Seventy year old German author Wilhelm von Schultz at his country home in Germany. The author takes a walk in his garden. He plays with his dog. Photographs on the wall by a staircase inside the house. Schultz in his library. He takes a book and sits down by a lamp to read it. He takes notes on a pad while reading. Four German sisters work at a lumber mill to support their father. A woman arrives to deliver a letter from their father. The women use circular saw in the mill to cut lumber. They place the board on a cart and ride with them down a track. They stack lumber to season it. . The sisters roll logs. German female cadets train on horseback. They ride and perform jumps. An officer leads the cadets out into a field. They gallop up and down hill.
An art exhibition in German occupied Prague, titled 'Ehret Die Arbeit' celebrating labor and work of all kinds. Trams in motion outside the venue. German officers and soldiers inside the building. Paintings and sculptures depicting and glorifying German soldiers and workers. Officers observe sculptures on a table. Women take a look at paintings. (World War II period).
German Propaganda Minister, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addresses a Nazi party gathering in Germany. Nazi party members and soldiers in a huge stadium. They give the Nazi salute. Nazi flags all around. Goebbels arrives and is led through the crowd by officers and soldiers. He acknowledges the crowd and takes his place on stage. Officers and soldiers seated on stage. Goebbels begins his speech. He talks about the Allied assault on Europe, V-1 bombs and their use against England. He praises Adolf Hitler and the German people. The people laugh and applaud during the address. (World War II period).
German soldiers prepare for battle with Russia on the Finnish Front. A map of the Finnish Front. Troops march, do construction work, and push carriages loaded with baggage. Soldiers cross a river in boats and on barges. They rest, sleep, and wave to soldiers on the river bank. Horses on a raft. Soldiers get off boats and barges at the bank. A Hitler Youth courier brushes and saddles a horse. He climbs over another boy to get onto the horse. A man gives him a courier for delivery, and the boy rides off. He greets his family at home. Soldiers in trenches keep a watch. A soldier sends a radio message. A few load and fire artillery on Russian targets. Black and white smoke from explosion in a field. (World War II period).
World War II Liberty Ships that carry war materiel like guns,tanks and planes, in the Marine Shipyard in Sausalito, California, across bay from Richmond California shipyards. View of Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land (retired), speaking about the need for ships, and more ships, for the war effort. Among Liberty ships shown are Billy Mitchell, George Chamberlain, Waslater, Cermak and Charles Summer. Ships with bow numbers 434, 432, and others lined up under construction. View of Senate bill 3500, Merchant Marine Act of 1936 authorizing merchant ship building to support commerce and National Defense. Marine architects and engineers work with blueprints and models to optimize design for fleet of merchantmen that would eventually be called "Liberty Ships." National Posters seen. One shows burly shipyard worker with sledge hammer and reads: "Swing it Brother." Another shows convoy of ships at sea and reads: "You Build ''em. We'll sail 'em." Construction begins. Timbers, plates, anchors , engines, steel blades, and other of the hundred thousand items needed build a ship. Crowds of Shipyard workers leaving after a work shift. A sign on building reads,'It can and will be done', and another, under which workers walk advertises war bonds . Shaping metal with gas torches. Fabricating ribs of steel. Spray painting. A woman welder named Mary Smith, welding with torch. Cutting steel using patterns and torches. Fabricating bulkheads. Riveting. Derricks lift heavy assemblies.
Building a Liberty Ship in California shipyards (Sausalito or Richmond) during World War II. Raising an 8-ton steel mast from which a ship's boom will extend for loading operations. The gantry crane operator seen in control cabin. A house of steel is built to sit on the deck of an attack transport ship. It is lifted with the help of crane and put into the ship. Several cranes are used to move a 100 ton, 4000 horsepower diesel engine into place in the ship's hold.
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