Testing of Reinhold Tiling's 120 cm model rocket in July, 1929, at Arenshorst and on August 29, 1929, in a demonstration for the Navy, at Meppen, Germany.
Views of Johannes Winkler's first prototype (HW1-A) liquid fuel rocket. Preparations in the field for testing the HW1A. Views of Winkler and associates setting up and fueling the prototype. Photographs of The first test of a liquid fuel rocket (Winkler's HW1-A)in Europe, on February 21, 1931, in Dessau, Germany. Sketches of his model HW1-C. Photograph of Winkler sitting next to the HW1-c, on a bench in the laboratory. A so-called Shear diagram pertaining to stresses experienced by the HW1-C rocket.
First test of a precursor to the Mirak rocket in Germany. Diagram of the so-called Achenstaber rocket.. Rocket pioneer, Klaus Riedel, and an associate, hold the long slender rocket. A barn with sandbagged window is seen behind them. The men lower the rocket through guidance brackets in a wooden pole. The rocket fuse is ignited and the rocket rises fairly high into the sky but tilts over and dives, crashing into the ground. Riedel and associates stand near a truck carrying metal framework designed to guide a rocket.
Areas in Germany deliberately flooded by retreating German soldiers who destroyed dams to impede Allied advances during World War 2. U.S. Army trucks making their way through flooded area. American infantry and tanks battling with German snipers as they enter a town. U.S. soldiers firing small arms and mortars. Several GIs looking out a building window next to a flag telling others to stay away. (The flag reads: "Off Limits to all M.P.S to hot (sic) yet.") U.S. troops firing rifles, machine gun and recoiless rifle from building windows.German soldiers surrendering. American troops charging across a field. They round up several German prisoners and then continue across the field.
Bomb damage to Siemens Schuckert factory in Nuremberg, Germany. Polish, Russian and French refugees in a camp await trip to home. Women cook, women with their children and belongings get down from a truck. German women live in air raid shelters, hang clothes on clotheslines to dry. Children play around the wall, flags on a building in Furth. Truck convoy passes by the streets. Bomb damage to Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg. (World War II period).
Scenes of Anti-Jewish activities by Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi stormtroopers, in Germany. A sign cautions against believing Jewish propaganda about atrocities. A shop window with anti-Jewish grafiti. Germans pasting boycott posters on the roads and in the window of Jewish owned departmental store. Crowd of people seen.
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