United States M-24 Light Tank of the U.S. 9th Army fires at a target. Soldiers aboard tank. Narrator describes the M-24 to help distinguish it in appearance from German tanks, during World War 2. The torsion bar suspension of M-24 Light Tank and its 16 inch wide tracks. The 75 mm gun barrel of the tank. Side by side shot of M5A1 and the M-24 replacing it. Comparing ammunition placed on ground. Recognition features of M-24.
Film 'Why We Fight' provides historical perspective on Adolf Hitler's plan of world conquest. Image of Otto von Bismark and year 1863 is seen with quote,"We will dominate the whole world." Year 1914 and image of Kaiser Wilhelm II and quote,"God has made us for civilizing the world. Woe and death to all who resist my will." Year 1933 and image of Adolf Hitler and quote: My motto is,'Destroy by all and any means. National Socialism will reshape the world'." German eagle monument with swastika. Troops in precise large formation during Totenehrung (honoring of the dead) at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally as Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Viktor Lutze walk forward during the ceremony. Buglers blow and troops march at another Nazi rally. Images of military graves in a cemetery. Images of British soldiers blinded by gas attacks in World war I. Bodies of persons dead from diseases due to war. Fleeting images of destruction and grief from war, including hanged persons. Hitler at a podium flanked by Himmler. Closeups of Hitler. The buglers previously shown are seen again.Hitler standing with Viktor Lutze and Rudolf Hess. Brief images of Mongols marching and riding horses, with image of Genghis Khan. Map showing Mongolian 13th Century conquests in Asia and Eastern Europe. German Institute of Geopolitics in Munich, founded by Karl Ernst Haushofer. Closeup of Haushofer with backdrop of world map. Clerks in the institute cataloging information. German soldiers entering and studying in the institute. Brief images of economic wealth of the world, roughnecks setting pipe at an oil well, a "forest" of oil well derricks, harvested trees, steam shovels at an open pit mine, ore on a conveyer, cattle, farmers harvesting grain, flocks of sheep, and human labor. Animated map showing distribution of land area in the world and comparing Hitler's plan of conquest to that of Gengis Khan.
German teacher teaches young boys and girls in a classroom. Children sing in praise of Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Picture of Hitler with the Nazi flag. Italian children in uniforms at school salute images of Benito Mussolini. Young Japanese boy children are led in a Banzai cheer by a military instructor in Japan. German Hitler Youth play drums and trumpets in a band during a rally. German boys in the band march with drums as others stand by. In Japan, view of young Japanese boys in military uniforms marching beside drill instructors. In Italy during World War II, a group of Italian boys in military uniform march in a parade. A very young toddler boy stands in uniform and raises his left hand in a fascist salute but is corrected by a nearby adult who helps him to raise his right hand instead. Pairs of Italian boys and girls salute each other with raised fascist salutes. Italian youth in military uniforms march in front of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome (the Altare della Patria also known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II or Il Vittoriano).
Hermann Goering shakes hands with officers, congratulating them following the Battle of Crete. German troops march led by a band. Women wave from buildings. Troops march on a street. People give Nazi salute. (World War II period).
Scenes following the April 1945 destruction of the Tangermünde Bridge over the River Elbe, by retreating German forces in World War 2. View of damaged Tangermunde Bridge. Defeated German soldiers and German civilians walk along the bridge, moving westward into American and British controlled areas, and fleeing advancing Soviet forces (fearing their retribution). Civilians climb the bridge carefully with their luggage, having to hold twisted steel girders with no flooring beneath. Wounded German walks carefully on the bridge. U.S. Army soldiers checking papers of German citizens crossing the bridge.
Kaiser Wilhelm II reviews troops in Zeebrugge, Belgium during World War I. German officers at a lake shore. A boat in the lake. Views of arriving boat of the Kaiser and officers. A flag of German Army on the boat. The Kaiser arrives in Zeebrugge.
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