Germany Air Force preparing for the invasion of Poland. German soldiers load bombs on a Stuka Ju-87 dive bomber and camouflage it. Number of German Dornier Do 217 bomber aircraft parked on field. Soldiers inspect bombs lined up on the ground. They prepare machine gun ammunition for aircraft. Bombs loaded under aircraft wing. Aircraft are refueled. Troops rest with the camouflaged German aircraft parked in the background.
During the period of the Weimar Republic, following World War 1, an officer on horseback reviews German soldiers on parade on a tree-lined dirt road.They are led by a brass band mounted on horseback, followed by a contingent of mounted German Lancers. A brass band stands and plays opposite the reviewing officer, as a unit of infantry with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets marches past, led by a goosestepping unit. Numerous flags are carried by marchers at the rear. Scene shifts to a railway platform, where German Army and Navy officers accompany Friedrich Ebert, the first President of Germany, as he reviews an honor guard drawn up in precise formation. President Ebert is introduced to other German officers.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on a break in assignments, in Germany, during World War II. On a visit to the home of his friend, Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, he is seen helping Magda Goebbels roll her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down their backyard playground slide, on a wheeled board.The Goebbels son, Helmut, tries out the scooter on the slide while his sister, Helga, does a somersault on the climbing bar behind. She pushes Helmut too hard and he falls off the slide. Marshall Rommel and his aides watch with amusement, as all the Goebbels children, and their dog, frolic on, and around, the slide. Their mother, Magda, helps the little girls.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, on leave, in Germany during World War II, visits the home of his friend, Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, and shares some time with Magda (Mrs. Goebbels) and her children. He comes out of the house in the company of five Goebbels children and their dog. Mrs. Goebbels is behind them carrying her youngest daughter, Heidrun. They all walk a path and Rommel and Magda pose with her daughters. Then, as they walk toward the house, son, Helmut Goebbels, is seen walking backwards ahead of them. They all stroll in the garden.
Prisoners after being set free from German prison camps in Germany during World War II. Pastor Martin Niemoller smokes a pipe as he is interviewed by a soldier reporter, who takes notes as they converse. A snow covered prison building. A snow covered mountain. Capt John Alexander Elphinston, nephew of the Queen of England; Lord Las-celles, nephew of the King of England; 1st Lt John G Winant, son of the U.S. Ambassador.
Scenes of destruction in Germany at end of World War II, including Destroyed dwellings and rubble and rubbish-filled bomb craters. A U.S. soldier medic steps across a destroyed structure. German citizens line up to obtain water from a small tank trailer. A bucket being filled. A German civilian work crew laying new water pipes. A large trash heap displaying a sign in German reading: Drinking strictly forbidden. Danger from Typhus!(Trinken Strengstens verboten. Typhusgefahr!). Germans wearing gas masks as they lead horses drawing corpse-laden carts, along a road. Allied military spraying German civilians with DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) at a delousing station. They give each treated person a certificate certifying their treatment. The treated include men, women, and many mothers with their children. A nurse holds a small child as the mother is treated.
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