Male and female dancers dressed in traditional costumes perform on the dance floor during Filmball attended by German film industry actor, actresses and executives. People applaud their performance. Couples in formal attire dance in the ballroom. View of dance floor crowded with couples dancing.
German Messerschmitt Bf 109 taxis past camera as formation of Dornier Do-17 bombers takes off. The bombers underway in formation. Complete change of scene shows German gun camera view of an American B-17 being shot to pieces in a head-on attack. A formation of USAAF B-17s being attacked by German fighters. One B-17, alone, in trouble, is fired upon while descending. View of German DO-17s in formation. German gun camera film of American B-17 being attacked from ahead and below. Pieces of the B-17 falling away
German notables and wealthy people gather upon arrival before the start of horse races at the Berlin-Grunewald race track. All fashionably dressed, men and women socialize. Several women converse with Kaiser Wilhelm II, who is in military uniform and Pickelhaube (pointed helmet). View of the racetrack, with spectators watching as horses race past. Closeup of photographers taking pictures as horses jump a barrier on the course. Change of scene shows a Zeppelin aloft and a large inflated airship being moved by a number of men, holding it down. Next, several racing cars are seen as they pass the camera, singly. Finally, carriages are seen with elegantly dressed occupants moving slowly past one another in a promenade at a park. Some of their horse-drawn carriages are bedecked in flowers. Other than ladies, the participants appear to be young military officers, including many lining the pathway on both sides.
Burning buildings in a German town during World War II. A burning German town at night. Fire burning at night. A burning building. A building engulfed in flames.
Film opens showing American soldiers riding in an open tracked personnel carrier, along a road in France, during World War 2. They pass a burning destroyed German tank at the roadside. A U.S. Army truck full of troops and a jeep follow the personnel carrier. Next dragon's teeth tank traps are seen in the snow. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer and a truck are parked near the dragon's teeth. A gunner atop the M10 fires his M2 Browning heavy machine gun. The M10 continues to move past the dragon's teeth. Infantry are seen accompanied by a whitewashed M4A3(76) Sherman tank. Other troops are settled into positions in the snow beside the narrow road. View from behind advancing troops. Explosions in a hillside as shells strike from an M4A3(105) firing rounds. White smoke rising from phosphorous shells fired into a German village. An M4A3(76) tank firing rounds in the village. Sherman medium tanks moving through rubble and then on a town street. Two M4A3(75) tanks parked side-by-side in the town. Tank commander in one points down the street, as hatch in the nearest one begins to open. U.S. infantry moving through the town accompanied by these tanks. Armored infantry hunker down behind a tank as it passes a church building. Some soldiers scamper down a hill toward village wooden buildings. Two are seen escorting a German prisoner, who collapses and has to be helped to his feet. Three other U.S. soldiers are approached by a surrendering German soldier with his hands in the air. Next American soldiers are seen taking several surrendering German soldiers into custody.
Adolf Hitler speaking passionately at an outdoor Nazi Rally. Massed flags fill the background. Next Hitler speaks at an indoor auditorium. He concludes with a Nazi salute. View of Swastika flag flying furiously in a brisk breeze. It continues to be seen as background to several slates announcing passage in the Reichstag of laws for the protection of purity of Aryan German blood and German honor, including prohibition on Jews marrying outside their race, division of Germans into 'Citizens' and 'Members' with Jews as members only, and prohibition on Jews flying the German flag.
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