Einwohnerwehr or Freikorps (German Home Guard militia) marching and training, firing rifles, and climbing obstacles. Some militiamen wear white arm bands displaying Maltese Cross. Young officer salutes the marching guards as he stands next to a militiaman holding white flag with Maltese Cross on it. German soldiers, returning home from World War 1, parade down a city street, accompanied by a military band. Cavalry soldiers ride horses. They are surrounded by a marching crowd, so thick, it almost obscures them.
A Nazi film released before World War 2 examines hereditary diseases in German citizens, and the costs for caring for such patients. Mentally disabled and deranged adults and children are shown in German medical institutions. Mentally disabled patients are shown in a disparaging way. Close views of epileptic and schizophrenic cases. Various individual and family cases are shown attempting to focus on hereditary causes for the afflictions. Physically deformed patients. Statistics are shown on the cost to German society of supporting the mentally and physically handicapped German citizens. Sterilization and possible euthanasia suggested (later enacted as part of the Nazi program known as Aktion T4). End of clip shows NSDAP ideal scenes of healthy Aryan German young men working in a field, and group of happy young German children smiling.
'GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) Combat Film'. A Luftwaffe aircraft seen in flight and later exploding due to attack during World War II.
A film about U.S. 8th Fighter Command in World War 2. Gun camera film from P-47 aircraft flown by First Lt. V.H. Wynn 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. It records his attacking 2 German ME-109 aircraft on 22 December 1943. The German pilot of the last Me-109 jettisons his canopy and bails out of his plane in the last frames.
Slate reads: "VIII Fighter Command Combat Film No. 172 Lt. Kress 360 Sqdn. 24 Jan. 1944 356 F.G. Attacking F.W.190" However, the gun camera footage shows a German Messerschmitt, Me-109, with its landing gear extended, being fired upon. The ME-109 explodes.
German fighter planes explode and fall down as they are shot down by the United States fighter planes during World War II. German ship maneuvers to escape attack
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