Mobilization of Hitler Youth in Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth boys work to gather crops. A Hitler Youth member handles horse drawn reapers . Both boys and girls of Hitler Youth work and gather stacks of hay. The bundle of stalks being loaded onto a bullock cart. Total mobilization shows : German newspaper. Newspaper on a street for display. People read a newspaper. Theaters, cabarets and night clubs closed for the duration. Women being interviewed for work in war munitions plants, as German war labor recruitment extends into groups formerly excluded to due old age or health reasons. A munitions factory instructor teaches women war production workers their new jobs. Women at work in a factory.
Italian internees in Germany. A Italian officer on a podium. He gives speech and says that internees are free to take civil employment and are given choice to join auxiliary forces or to work in factory. The Italian internees cheer and being released from a German prison. (World War II period).
Germans forces fight fiercely to hold the line against Soviet forces near Riga, Latvia in World War Two. A map of Baltic States. German infantry advance behind Panther tanks past abandoned equipment. A German Panther commander wearing headphones. Guns and artillery being fired. An enemy plane being destroyed by antiaircraft fire. A Soviet T34-85 tank destroyed by pointblank fire from a German tank. German Pz.III Beobachten, Panther and Tiger tanks advance. Ppanzerfaust, recoilless anti tank weapons and mobile machine guns in action. German Pz.IV tank fires. Soviet positions on Latvian coast being bombarded by German naval forces. Smoke rises due to explosion. A soldier on a tank looks through binoculars. German infantrymen ride on advancing Geman StuG III mobile assault guns. German armored cars fire on a village. A village in flames. Soviet tanks in flames. A soldier smokes a cigarette. Panther tank driver.
Germans retake Kaunas, Lithuania. A Nazi flag being raised on a building and war heroes being decorated. A German officer pins up medal on the uniform of the soldiers. The German troops stand in a squad and being decorated. The soldiers smile.
Shovels handling ceremony in Holland. Newly recruited Dutch workers stand in a formation during a ceremony. They receive shovels as symbols of their commitment to work for Holland. The uniformed Dutch workers shoulder their shovels and parade.
A Slav festival in Serbia. People climb stairs to enter a Greek Catholic Church, where a priest is seen waving a container of incense, as part of the ritual. (Narrator notes that the theme is protection of native cultures, including protection of religion.) The Priest slices a large piece of bread for the Mass. Next an accordion is seen and dancers assemble for the "Kolo" (a Serbian national dance). View of dancing, that marks end of the festival. Scene shifts abruptly to a sailboat race in Malaga, Spain. Narrator says it "suggests the idea of normal living with a prosperous new Europe." Film shifts to mountains of the high Tatras, in Czechoslovakia, where Ski troops of the Czech army demonstrate their abilities.
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