Description: I. Germany: municipal elections in 40 towns in US Zone. Film of polling in Frankfurt and Munich, of special voting facilities for hospital patients, of vote counting etc.
II. Arrival in Berlin of first American airliner, marking re-opening of the New York - Berlin service.
III. Hamburg: traditional relay race.
IV. "The reconstruction." a. Berlin: bridgebuilding, and explosive demolition (with film of women demolition engineers; precision demolition near a railway; and levelling of a whole block). b. Hamburg: mechanised rubble clearing. c. Brief looks at Wuppertal, Cologne, Düsseldorf. d. Tour of the old town of Bamberg.
V. Princess Elizabeth launches a tanker, British Princess.
VI. German steel-helmets are converted into enamelled cooking utensils (saucepans and colanders) in a factory.
VII. "Bilder aus aller Welt." a. American civilian scheme of air-freight deliveries by parachute. b. Archery contest in France. c. The Kentucky Derby in USA. d. Bear cubs in Chicago zoo.
