), known as the Diechmannsaue Castle opens the film. US President Eisenhower visits the country in August of 1959 (:48) as German’s welcome his arrival (:57). Police on motorcycles escort the American president through town (1:20). The troupe arrives at the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn which had served as the primary residency of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1950 to 1994 (1:43). Here he meets with government officials including the German President of the time, Theodor Heuss (1:51). Areas in the Rhineland; a strip of land which borders France, Belgium and the Netherlands, are looked