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Reconstruction of the German economy with the help of American loans through the Marshall Plan: 18 flags of the nations involved in the European reconstruction program. Machine construction, building construction, factory yards. Editing rooms of the "Neue Deutsche Wochenschau", storage of film tapes and editing of films. Fields with irrigation machinery for kohlrabi cultivation in Reichenau, man holding kohlrabi to camera. Film editing in the editing rooms of the Deutsche Wochenschau. Shipyard, the commissioning of German hydroelectric power plants, dam in North Rhine-Westphalia. (00:00:00-00:02:56) Huddled family in shelter. Line of people in front of food distribution shortly after WW2. Exchange of ration cards, war ruins, passersby in small German town. Body search for contraband. Excavator shoveling debris from road, train running on a track. Bricklayers building houses, former military barracks are reused for economic purposes. Interior shot of a glass foundry in Hesse, milk and milk glass production. Work on packaging machine for butter, food warehouse, storage of pork. New houses of refugees, alleged refugees on the way to the West. Tractors driving across the street of a small town in Thuringia to surrounding fields, tractor with plow driving across a field, cows being driven onto a farm. Benedictine abbey in Grüssau, monk talks about the ERP loan that helped him build up a farm. Apartment blocks of a small town with children playing on the sidewalk, interior shot of a family house with view from the window. Textile factory in operation, various power plants producing electricity in West Germany, industrial port. Scene of happy German family at table with working man, housewife and child. (00:02:56-00:11:08) (text machine-translated)