Allied troops advance in Germany during World War II. Map points France and Germany. American and British soldiers fire on the battlefield. Wrecked houses. Prisoners of war walk along with the soldiers. Soldiers on tanks. Smoke arises due to firing. Soldiers walk through rubble.
Nazi Germans start armament and intensify their preparations for war under leadership of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Interior view of the Nazi headquarters, destroyed by explosion of the anti-Hitler bomb plot in Germany, during World War II, known as the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler. Adolf Hitler at a railroad station awaits Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's train arrives; he descends and shakes hand with Adolf Hitler. The two leaders talk while other leaders stand by them. Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering with Schutzstaffe and Vice Minister Heinrich Himmler bid goodbye to Mussolini as he departs by train.
The Germans dig defensive positions on the eastern border of Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth, Reich Labor Service units and Baltic people dig defensive trenches on Germany's eastern border. View of Hitler youth lined up with shovels ready to fall out and dig. Hitler youth ride to the eastern front trench digging site on bicycles while holding shovels. At the trenches, men and women march carrying shovels and dig defensive positions. Mass hand digging effort underway by men and women and Hitler youth. Ground and aerial views of the trenches being dug. Wide aerial view of long line of jagged defensive trenches separating German held areas from the front with the Soviet Russian forces. English overlay narration describes difficult working conditions for the Baltic forced laborers, virtually slave labor, with poor working and living conditions.
U.S. Army soldiers of the 315th Regiment, 79th Division in Scheibenhardt, Germany, during World War 2. They walk in the Bienwald forest. Soldier removes German street marker "Adolf Hitler Strasse" from a building. Soldier with walkie-talkie. Patrol moves along road. Jeep with 'Adolf Hitler Strasse' sign on hood crosses a bridge. A sign board 'Entering Germany' on the side of the road. A group of soldiers sits in a circle. American soldier removes shoes and massages his feet. Soldiers around telephone. Soldier in foxhole cleans weapons.
U.S. infantrymen in Germany during World War II. Aerial view of road cut through forested area of Germany. Ground-level view of a battlefield through barbed wire. Artillery shell bursts in a field. Factories and smoke stacks in distance. A U.S. Sherman tank moves forward. U.S. infantrymen move and take cover among concrete antitank dragon's teeth of the German Siegfried Line. Views of the many antitank structures in the Siegfried Line.
View of launch test pad area at Peenemunde rocket testing facility, Germany. German A-4 ballistic missile being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War 2. A-4 missile also known as V-2 rocket on a launch pad. Missile is launched and leaves behind a fiery flare. A-4 Missile in flight.