Famous tourist destinations and architecture in Saxony, Germany, before World War 2. Views of the Moritzburg Castle (Schloss Moritzburg, Schloßallee, 01468 Moritzburg, Germany) and the Semperoper Opera House building (Semperoper Dresden Schinkelwache Theaterplatz 2 01067 Dresden) in Dresden, Germany. View of the world-famous Zwinger Museum (Zwinger Theaterplatz 1 01067 Dresden). Trains passes by on a track. Buildings in the background.
Famous tourist destinations and architecture in Hamburg, Germany, before World War 2. The Alster River in Hamburg. A train runs on a bridge over the river. Trees in the background. People row boats in the river. Buildings seen on either side of a stream in Hamburg. View of the Chilehaus (Chile House Fischertwiete 2A, 20095 Hamburg, Germany) in the modern Kontorhaus District, Hamburg. People walk outside the modern Hamburg Airport (Flughafenstr. 1-3, 22335 Hamburg, Germany). Flags on either side of the airport. A Zepellin airship seen. Scenes of St. Pauli, the entertainment district of Hamburg, during the night. A Hamburg American line steamer seen.
The Nuremberg War Crime Trials at the Palace of Justice (Fürther Str. 110, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany) in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. The Palace of Justice where the proceedings of the war crime trials take place. Guards at an entrance doorway check the identity cards of the visitors. Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party Rudolf Walter Richard Hess, the President of the Reichstag Hermann Wilhelm Goring and Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop seated in a courtroom. Judges take their seats. Chief United States prosecutor Robert H. Jackson opens the trials. He states about crime against peace of the world. A judge states his comments. The defendants pleading to the judge. Goering attempts to make a statement and is admonished by the court. All defendants plead not guilty. From a newsreel released November 29, 1945.
During the Nazi leaders trial for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany Nazi leaders Joachim von Ribbentrop and Frick signs a document regarding the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. Flashback views during World War 2 as Nazi German soldiers march in Czechoslovakia. A map shows expanding frontiers of Nazi Germany.
United States 9th Armored Division crosses the Rhine River in Germany., during World War 2. Opening scene shows several amphibious assault craft being moved by crane at a port in Belgium, where they are loaded on tractor trailer trucks and driven across Belgium to support Allied advance into Germany. British sailors ride atop the craft. They are brought into a town where a signalman, standing atop one, uses semaphore flags to transmit a message. Next, a smoke generator is seen creating a smoke screen over the area. Landing vehicles tracked (LVT) are moving over ground adjacent to the Rhine River. A formation of American B-17 bombers flies overhead. View from bomber, showing bombs striking German industrial targets. Closeup of two U.S. soldiers watching from the West bank of the Rhine, as U.S. bomb strike targets on the East Bank. View of smoke rising from bomb strikes. View of bridges destroyed by German forces. Closeup of three U.S. soldiers standing together. A German Messerschmitt Me-110 warplane passes overhead. Wrecked railroad bridge seen from above. The East bank seen from an aircraft. Soldiers refueling from 55 gallon drums. Troops moving through smoke screen. Two soldiers looking at the Rhine where the Ludendorff steel bridge is seen still standing. View of bridge at Remagen, from a cliff on the West bank of the Rhine. Soldiers in a jeep approach the bridge on West bank. View from jeep driving on riverbank underneath the bridge. Soldiers running across the footpath on the bridge. View from vehicle driving across the bridge. Troops and equipment crossing the bridge into Germany on East side of the Rhine. Large sign posted on bridge tower, reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet, Courtesy of the 9th Armored Division." Group of American soldiers watching as others cross the bridge. Several British Lancaster bombers are seen over the Rhine River. Inflight closeup of one releasing a large bomb. Camera tracks its fall to explode on target. Medical Corpsmen hurrying along the river bank, carrying a stretcher. Troops entering small boats and amphibious assault craft to cross the river. A U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft diving. A pilot wearing an oxygen mask seen in a cockpit. Troops in an LVT crossing the Rhine. More views of American and British troops crossing the Rhine by water. Troops being organized as they move out on the Eastern shore. A column of British troops moving on a road and escorting German prisoners. Two of the prisoners looking up as a formation of U.S. C-47 aircraft fly overhead. View inside a C-46D transport as troopers jump from its double rear paratroop doors. View from aircraft as paratroops descend with chutes open. A C-46 flying low over a German town, towing a Waco CG-4A glider. Army vehicles crossing river on a pontoon bridge. Closeup glimpse of a British officer. British troops riding in army trucks. (Note: Vehicles: seen in this film include: Diamod T 981, M20 MB GPW, M8 Armored Car Landing Craft, LVT, Rogers Trailer M9, M4 Sherman, Quad Mount, DUKW, WLA, CCKW )
Film begins showing view from a motor vehicle (unseen) as it drives toward a gateway lightly covered by snow, in places. A car and a motorcycle with sidecar pass in the opposite direction. The camera vehicle continues through the gateway , past an an ancient structure and courtyard leading to a tunnel that opens onto a street in the city of Bitburg, Germany. Several parked cars are seen along with several pedestrians. Classic old houses line the street, with narrow sidewalks between them and the roadway. A team of horses slowly pulls a covered wagon along an otherwise deserted section of the street. A few pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A tall structure, topped by a decorative tower, looms in the background. Scene changes to a U.S. soldier standing next to a TM-61 Matador tactical missile on a launch rail. View from vehicle driving past former German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Headquarters, now the U.S. 12th Air Force headquarters. It comprises several numbered entrances bunkered deep into the side of a hillside. An Air Force truck is parked outside of entrance number 3, and several U.S. Air Force airmen are also seen. One walks into the entrance, showing his identification to an Air Policeman at the door. Inside the complex, several U.S. Air Force officers discuss deployment of guided missiles in West Germany as part of West German defenses. One refers to a wall map as they converse. Lt. General William H. Tunner, Jr. speaks about the Tactical Missile Squadrons (Matador Squadrons) based in West Germany to counter aggression.
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