Damage and ruin caused by an attempt on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's life in Germany during World War II. Ruins and debris of the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall where a bomb had exploded minutes after Adolf Hitler spoke in the hall at a Nazi party meeting. The debris is inspected. Victims on hospital beds. A victim of the bombing is interviewed in his hospital bed and he expresses relief that Hitler was safe. A German crowd in Munich pays homage to the dead. The crowd salutes flag-draped caskets of the eight killed in the blast. German troops lined up. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler salutes the flag-draped caskets and lays a wreath. Hitler meets family members of the dead. The caskets are carried along a street by the troops during funeral ceremonies. One of the wreaths bears a ribbon with wording "Adolf Hitler". A German crowd salutes the funeral procession.
German diplomat Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg, of Nazi Germany, and Vyacheslav Molotov, of the Soviet Union meet together in Moscow, Russia, to sign the German-Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement. View of the two men and other representatives from each country at the signing ceremony. Narrator indicates that the agreement document covers expanded trade and commerce between the countries, establishes the northern border, and covers repatriation of Germans from republics including Lithuania and Estonia. View of the German and Soviet leaders each signing the document. Wax seals are added and a close-up of the signature page of the agreement is shown. (The Agreement also included the third set of secret protocols of the Hitler-Stalin Act or German-Soviet Treaty of Nonaggression. It followed the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty, which was the second secret protocol. Despite the pact, Germany attacked the Soviet Union 6 months later.) (World War II period).
German boxer Max Schmeling in Germany during World War II. Max Schmeling packs a parachute and is being trained as paratrooper. Interiors of a German transport airplane show Max Schmeling preparing for a jump, standing at the doorway and jumping down. Paratroopers jump from three transport airplanes. The paratroopers descend. Max Schmeling lands and removes his parachute.
Allied officials receive a surrender from a German officer in Berlin, Germany towards the end of World War II in Europe. A Soviet officer reviews Red Army troops parading at an airport after the Soviet capture of Berlin. Exteriors of a headquarters in Berlin. Soviet Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, British Air Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. General Carl Spaatz receive surrender from German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
Opening scenes are of ruins in Berlin, Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. Damaged Brandenburg Gate and ruined buildings of Berlin. Damaged building of Adlon Hotel. Allied troops move forward in Germany to complete the Allied occupation of Germany. A truck loaded with Allied troops heads towards Berchtesgaden. Smoke rises from the Berghof, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's mountain residence (Narrator refers to it as the Eagle's Nest, which is not correct. The Eagle's Nest or Kehlsteinhaus was not bombed and is not shown in this clip). Ruins and damaged buildings in Munich including exterior building facade, and arched stair entrance to festhall, marked with painted lettering by American soldiers, "157th infantry, 45th Division." Interior views of the Hofbräuhaus München beer hall (Hofbräuhaus am Platzl), including interior views of ruins inside its drinking room (trinkstube) with shattered windows and broken furniture. (Narrator refers to this as "the famous beer hall." At least two noteworthy NASDAP formative events occurred there: On February 25, 1920, Hitler presented the Nazi Party Twenty Five Point Program there. On November 4, 1921 the National Socialist party held a large public meeting at the Hofbräuhaus and fighting and protesting broke out after Hitler spoke. The Sturmabteilungen, or "SA", then in its infancy, attacked and ejected protestors.)
German officials surrender in Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. Nazi Marshall Herman Goring surrenders in Bavaria, Germany where he is questioned by Allied newspaper men. German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring surrenders. German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt arrives in a car to surrender. Former Governor General of Occupied Poland Hans Frank is captured by the Allies. Captured German officials are taken away in U.S. Army jeeps. Former Regent of Hungary Admiral Miklos Horthy speaks to a U.S. official after his capture. Captured Nazi officials lined up.
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