Crowd assembled in a German town. Returning German soldiers march through a town gate. Soldiers stand near an armored vehicle, possibly an early model Ehrhardt armoured car. German officer on horseback and soldiers in background. Brief segment of no image, then view of a civilian man and woman with child riding in a horse drawn wagon filled with their personal furniture belongings.
Einwohnerwehr or Freikorps (German Home Guard militia) marching and training, firing rifles, and climbing obstacles. Some militiamen wear white arm bands displaying Maltese Cross. Young officer salutes the marching guards as he stands next to a militiaman holding white flag with Maltese Cross on it. German soldiers, returning home from World War 1, parade down a city street, accompanied by a military band. Cavalry soldiers ride horses. They are surrounded by a marching crowd, so thick, it almost obscures them.
A Nazi film released before World War 2 examines hereditary diseases in German citizens, and the costs for caring for such patients. Mentally disabled and deranged adults and children are shown in German medical institutions. Mentally disabled patients are shown in a disparaging way. Close views of epileptic and schizophrenic cases. Various individual and family cases are shown attempting to focus on hereditary causes for the afflictions. Physically deformed patients. Statistics are shown on the cost to German society of supporting the mentally and physically handicapped German citizens. Sterilization and possible euthanasia suggested (later enacted as part of the Nazi program known as Aktion T4). End of clip shows NSDAP ideal scenes of healthy Aryan German young men working in a field, and group of happy young German children smiling.
A burned out German Ju-188 followed by several other destroyed aircraft, as filmed by American forces at the airfield, near the end of World War 2. Rear view of a Bf 110G-4/R3 and a side view of another Bf 110G with a damaged front half. Last aircraft is a He-111 bomber with a broken tail. Frankfurt-Rhein Main airfield.
German soldiers of the Feldhernhalle Division scramble onto a German submarine in a harbor. Soldiers shake hands with an officer aboard the submarine. A man pours tea into a cup for a soldier. The officer talks to the soldiers standing around him. A flag with the German Nazi Swastika on the submarine. (World War II period).
Film opens showing a number of German soldiers walking into an area of a steel fabricating factory, where workers are taking a lunch break, during World War 2. The visitors are being escorted by a civilian factory executive. Closeup of workers seated at a table eating their lunch. As the soldiers stand around the table, on of the workers greets and converses with them. Next, the visiting soldiers stand back as workers use cables to guide a hot steel part being moved by an overhead crane and chain hoist, into position in a heavy hydraulic press. Closeup of young German Army officers observing the process. Closeup of decorations on uniform of one officer that include the close combat Clasp (Nahkampfspange); Iron Cross; The General Assault Badge (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) and two other unidentified military badges. Visiting soldiers observe as steel workers maneuver the heavy hot steel ingot in the heavy press. Closeup of the hot steel ingot suspended on the chain hoist. Closeups of soldiers as they watch and some workers as they manipulate the heavy hot steel part. A German soldier distributes cigarettes to some of the steel workers.
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