Two Truckloads of Prussian soldiers drive into the Rhineland city of Koblenz to reinforce it during World War 1. They park near a shuttered Merchant hall and climb down to the street. They assemble and pose for the camera standing around a machine gun set up on the pavement. Scene shifts to view of an old fort partially destroyed.
Emaciated prisoners of the Nordhausen concentration camp are carried out of the prison. They are taken to ambulances by U.S. medics and Military Police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. The ambulances carrying victims leave prison area. (World War II period).
Snow-covered hills at Berchtesgaden. Inside a building, Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union) with his General staff. Among others present are, General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; Colonel General Franz Halder and Colonel General Ludwig Beck. Animated map shows planned offensive against the Soviet Union and thence through the Caucauses and into Mideast oil fields. Further grand schemes are illustrated. Ocean supply lines needing to be choked off at Murmansk, Russia, and in the Mediterranean are diagrammed. German U-boat bases are shown on the map. View of a U-boat displaying skull and cross bones on conning tower. U-boat reinforced concrete pens. Map showing U-boat missions.
At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.
Animated drawings of German V-2 rocket during World War 2. Drawing describes various parts of the rocket. German drawing focuses on warhead, fuel section and motor part of the missile. Animated graph shows various frequencies and height during missile launch.
The airship LZ13 "Hansa," in July 1912, being backed out of her hangar in Hamburg and readied for flight by ground crews . Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin seen with an officer of the crew, in the passenger compartment (called the "Coupé") of the LZ-13. View of the crowds below waving to the Count. A separate sequence, from June , 1909, shows the damaged airship, LZ 5, after she hit a pear tree near Göppingen, on the return leg of a flight from Lake Constance (Bodensee) to Bitterfeld and back.
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