German notables and wealthy people gather upon arrival before the start of horse races at the Berlin-Grunewald race track. All fashionably dressed, men and women socialize. Several women converse with Kaiser Wilhelm II, who is in military uniform and Pickelhaube (pointed helmet). View of the racetrack, with spectators watching as horses race past. Closeup of photographers taking pictures as horses jump a barrier on the course. Change of scene shows a Zeppelin aloft and a large inflated airship being moved by a number of men, holding it down. Next, several racing cars are seen as they pass the camera, singly. Finally, carriages are seen with elegantly dressed occupants moving slowly past one another in a promenade at a park. Some of their horse-drawn carriages are bedecked in flowers. Other than ladies, the participants appear to be young military officers, including many lining the pathway on both sides.
German Air Force maintains sharp lookout on German-French border during World War II. German soldiers look through binoculars. German aircraft parked under camouflage. (A small dog stands by aircraft.). German gun crew rotates a camouflaged antiaircraft gun and elevates its barrel. Views of downed French aircraft in woods. Germans spraying water on the wreckage.
Humorous German animated cartoon about sledding. A sign identifies a sled run for adults only. Several groups of older persons go sledding on it. Then a boy on stilts and another boy sneak past the attendant, who thinks one is an adult. The boys are discovered and chased by the attendant. They fall into a snow bank. The boys stretch a rope across the sled run and upset some old folks who land in the snow. They repeat this trick several times, until they try it on the attendant who pulls them along with him and cuts their rope so they fly off into some trees, where the folks they tricked stand about and look at them.
A German officer hands bouquet of flowers to crewman on a Junkers Ju- 52 airplane displaying registration: D-2600 (Hitler's personal aircraft). German Chancellor Adolf Hitler boards the aircraft with German officers. Interior of aircraft displays flowers and other birthday decorations commemorating the birthday of the Sturmabteilung (SA). German officers and Hitler seated in the airplane. Closeup of Hitler's personal pilot, Johann "Hans" Peter Baur, in uniform of Colonel, Schutzstaffel (SS), wearing service cap displaying Totenkopf (death head) insignia. Views of ground as seen from the airplane in flight. View of passengers in the cabin. Hitler is quietly reading a book. view from cabin window of aircraft's left wing, displaying registration number. As part of the SA birthday celebrations, Hitler and German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Chief Hermann Goring inspect German Air Force aircraft and personnel at an airfield. Hitler greets many of the German officers and airmen. Hitler's airplane is next seen preparing for departure, with engines running, " Lufthansa, " Immelmann II " is painted on its side. It flies a Nazi flag. Military personnel load cargoes into the belly of the aircraft. An officer gives bouquet to another officer aboard the plane. Hitler and Goering complete their inspection of the Air unit. Closeups of Hitler and Goering mingling with the fliers and inspecting Heinkel He-51 bi-wing pursuit airplanes. Scene shifts to destination where Hitler talks to a small girl besides his car. The child holds a small bouquet of flowers for presentation to him. But when Hitler reaches for it, the child changes her mind and holds it back, refusing to give it to the Fuhrer.
German training or propaganda reel from World War II. German paratroopers being dropped from two Junkers Ju-52 three-engine transport aircraft. Their chutes open immediately and billow out. The chutes of the descending paratroops fill the sky.
Gun camera footage from USAAF P-47 of the 378th Fighter Squadron, 362nd Fighter Group, operating from Verdun Airfield, France, during World War 2. The aircraft flown by pilot named Bullock, on March 31, 1945, strafes lines of communication, striking vehicles on roads and trains moving on rail lines. In second sequence, the same pilot, now identified on slate, with the 377th Fighter Squadron, on April 4th, attacks a lone German Me-109 seen flying in thin cloud below him.
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