NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) REFORGER II (Return of Forces to Germany) Operations. Several vehicles cross mobile assault bridge in Germany. Hawk missile carriers and Chaparral missile carriers cross bridge. Camouflaged vehicles climb riverbank. Wooded area in the background.
A team of horses pulls a farmer's wagon across a road past U.S. 7th Army Patton tanks moving along a road during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" in Germany. A German woman looks out the window of her house as Tanks move through her village. Tanks and jeeps drive at high speed along paved roads. A camouflaged tank takes up a position. Another tank passes a sign identifying a town in the Giessen district of Hessen, Germany. Tanks and jeeps cross a steel bridge. More tanks, including some with foliage camouflage, and others filled with troops, are seen moving along roads..
The different implements and torture devices at the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany during World War II. The gas chambers at the concentration camp in Germany. The shower in the bathroom through which the poison gas, Zyklon, used to be inducted when the prisoners shower. The blast furnaces used for cremation of dead bodies of prisoners. The garments of the prisoners being inspected by the officials. Women's clothes, infant shoes, toys and dolls in a room. The storage room in the mills with sacks of prisoners' hair packed. Prisoners' jewelery, watches and wedding rings in the room. The instruments used to pull out the teeth of prisoners. An official holds a prisoner's teeth.
The French in occupied zones in Germany during World War I. French guards at Dortmund Central Station in Germany. A sign board reads 'Dortmund Hbf.'. Uniformed officials and guards move about on the station platform. French guards move in occupied German streets. Men and women on the streets.
Tourist destinations and architecture along the Rhine River in Germany. A bridge on the Rhine. The famous spa town of Wiesbaden alongside the river Rhine. A ship under a bridge. View of the Lorelei Rock and Gutenfels Castle (Schlossweg 26, 56349 Kaub, Germany) along the Rhine. Women work in a vineyard on the sloping banks of the river. A ship reaches the bank of the river.
Germany's military resurgence from the end of World War I through its reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 and union with Austria in 1938. German war materiel piled up in scrap yards and aircraft engines being destroyed in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles after World War 1. Smoke stacks of war plants being toppled, aircraft hangars being destroyed, and warships being scuttled. German postwar armored cars for training. A soldier flexes the rubber gun barrel on one of them. French forces, including Colonials, occupying Coblenz (Koblenz) in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, after World War I. French soldiers on guard at the railroad station as a train pulls in. French colonial troops tending to their horses. A British soldier standing guard in front of a building displaying a placard with the Union Jack and word:"General Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, No.1 Building." French troops stationed in front of their headquarters and patrolling fences across railroad tracks at their occupational boundary. A large film slate announcing that the Rheinland is again free, followed by scenes of German troops re-occupying the Rhineland in 1936. Local citizens cheer the troops, who parade through a city and along the banks of the Rhein River. German sentries posted at The "Deutsche Eck" in Koblenz beside the monument of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Sign demarking boundary of Austria. Border guards opening the gates and German troops entering as crowds cheer. Adolf Hitler speaking before a huge crowd,immediately following the Anschluss (union of Germany with Austria) on 12 March 1938.
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