Allied forces entering Germany during World War 2. The German population is not welcoming. Rainy weather makes it difficult for armor and vehicles to move. U.S. soldier bailing water out of his trench. Troops slogging through mud with their mess kits. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting U.S. infantry at the front in the mud.
Medical Corpsmen carry a wounded U.S. soldier on a stretcher across snow covered battlefield, in World War 2. U.S. infantry firing small arms at German enemy on snow covered battlefield.They run across the field and occasionally take cover, lying down in the snow with close-up views of soldiers firing from prone position. U.S. troops on the march single file and running along path in woods in fog and snow. Troops in winter clothing, with snow encrusted, suffer wind and snow as they try to clear roadway using shovels. A tractor with a snow blade sits nearby. Snow covered U.S. troops enter a town. U.S. artillerymen fire 240mm howitzer and 155mm long tom gun, under camouflage nettings. Troops moving single file up a mountain roadway. M4 high speed tractors pulling 155mm guns along a snow covered road, shrinking Nazi progress in the Battle of the Bulge. Troops ride a tank through snow. Some soldiers wear white camouflage coveralls. Two U.S. soldiers ride in jeep over rainy muddy road with snow on roadside. "Ogden, Utah" painted on bottom of windshield. U.S. troops wade through mud and water. German prisoners of war being marched single file through a woods. Jeeps and an ambulance mired down in mud. Formation of U.S. C-47 aircraft flying low and air dropping ammunition and supplies to American forces on the ground. Soldiers rush to an air dropped bundle and distribute its contents.German prisoners of war march along a path. Four carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Temporary U.S. field cemetery with white wooden crosses. A temporary field cemetery with German crosses. Group of U.S. soldiers reading letters from home, and then looking up as a group to watch a formation of B-17 bombers leaving contrails at high altitude overhead. View from a B-17 as bombs explode on target below. Views from U.S. fighters strafing and firing rockets at German ground targets.View from bomber of incendiary bombs creating fires at night in Germany. A B-24 Liberator bomber seen from the ground, as it flies through smoke and flak.
Engineers of Allied forces build pontoon bridge for soldiers during World War 2 in Germany. Soldiers of Allied forces outside an entrance talk and smile. A soldier smokes. Soldiers sit in fox holes. Firing at night. Guns fire in day time. A gun releases smoke. Soldiers advance. Soldiers carry a boat on shoulders. Soldiers cross river on boats. Soldiers move wounded on litters. Engineers lay a bridge over the Ruhr river near Julich. Soldiers pass over it. A soldier smokes. Jeep moves on a road. Tanks in a field.
Seventy year old German author Wilhelm von Schultz at his country home in Germany. The author takes a walk in his garden. He plays with his dog. Photographs on the wall by a staircase inside the house. Schultz in his library. He takes a book and sits down by a lamp to read it. He takes notes on a pad while reading. Four German sisters work at a lumber mill to support their father. A woman arrives to deliver a letter from their father. The women use circular saw in the mill to cut lumber. They place the board on a cart and ride with them down a track. They stack lumber to season it. . The sisters roll logs. German female cadets train on horseback. They ride and perform jumps. An officer leads the cadets out into a field. They gallop up and down hill.
Albert Speer, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany, visits a war plant during World War 2. He is seen surrounded by workers in the factory, as he speaks to them, expressing appreciation for their wartime efforts. Closeups of the workers as Speer speaks. Plant workers surround him and converse with him. Afterwards, He makes his way through the crowd of workers and waves goodbye. .
German workers at factories in Germany during World War 2, producing munitions and airplanes. The workers at work in the factory. Completed munitions shells and assembly of airplanes in progress. Men and women workers eat in the plant cafeteria during a break.