Lieutenant Willruth of 335 Squadron, 4th Fighter Group,8th Air Force, engages German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft flying low over mountainous area in Germany. Seen via gun camera footage, from his North American P-51 Mustang airplane, gunfire hits the Bf-109 which starts smoking. At TC:00:18, the German pilot bails out. The aircraft goes out of control, catches fire and crashes. The gun camera continues to record, showing another encounter with a German fighter plane. As it is struck by gunfire, it rolls over and descends trailing white smoke. An explosive flash occurs and the German airplane free falls straight down into forest below, leaving a wide trail of white smoke. (World War II period).
From a Russian feature film "Meeting on the Elbe" depicting East Meets West meeting of the American and Russian soldiers at the River Elbe in Germany on April 25 and April 26, 1945. The film is dubbed in Korean. Reenactment: The interiors of Russian occupation headquarters in a German city perhaps intended to be Torgau. An American officer talks to the Russian officer in the headquarters. Two nuns stand beside them and listen to the conversation. The American officer moves over and picks up the telephone and speaks over the telephone. The nuns and the Russian officer watch the American officer. The Russian officer sits down at the table and writes on a paper. The American officer leaves and the nuns bow to the officer. A woman in a bicycle approaches the American officer. The woman speaks to the officer. Other men and women move about in the headquarters. The American officer talks to a group of men. The officer talks to a couple of men. A Russian guard stands behind. The American officer outside a door to an office room.
As part of the cleanup, a week after the Carnival, workmen destroy floats used during pre-lenten festivities in Germany. The floats represent all manner of things from a person needing first aid, to caricatures of political figures. A sign reads "wohlstand fur alles" (Prosperity for everyone). Caricatures of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard are among the floats being destroyed. One float depicts a gymnast, smoking a cigar, as he exercises on parallel bars.
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, near Weimar. Lamp shade made from human skin. German civilians gathered around table containing the lamp and tall jars containing laterally cut human organs from atrocity victims. American soldiers standing by show Nazi objects on table to German civilian people. Huge crowd gathered at the camp courtyard area. Many people on the roof watching. Reactions of civilians seen as they view evidence of Nazi atrocities committed. (World War II period).
German film entitled Yesterday and today. The "yesterday" portion Opens showing miserable situation of post-World War I economic depression in Germany. The interior of an idle abandoned factory. River barges sitting covered and unused. The closed entrance to an idle factory. In a brighter "today" part of the film, machinery is seen moving. People on bicycles and walking, fill sidewalks and streets going to work. More machinery seen operating.Smoke billows from industrial smoke stacks. More views of manufacturing machinery in operation. Adolf Hitler in civilian clothes is seen addressing a gathering of workers in a factory. He extols the German workers. Views of heavy construction machinery at work and arches being built for a long high bridge across a river. More views of bridges and highways under construction.
On German Field Marshal, Paul Von Hindenburg in Germany. Paul Von Hindenburg as a captain examines maps during World War I. An official stands near him. He reviews First World War German troops and decorates soldiers during a ceremony. Soldiers salute him. Scene shifts and show Hindenburg greeting citizens as he walks through the streets and they throw flowers. He speaks to elderly German military veterans who are part of an honor guard. He confers with officers. Civilians on either side of the streets. Flags in the background.
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