German Minister Albert Speer meets factory workers in Germany. Speer confer with workers and presents medal to some officials. Speer inspects the factory accompanied by workers and officials.1944.
German General presents "Iron Cross" for bravery to German Antiaircraft crew members in Germany.One soldier marches forward from the formation. General bestows him with "Iron Cross and shakes his hands.Other soldiers salute General.Awarded soldier is congratulated by General and fellow crew members.1944. (World War II period).
Activities of American first Army in Germany, advancing eastward in late 1944 during World War 2. Animated map shows: 4th and 8th infantry division move out from Stolberg and enter into Hurtgen Forest . U.S. 4th Infantry attack with field guns and artillery. Field gun amidst pile of shells fires toward Hurtgen Forest. 4th Infantry Division troops crawl up a hill in the Hurtgen Forest, sometimes pinned down under enemy German fire. Armor comes to their aid and casualties are treated by medical corps personnel. U.S. Army tanks arrive to support the infantry and they continue forward, where footage shows U.S. mortars and artillery bombing Grosshau, and point of view shot of a U.S. Army machine gun firing at a target in the town of Grosshau. Animated map shows: 5th and 8th Inf. Divisions enter into Kleinhau. Kleinhau is bombarded by a heavy volley of U.S. Army rockets and artillery from units of the 5th and 8th Infantry Divisions. Allied fighter bombers in flight over the area. Artillery is loaded and fired at close-range on target of Kleinhau which was then captured. U.S. Army Soldiers around the ruined buildings of Hurtgen, eating and drinking during a break. Infantry division move towards another towns. U.S. Army soldiers take a moment to relax during the long drive eastward. U.S. soldiers fire mortars from positions along the west bank of the Ruhr.
Conferences after Hitler's Escape from Bombing Plot on 20 July 1944. Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini arrives by train at Fuhrer Headquarters (FHQ). German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler greets him with a left-handed handshake. Nazi Party member Hermann Goering also present. At Hitler's Wolf's Lair compound near Rastenburg, East Prussia, Nazi leaders greet the Fuhrer to congratulate him on surviving the attack, including Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop, head of the Party Chancellery Martin Bormann, German Reich Minister of the Interior Heinrich Himmler, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein, Member of the Nazi party Hermann Goering. Lined up to greet Hitler and show loyalty are Saukel, German Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer, Dr. Sauer, Head of the Reich Chancellery Hans Lammers, Himmler, Goering, Joseph Goebbels.
American 8th Air Force fighter operations in Germany on Christmas Day, 1944, during World War II. Gun camera footage from a P-51 of the 359th Fighter Squadron, 456th Fighter Group, flown by Lieutenant Troge shows a German Fw 190 being shot down. German pilot bails out of the Fw 190. View of the parachute descending.
Film opens with a map showing the Ardennes forest with cities Aachen, Maastricht, Eschweiler in the north and Saarburg and Strassburg to the south. (Elements of the American VII Corps have penetrated the Siegfried line (West Wall) in the vicinity of Roetgen, Germany, in September, 1944, when this film depicts German defense responses, from their perspective. Numerous German rockets are seen speeding through the black night sky. In daylight, German gunners fire large artillery pieces as well as more rockets (Nebelwerfer) which also can be heard as the streak past. German gunners firing a 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 or sFH 18 heavy howitzer. Shells exploding in the distance. Closeup of German soldiers observing the shells exploding. American soldiers being taken as prisoners of war, march past dragons teeth of the Siegfried line. German Panzer tanks rolling along a road as Allied prisoners march the opposite way, under guard, with their hands over their heads. German troops slogging along a muddy road. Some carry panzerfaust anti-tank weapons. One carries an MG-42 machine gun. Bodies of dead U.S. Army soldiers on the ground. German tanks maneuvering and firing their guns. German soldiers in a village engaged in house-to-house combat with American soldiers.