Konstantin Hierl, leader of the Reichs Arbeit Dienst (RAD), which is the German National Labor Service, is seen in RAD uniform, during World War 2. He watches as several young German women demonstrate how they operate an antiaircaft battery. Scene shifts to Konstantin Hierl decorating a member of the RAD. Snow is on the ground. Members of the Wehrmacht (Army) form an honor guard.
People build barricades and dig trenches for defense of Berlin in Germany, during World War 2. Men build barricades for defense of Berlin against advancing Soviet forces. Women carries goods on wheel carts to help in building barricades. Man smokes cigar. They build tank traps. They dig a trench in the field.
View of a German U-boat with a snorkel to its periscope, laying on its deck, during World War 2. The crew actuates control that raises the snorkel to periscope height above the conning tower. Views of U-boat submerging and of the snorkel plowing through the water ahead of the boat's periscope. Below, in the control room, the Captain looks through his periscope and sees several ships ahead. Closeup of one ship dead ahead. U-boat crewman adjusts fire control equipment. View of the snorkel moving through the water. A torpedo strikes the target ship and sinks it. The U-boat submerges.
German soldiers fight in and around the ruins of Aachen in Germany during World War 2. A map shows places. Soldiers on an Sdkfz.250 Neue halftrack arrive on the war front armed with Panzerfaust recoilless antitank weapon and Assault Rifle. Wrecked buildings and houses near battle area. Soldiers walk on the field. They walk in the trench and fire a mortar (several running out of the trench before it goes off). Numerous close-up views of faces of German soldiers as they talk, move, or fire weapons at Allied forces.
Map of Germany and Poland, with major cities marked. A German SdKfz 251 half-track armored personnel carrier (APC) enters a town in Germany, during World War 2. It is carrying about a dozen war-weary German soldiers that the narrator says just came from Budapest. They step down from the APC in front of a building displaying a sign identifying it as a refreshment hall for fighters back from Budapest, complements of the Waffen-SS. They receive hot cups of coffee (or some suitable refreshment). One soldier sits on a rock, eating a hot meal, in front of a sign telling vehicles to halt and report here. The weary fighters are mostly unshaven and a number have minor wounds covered by bandages. One has an eye patch. They converse and appear glad to get a rest. They board a bus. Others ride away in the back of an open truck. The road appears wet and icy. A large body of water is seen in the background.
Germany defending against Soviet offensives along the Oder River in in Silesia, during World War 2. German infantry slogging through mud, past sign pointing back 6 Km to Ratibor,Germany, (present-day Racibórz, Poland) during World War 2. They are proceeding to reinforce defenses at Breslau. They carry many panzerfaust antitank weapons. Scene shifts to German officers conversing with General Hermann Niehoff, Commander of Breslau defenses. German gunners firing a Heavy 21 cm Mörser 18 gun at near-zero elevation. (General Niehoff holds his ears as it fires.) Shell explodes with large fireball in distance. Niehoff speaks with a smiling German officer and pats him on the shoulder, at an informal award ceremony on a street in outlying area of Breslau. German soldiers riding atop an Auto Union Kätzchen (armored personnel carrier) .It is towing a conveyance in which two soldiers ride.
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