People gather at an opera house in Germany. Dancers perform a high kick routine in the hall. People watch the show and applaud. Some are Nazi German soldiers in uniform. View of an acrobatic show with a floor show followed by a trapeze act entertaining an audience in Germany. Men play in an orchestra in a symphony hall or opera house. Conductor leads orchestra. View of various instrument sections up close, including trumpets. View from behind violin players as they read music and play. Woman model on a stage comes forward and stoops with a tin can to accept contributions in the annual Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes drive, for relief for needy people in Germany during the winter. Street scenes of youth carrying tins and accepting coin and money contributions from German citizens for the Winterhilfswerk fund drive. A small child adds a coin to the tin. A Nazi officer adds a coin. A group of men crowd around to put coins in the tin. People watch them. Brief montage scene of German armament in World War 2, including artillery being raised to fire, close-up view of tank tread as tank advances, German Navy ships underway in the ocean, low-flying German aircraft flying overhead in the sky including a Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor aircraft.
German men working in a munitions and war materiel factory in Nazi Germany during World War 2. Industrial steel melting operations. Metal being melted and molded in the factory. Artillery and gun barrels being manufactured. Metal ingots in process in the factory. Close up views of workers watching the whole process and working. Manufacturing of ordnance shells in the factory. The metal ingots inserted into a container and manufacture of shells takes place.
A loose formation of German Junkers Ju 87 aircraft (Stuka dive bombers) take off from a rugged field and camera tracks them as they fly overhead in World War 2.. Several Dornier DO 17 bombers are seen flying at low altitude with landing gears extended in vicinity of an airport. View from cockpit aft at the pontoon on a German Navy Heinkel He 59 float plane creating a wake in water during takeoff. Another He 59 float plane is taking off in the background. Brief view from overflying aircraft of a German torpedo boat racing in water below. Several Heinkel He 59 float planes in an extremely tight formation in flight. The pilot of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E climbs into its cockpit and prepares to depart. The side of his aircraft depicts a "weeping crow with umbrella," the logo of I Gruppe of the Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader fighter wing. Next, several Me Bf 109s are seen taking off from an airfield. View from the side, followed by view of them heading straight toward the camera, and raising their landing gears as they pass overhead. A church building is seen in the background. Several Heinkel 111 bombers are silhouetted as they take off from and airfield. Aerial view from above of Dornier 217 bombers flying over agricultural region of farms. View of crew member in nose of a Dornier 217 flying in formation with others. The pilot at the aircraft's controls. View from cockpit of other aircraft in the formation. Camera focuses again on the pilot at the controls, and other aircraft in the formation.
A flight of German Me-109 fighter aircraft in loose formation over Poland. Views of pilots in cockpits of German He-111 bombers in flight. Polish antiaircraft guns fire at the bombers. Smoke from FLAK seen around the aircraft. German bombardier inside an He-111 makes ready and bombers begin to drop their bombs on the city below. Exploding bombs are seen from the bomber. The mission is completed and German bombers head home. German Me-109 fighters fly past the bombers. Aerial views of the railroads destroyed by German bombing. (World War II period).
Opening shows a German language poster promoting a May 4, 1940 Grosse Mei-Feier and military concert sponsored by the German American Companies of Brooklyn New York City, to be held in Schwaben Hall at Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. Next is opening credits for German film "Mettaldes Himmels" (Metals from Heaven), made in 1936. Animation shows the night view of the sky in Germany. Moon and stars in the sky. Meteors shoot. One impacts the earth and explodes. A crater on the earth's surface. Blacksmith of middle age pounds piece of glowing metal into a sword. A water wheel in a hut. Men work. They hammer metal in glowing hot fires. Rapid montage of scenes of war armament production and application of metals in war materiel. Rifles and artillery on a World War I era battlefield. World War 1 German tank on the battlefield. Military biplane aircraft fly in the sky. Naval ships fire guns and bombard targets. A German naval torpedo running near surface of water. Smoke arises due to firing.
Smoke comes out of a war material factory in Germany where large gun and artillery barrels are manufactured during rearmament of Germany before World War 2. Smoke from chimneys in the factory. View elsewhere of miners digging for iron ore in mines and raw material for steel being mined with pneumatic hammers. Men work inside the steel mill processing raw iron ore. Molten metal runs through ditches dug by workers. Smelting operations shown. Blast furnaces process molten metal. Metal is formed and pressed. Close ups of cams, pistons, wheels, shafts, rods, pulleys, and gears of armament manufacturing operations. Large steel gun barrel is formed, pressed, cut, and finished in war production factory.
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