As film opens, German troops invading Hungary in World War 2, are seen informally gathering as two Sturmgeschütz III (Stug III) assault guns pass them along a dirt road in Hungary. German Officer lying in grass looks through binoculars. View of a Sturmgeschütz IV (Stug IV) assault gun with side protectors moving past a towed piece of field artillery. German infantry walking across a field as two Stug IVs pass them. German officers pointing at possible targets. Crew member standing in Marder II (Sd.Kfz.131) anti-tank gun as it fires its gun in the direction of a fire burning in the distance down the street. A soldier peers through binoculars. A vehicle is seen in flames. A German soldier hunkers down next to a wall. A destroyed truck in the background. A dead Hungarian soldier lying in a ditch. A burning truck on the street next to him. German soldiers move a Hungarian soldier hiding among the dead, who turns and holds his hand up. German infantry behind Stug and walking through garden gates and fences in back yards of homes, and along muddy road. German soldier waves his hand through top access hatch. German infantry soldiers fire rifles and German armored vehicles fire their guns.
Members of the Holiness snake handler movement gathered. Religious preacher lifts rattle snake above his head. People play music and clap. Man begins to preach, speaking about the baptism of Jesus. Woman and girl dance with eyes closed in a trance. (Possibly a fundamentalist, charismatic, or Pentecostal gathering.)
A German battleship sinks a British steamer in the South Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. German battleship commander and sailors use binoculars to view ocean. Sailors pulling down flags. Ship commander on a boat being lowered to the ocean. Kriegsmarine battleship firing at the British steamer. Sailors pulling rope. German Kriegsmarine on a boat. British ship listing as it sinks. German navy men return to ship with booty. Sailors load cargo from the British ship. German battleship captain observes the sinking of British ship with binoculars. More sailors return with captured cargo. German battleship fires at British ship until it sinks. Prisoners-of-war captured from the British steamer, consisting of Australian, Asian and African sailors.
German soldiers walk through snow on the German Border with Switzerland during World War 2. A sign identifies the border. German troops in steel helmets and carrying weapons, trudge through snow near a village. Troops use flame throwers to set a house afire. Closeup of a German soldier in profile. German soldiers set up wiring to remotely detonate demolition charges. Soldiers run from a building. Demolition charges explode on both sides of a road causing trees to fall across the road, blocking any Allied forces that may attempt to pursue retreating German forces. Demolition charges destroy a row of buildings. An explosion in woods near a tall smoke stack. Soldiers preparing a remote detonating device. A charge explodes destroying the smoke stack. More explosions in woods and a block of houses being destroyed.
King Hussein of Jordan descending stairs from his Royal Jordanian Airline jet passenger aircraft at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. He greets and kisses Iraq President Saddam Hussein who is waiting on the tarmac. King Hussein and Saddam Hussein review Iraqi Republican Guard troops and are greeted by other Iraqi officials, including Tariq Aziz, before entering a waiting Cadillac limousine and driving off. (Iran-Iraq war period).
Film begins with a map of the South Eastern part of Europe, including countries of Hungary,Croatia,Serbia, and Romania. Then a German Air Force officer is seen dispatching aircraft to attack Soviet tanks on the Eastern front. Next are views from a cockpit of German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka dive bombers) in flight. Closeup of a Stuka airplane inflight. It is equipped with a machine guns under its wings. More views from a cockpit of smoke rising from the ground, and then of Ju 87s strafing Soviet tanks. Narrator states that more than 300 Soviet tanks were destroyed. Scene changes to German soldier in a defensive position in Hungary, during the German invasion of that country in March, 1944 (Operation Margarethe). View of explosions in the distance. Brief closeup of a German soldier. German infantry leaving their defensive positions and advancing along a hill crest where they are silhouetted against the light sky. Artillery firing from hidden position near trees. Several scenes of burning buildings. German gun crew holding their ears as they fire a heavy artillery piece. A burning tank.
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