In accordance with secret orders for the Military Technical Institute at Peenemunde, development of the A-4 guided missile (V-2) was undertaken in 1942. Entrance to the large assembly hanger building. Large doors slide open showing German missile on a stand. A-4 is moved to firing position by a large crane. Two German scientists work on the steering section of A-4. Technicians work on the uncovered fuel section of A-4 missile. Live static firing of the missile rocket engine while it is constrained vertically in a stand. Intense fire and smoke. (World War II period).
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).
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.
Hitler and Hermann Goering with representatives of France, Britain and Italy, on September 29, 1938. Hitler and Goering in meeting with Benito Mussolini on occasion of Munich Conference. Hitler and Mussolini converse. Civilians gather on the street outside the Metropol Hotel in Munich. Benito Mussolini, of Italy, seen signing the pact, along with Édouard Daladier of France. Hitler shakes hands with Daladier after the signing. The group around Hitler includes Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Mussolini's son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano.
B-24 aircraft in formation over German target. Sky filled with Flak bursts. Recreated views show aircrew on oxygen at altitude in their respective crew stations inside a B-24. Some scenes, showing gunners firing at a German fighter aircraft, are actually filmed from inside a B-17 (and show B-17 empennage, as viewed from waist gunner position, looking aft). While under attack, one German pilot drops his landing gear to slow down and bails out. Bombs dropping from aircraft and exploding on the German factory at Gotha. Narrator notes that the U.S 392nd and 445th Bomb Groups were decorated for this successful raid. (World War II period).
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