Views from inside German Messerschmitt Bf-110 heavy fighters as they fly and attack Allied ground targets with rockets and cannon fire. German ME-109 fighter in flight. Allied aircraft shot down in flames, seen from distance on the ground. A parachute is seen above one. German antiaircraft guns seen. (World War II period).
Weltraum Schiff I Startet Eine Technische Fantasie. 1937 German science fiction film. View of a motion picture camera man filming a fictional launch of a spacecraft. Cameraman and narrator on elevated platform televising space crew as they proceed to huge hangar in which their spacecraft is housed. Large audience watching the event in real-time on screen at a theater. Door of hangar slowly drops down revealing the spacecraft. Project director and reporters go to balcony to watch the event. Audience applauding as the spacecraft begins to move from hangar. A large launch ramp and the moon are visible against night sky. The Crew Commander holds telecast interview from within the spacecraft.
Large crowds of spectators watch a parade through streets of a German City, on a pleasant summer day. Citizens in old-fashioned traditional costumes carry bicolor flags. View of parade below from window of high building.Marchers fill street and spectators fill sidewalks. Many kinds of flags are carried and flown from buildings bordering the street. Prussian Officers stand in a group. Men in business suits, with armbands, parade carrying flags similar to German Naval Ensigns, but with dark field. Prussian officers ride through town in open car.
Scenes of the August 2nd, 1943 Operation Tidal Wave low-level bombing raid on Ploiesti or Ploesti oil facilities, in Romania, by U.S. Air Force B-24s. B-17s dropping bombs. B-17s escorted by P-47 fighters. War plants in the U.S. building B-29 bombers. U.S. B-17s over Europe, escorted by P-38 Lightning fighters. Allied air superiority established over Europe.
United States M-24 Light Tank of the U.S. 9th Army fires at a target. Soldiers aboard tank. Narrator describes the M-24 to help distinguish it in appearance from German tanks, during World War 2. The torsion bar suspension of M-24 Light Tank and its 16 inch wide tracks. The 75 mm gun barrel of the tank. Side by side shot of M5A1 and the M-24 replacing it. Comparing ammunition placed on ground. Recognition features of M-24.
Film 'Why We Fight' provides historical perspective on Adolf Hitler's plan of world conquest. Image of Otto von Bismark and year 1863 is seen with quote,"We will dominate the whole world." Year 1914 and image of Kaiser Wilhelm II and quote,"God has made us for civilizing the world. Woe and death to all who resist my will." Year 1933 and image of Adolf Hitler and quote: My motto is,'Destroy by all and any means. National Socialism will reshape the world'." German eagle monument with swastika. Troops in precise large formation during Totenehrung (honoring of the dead) at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally as Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Viktor Lutze walk forward during the ceremony. Buglers blow and troops march at another Nazi rally. Images of military graves in a cemetery. Images of British soldiers blinded by gas attacks in World war I. Bodies of persons dead from diseases due to war. Fleeting images of destruction and grief from war, including hanged persons. Hitler at a podium flanked by Himmler. Closeups of Hitler. The buglers previously shown are seen again.Hitler standing with Viktor Lutze and Rudolf Hess. Brief images of Mongols marching and riding horses, with image of Genghis Khan. Map showing Mongolian 13th Century conquests in Asia and Eastern Europe. German Institute of Geopolitics in Munich, founded by Karl Ernst Haushofer. Closeup of Haushofer with backdrop of world map. Clerks in the institute cataloging information. German soldiers entering and studying in the institute. Brief images of economic wealth of the world, roughnecks setting pipe at an oil well, a "forest" of oil well derricks, harvested trees, steam shovels at an open pit mine, ore on a conveyer, cattle, farmers harvesting grain, flocks of sheep, and human labor. Animated map showing distribution of land area in the world and comparing Hitler's plan of conquest to that of Gengis Khan.
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