Wittstock III (1978)

Edith Rupp is frustrated: she has just spent six months as a bandleader making sure that the band worked well together, and now she is supposed to take over another one where the workers are not working well together. Yet another unpopular task, and the material and quality problems in the company are not getting any better. At least Edith is not venting her anger alone. Party secretary Vroni herself complains about the frequent changes at the top. In the short time since the new Wittstock Obertrikotagen plant was founded, she has already seen the third director. She wonders whether she will be reprimanded for this comment on camera. Waltraud Dietz is the manager of the plant where Edith Rupp works. She won't be leaving the company, the boss promises, but she will solve the problems. However, “right up to the management level, not everything is being put on the table.” Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the textile company's surroundings. Older gentlemen in a bar reveal that two factories here produced fabrics for the military during World War II. In 1945, only a handful of hand looms remained. The witness does not say why. It was probably too delicate to mention the reason on camera in 1978: the Soviet occupying power dismantled many production plants in the GDR after the war and transported them to the homeland of the victorious Red Army.