Nazi German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels visits Field Marshal Walter Model on the Western Front during World War II. A staff car driving on a road, likely in Oosterbeek near Arnhem, Netherlands. Joseph Goebbels shakes hands with Marshal Model upon arrival at the latter’s headquarters. Marshal Model performs the Hitler Salute. Other visitors saluted back. A Nazi SS soldier stands guard, watching the arrival of Goebbels. Other officers perform the Nazi salute. Joseph Goebbels and Marshal Model greet each other with the Nazi salute. Goebbels returns to his staff car camouflaged with pine branches. Goebbels talks to Marshal Model before leaving Model’s headquarters. In another sequence, Nazi German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels visits an armaments factory in Germany. Sign on the wall reads ‘Front und Heimat keen nur ein Ziel: Kampf bis zum Sieg!’ (‘Front and home have only one goal: fight to victory!’ in English). More Nazi factory signs reads ‘Unerschütterlich Kampfentschlossen Siegesgewiss!’ (‘Unshakable, determined to fight, certain to win!’) and ‘Mit dem Führer zum Sieg!’ (‘With the Führer to victory!’). Armaments workers perform the Nazi salute inside the factory. A Nazi German standard with the German name of Cologne ‘Köln’. Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech in front of German factory workers. Crowds of German factory workers and Nazi officers, including young men and women, listen to Goebbel’s speech. Goebbels gives encouragement to the workers during his speech. Goebbels talks about the war’s progress and Nazi Germany’s allies, such as Romania. He thanks them for their efforts. Goebbels ended his speech to the enthusiastic applause from the audience. The crowds began to sing a patriotic Nazi song, likely the Horst Wessel song. A Nazi standard representing ‘Rhein’.
U.S. President Richard Nixon in the U.S. Embassy in London and German Chancellery in West Germany during his visit to Europe. Motorcade of President Nixon departs from the U.S. Embassy in London. President Nixon and German Chancellor Kurt G Kiesinger arrive at the German Chancellery Palais Schaumburg in Bonn. President Nixon, West Germany President Heinrich Luebke and other officials and dignitaries pose for group photographs at the back portion of the Villa Hammerschmidt. President Nixon shakes hands with President Luebke. Dr Henry Kissinger and Chancellor Kurt G Kissinger discuss.
Scenes at the recently liberated Nazi German Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany, near the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of the Dachau Concentration Camp showing barracks, grounds, perimeter fencing, and various buildings. The main entrance gate of the camp. Views of some of the surviving liberated inmates from Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and Holland. Many of the survivors are starved and emaciated. View of a railroad train car that had arrived at the camp, carrying prisoner victims, with more of them dead than alive in the packed train car. Corpses lie inside an open door of a prison train box car. Bodies of victims under a blanket of snow in an open top train car. Some surviving liberated prisoners move piled bodies of dead victims from carts to prepare them for burial.
The Potsdam Conference in Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman joins Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower in a review of American troops in Frankfurt am Main city along the Main River in Germany. Exterior of the Cecilienhof in Potsdam. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin return to the Potsdam Conference. Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Attlee, Truman and others seated around a round table.
Entrance of a memorial with the years 1923 and 1939 posted above the doorway on large wreath. Two German Eagle statues stand on either side. A German military officer is exiting the doorway. Seen are remains of Bürgerbräukeller or Burgerbraukeller Hall, the historic site of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich (Rosenheimer Str. 5, 81667 München, Germany) that was destroyed by decapitation strike using a time bomb. The explosion occurred 15 minutes after Hitler departed after giving speech there, marking memory of old veterans of the Nazi movement. Six veterans were killed outright and 60 injured in the blast. The building is a shambles, with steel girders collapsed. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler attends funeral ceremony for 8 victims of the bombing. Soldiers hold Nazi flags. Some of the Nazi veterans are seen bandaged with injuries. Hitler and his Deputy Rudolf Hess honor the dead with a Nazi salute. Hitler talks to relatives of the victims. A large wreath is carried bearing the name Adolf Hitler. Funeral procession moves along a road, as Nazi veterans carry the coffins of their comrades. The funeral procession moves through the Victory Gate (Siegestor 80539 Munich, Germany) in Munich. Hitler and Hess ride in a car and step down in a small plaza. Nazi movement veterans stand, some with bandaged injuries. Crowds in the streets of Munich. Hitler rides standing in open car as he is cheered by crowds. German bombers fly overhead in formation.
Military athletes (in civilian clothes) sightseeing, during their time in Germany for the International Military Games of the Conceil International Du Sports Militaire. They board their bus after visiting Pilgrimage Church of Wies in Weilheim-Schongau, Germany. View out the bus window of typical Bavarian mountains and forests, as they speed along an autobahn. Camera focuses on several, singly, and in conversation with others. The road takes them in more rural areas of fields, farms, and woods, and eventually into a more built-up neighborhood of substantial traditional Bavarian homes, inns, hotels, and businesses.
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