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Rocket development leading to test of 250-Kg-thrust prototype rocket in Magdeburg, Germany
Third test of an Achenstaber rocket by Klaus Riedel, and associates. View of another test stand structure, inside a small metal building. The test stand erected outside the building, next to a steep hill, where a group of people are assembled to witness the test rocket firing. Interior view of the operating station, with liquid oxygen and another pressure tank seen along with pressure gauges. A dynamometer for measuring the rocket thrust. The smallest and largest combustion chambers. Model of the Pilot Rocket having 750 Kg thrust, the starting point for a manned rocket. A man poses with the prototype rocket motor. A precursor for the Pilot Rocket, with thrust of 250 Kg is seen laid out horizontally on a stand and then in a launch test stand. Closeup on the test stand. A crew loading the precursor Pilot Rocket and a pre-fabricated test stand, onto a truck for transport to a site in Magdeburg, Germany. The crew setting the test stand and 250-Kg-thrust rocket in place at Magdeburg. Fueling the rocket with liquid oxygen. Condensate fumes rising. Test firing of the rocket motor while fastened to the test stand. The rocket burns smoothly, as seen from afar. Next is the first test firing of a large liquid-fueled rocket, on June 29, 1933, at Magdeburg. A large crowd of spectators gathered around the rocket and stand, as technicians do final refueling. Rudolf Nebel explaining the rocket to members of press and officials. Nebel giving signal to fire the rocket engine. View of fire streaming from the 250-Kg-thrust rocket on the stand as it slowly rises and heads horizontally, to impact the ground about 50 yards away.
German Generalleutnant Dittmar formally surrenders to U.S. soldiers in Magdeburg, Germany during World War II.
German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)
United States military officers inspect a destroyed Junkers engine factory near Strasbourg (WW2)
Wreckage of a Junkers engine factory near Strasbourg after Allied bombardment. United States military officers inspect the destroyed depot, formerly a Ford plant before World War II. A soldier opens a small door on a concrete guard post and inspects inside. A metal box labeled in German “JUNKERS FLUGZEUG-UND-MOTORENWERKE A.G. MOTORENBAU ZWEIGWERK- MAGDEBURG STATION MAGDEBURG NEUSTADT”. A soldier inspects German engines. Abandoned engine stands with mounted engine blocks and pile of engine manifolds at the Junkers factory. Debris cover the whole floor of destroyed factory. Crumbled steel structure of roof and walls are left.
U.S. Maj. Gen. Leland Hobbs with a Russian General in front of U.S. 30th Division, XIX Corps Headquarters in Magdeburg, Germany.
U.S. and Russian Generals at U.S. 30th Division, XIX Corps Headquarters in Magdeburg, Germany during World War II. The Generals inspect Color Guards of U.S. 30th Division. A convoy of army jeeps with the Generals arrives at the headquarters. A group of soldiers marches. The Generals inspect the Color Guard. Major General Leland Hobbs talks to a Russian General.
Magdeburg is destroyed by dive bombers of the U.S. Tactical Air Forces and U.S. troops parade in Germany (WW2)
Germany in ruins after the end of World War II. Aerial views of skeleton buildings and rubble in Leipzig. Industrial Magdeburg is destroyed by dive bombers of the U.S. Tactical Air Forces. The huge Krupp tank factory is destroyed. Partially finished tanks on an assembly line. The stone swastika is replaced with stars and stripes. U.S. troops ( Yank troops ) blast a surrounding stone swastika. A huge rallying stadium serves as a parade ground for the yank troops.
The Soviet Army suppresses uprising of 1953 in East Berlin and other cities in East Germany
The Soviet Army suppresses uprisings in East Germany during worker strike and civilian protest of 1953. Demonstrators haul down a red flag atop the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin. Crowds at Potsdamer Platz disperse as gunfire breaks out. A wounded demonstrator is assisted by comrades during the protest. Soviet tanks rumble through the streets. Martial law is declared and orders of the Military High Command are posted in East Berlin. Demonstrators throw rocks at Soviet tanks on the street. Soviet tanks and troops block demonstrators. A map shows East German cities with uprisings: Dresden, Magdeburg, Frankfurt, Schwerin, Leipzig, Rostock, Erfurt, Chemnitz, and others. A poster dated 18 June, 1953 announces the execution of Willy Goettling as a leader of the uprising. A newspaper announcement reports the condemnation of Alfred Diener, of the city of Jena, as a provocateur. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany, presides over a public funeral for Germans who lost their lives in the Soviet suppression of East Berlin. Leaders of East Germany are seen and East German proceedings against alleged ringleaders of the uprisings. East German refugees fill a large open building. They carry belongings and sleep on the floor.
