Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany ca.1934. Massed Storm troopers and spectators salute Hitler. An artillery piece is fired. Hitler personally recognizing loyal Storm troopers. Animated map of Asia, showing Japanese occupation of Manchuria, and Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines describe Britain and France hesitating to support League of Nations oil sanctions against Italy; and U.S. increasing its oil exports to Italy by 600% (ca. 1935). Hitler and Hermann Goering looking pleased in Hitler's private railroad car. Adolf Hitler at a planning table covered with maps. German citizens traveling abroad and Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting London, as ambassador to Great Britain, in 1936. View of Léon Degrelle and his Catholic-fascist, Rexist party in Belgium (ca. 1936). View of Colonel Francois de la Rocque speaking at a Cross of Fire (Croix-de-Feu) party night rally in France. Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian National Socialist official, seen in an automobile during a parade. Sir Oswald Mosley addressing followers and defending Hitler. Street scenes of public disorder attributed to Nazi sympathizers in France and Belgium. Mass meeting of the German American Bund in Madison Square Garden, New York City,1939. U.S. flags and picture of George Washington decorate stage. Fritz Julius Kuhn addresses the gathering and members rough up a protester. Views of heavy industry in Germany, especially steel manufacturing for remilitarization. Persons working at a German concentration camp. Dramatized execution by machine gun. View of Heinrich Himmler. German President Paul von Hindenburg. German national conscription of 1935 during military mobilization efforts. German youth training pilots with gliders. German paratroopers, Junkers 52 aircraft, German soldiers goosestep, views of German tanks. Ju 87 Stuka plane. German invasion of Rhineland, 1936. Construction of Siegfried Line. Antitank barriers, bunkers, dragons teeth. Hitler visiting Westwall. German military parade.
Film opens showing Adolf Hitler ascending stairs to the Bergfhof, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, and followed by other high ranking Nazi officers. Inside, General staff officers begin briefing Hitler about plans for German expansion Eastward. Finger points to Austria on map. Next, on March 12, 1938, Border Guards are seen dismantling barriers at the border as German troops march into Austria. German aircraft fly overhead. Hitler stands in his open touring car as it drives into Vienna, where local people line the sidewalk, and welcome him with the Nazi salute. Maps depict the fall of Austria and illustrate the anticipated conquest of Czechoslovakia. Brief overlay image of Bismark as narrator quotes him about Bohemia being key to control of Europe. German troops advancing up steep mountainous terrain. German soldiers on horseback and wagons passing road sign pointing to cities of Karlovy Vary and Cheb, in the west Bohemia region of Czechoslovakia. Czech troops marching in formation with shouldered arms. View of Czech Avia B-534 warplanes at an airfield. Interior of a Czech Skoda works munitions factory. President of Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, signing papers at his desk. French lancers marching in formation, on parade. (Narrator comments on French military alliances with Czechoslovakia and Great Britain.) View of warships in British fleet. Hitler outdoors, surrounded by German military officers, looking over large maps. Animated map highlights the "Sudetenlands" bordering Germany, including districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia inside Czechoslovakia, where use of German language was common. Street scene from that area showing some youths in uniforms, marching. Hitler giving speech about bringing the German people together again. The uniformed youth marching at a camp. Sign erected on stone wall at the camp reads: "Die Faune ist mehr als der..."(the flag is more than ...) Youth in Naval garb march on a street with a Nazi flags. Spectators give Nazi salutes. Young men in Khaki uniforms march with Nazi symbols. Scenes shift to similar parades in Norway, Sweden,China,and the United States. Back in Czechoslovakia, Hitler reaches down from his podium to shake hands with parading youth. Images of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, Senator Robert Wagner, Wendell Wilkie, Henry J. Kaiser, and American military members, superimposed on American flags. Sudentenland Nazi supporters marching. Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein, Sudeten German politician, with a Nazi officer. More views of Sudeten Nazi supporters. Nazis in an office showing blackjacks. Hospitalized Czechs who suffered at hands of Nazi supporters in street fights. Hitler speaking before the Bundestag. Closeup of Joseph Goebbels.Foreign minister Maxine Lichtenhof speaking to League of Nations meeting announcing Russia's readiness to back action against Germany. Czech borders being closed. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arriving by plane in Munich. Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Hermann Goering with Chamberlain, at the meeting to sign the Munich Agreement. View of protests by people in the streets of Czechoslovakia. French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and Chamberlain, both being praised by countrymen upon their respective returns from Munich. (Chamberlain seen arriving just before giving famous "peace for our time" speech.)
The different implements and torture devices in the liberated Ohrdruf Concentration Camp operated by Nazi Germany in World War II. The gas chambers in the concentration camp in Germany. The shower in the bathroom through which the poisonous gas, Zyklon, was inducted when the prisoners took a 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 prisoner's hair packed. Prisoner's jewelry, watches and wedding rings in the room. The instruments used to pull out the teeth of the prisoners. An official holds a set of teeth.
Citizens in Gardelegen Germany carry 1100 crosses for graves of Concentration camp victims at a camp near Gardelegen. Scenes from various concentration camps in Germany. A crowd around a liberated concentration camp building. Soldiers and officials enter through gates at numerous camps marked with "Arbeit Macht Frei" on gates. Liberated victims who are able smile and cheer. Liberated prisonsers grab food from a container. U.S. soldiers bring out bodies of gravely ill and emaciated men from barracks and torture areas Gaunt victims carried away in stretchers. A man carries an emaciated victim to a waiting vehicle. An injured man lying on the ground. Physicians examine physical torture evidence and provide medical aid to vicitims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Doctors examine a man, a woman, and several starving children and infant victims. (World War II period).
Dead bodies at the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany during World War II. Two soldiers on the side of a rail car. Piles of dead bodies of prisoners in the rail cars who were suffocated to death. U.S. soldiers hauling a dead body from water. People watch. Dead bodies of Nazi atrocity victims piled up Majdanek and Ohrdruf where German captors had attempted to kill all remaining prisoners before liberation by the Allies. A face of a dead prisoner with one eye pierced. A barn in Gardelegen Germany where prisoners were herded in and then burned alive in what became known as the Gardelegen Massacre. Remains of bodies of prisoners in the barn. A horse carriage enters the gates of prison camp. Officials seen with a captured German guard or official of the Mauthausen camp. U.S. soldiers hold him at gunpoint. View of Josef Kramer, the captured Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Nazi German women guards and men guards and officials come out of various camp buildings and are marched away by Allied guards.
A Russian feature film depicts the meeting of American and Russian troops on the River Elbe in Germany. Re-enactment : Explosions in a German city. Men moving with belongings to get out of the town of Altenstadt. A large crowd of Germans fighting and stampeding to get into an evacuation ship to leave. Altenstadt in Germany before American and Russian troops arrive. The ship has 'Adolf Hitler' written on it. The ship prepares to leave the shore. A tank on fire falls into the river. Civilians rushing to get onto the ship. Russian tanks enter the city and move along the roads in the city. Houses on the sides of the roads. The ship moves away from the shore. Russian troops firing. Election campaigns in the Russian zones of the German city. A poster of a candidate and loud speakers on a vehicle. Trains loaded with people leave from Bahensteig and Altenstadt. The burning form of a leader. Wreckage of armored vehicles on the shore of the river. Russian tanks and troops on the shore of the River Elbe. (World War II period).
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