Bonn, complains one longtime German diplomat, is "not a capital but a form of capital punishment." A guidebook once described the foggy little university town (1946 pop. 94,694), the ...

Munich is easily the most exciting city in West Germany, largely because it is a young city. More than half of its 1,160,000 inhabitants are under 40, and 89% have yet to reach 65.

Newsreel visited the city, best known for being the birthplace of Beethoven, to see how work was progressing on turning it into the new capital as Germany was split between east and west post-WW2.