Flight tests, during World War 2, of German flying boat Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking, powered by six JU-207 engines. BV-222 taxis over Elbe River. BV-222 takes a turn. BV-222 taking off. BV-222 in flight. ( Note: Location is Hamburg-Finkenwerder, where Airbus facility is now located. In the background can be seen the north Bank of the Elbe river at Blankenese.)
Revealing of Nazi atrocities at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, soon after its liberation in World War II. Soldiers and civilians standing on the field. They take out corpses different areas. Mutilated corpses on the field. Soldiers and civilians discuss amongst themselves. Bayonet and bullet wounds in the chest of the bodies of victims.
Scenes at end of World War II in Europe. Aerial view of the city of Rogensburg with its rivers. A harbor and a dockyard in the city. Bomb damaged buildings.
American troops patrol the Rhine river in European Theater around end of World War 1 following Armistice. United States Army forces in a patrol boat in the Rhine river at Deutsches Eck or the "German Corner" in Koblenz where the Moselle joins the Rhine. The boat approaches and slowly views a paddle wheel steamboat named Preussen that is flying the American flag and has United States soldiers aboard. The Preussen is docked at Deutsches Eck. Slow pan of the Preussen shows rescue boats and crew aboard. Crew show machine guns setup on the Preussen paddle ship. As boat slowly pulls away there is a view of the equestrian statue of German Emperor William I rising in background behind the moored Preussen. Next view shows same boat on Rhine and view of Fortress Ehrenbreitstein rising up from dock area. Railroad train visible near dock below Fortress Ehrenbreitstein. View changes to a group of American, French and German soldiers on land. A United States soldier lights up cigarette for a German soldier and he shows an insignia on his cap to the German soldier. The German Army soldier looks at the cap, turns and runs away with two fellow German soldiers following. The two remaining American soldiers and one French soldier stand and laugh.
Views of the Schauspielhaus on the Maximilianstrasse in Munich, where the The Munich Kammerspiele (Münchner Kammerspiele) theater company is presenting a play. People entering the building. Inside,a U.S. Army Lieutenant shakes hands with the theater company director, Erich Engel, and presents him with a document, as some cast members and theater patrons watch. Closeup of Engel. Local officials converse at front of theater. American military personnel are among the audience seen in background. Scenes shift to cast members getting made up for their roles in Shakespeare's Macbeth. A man being attended by a makeup artist. A woman at her dressing table. Makeup being applied to another man. Backstage, a manager rings a warning bell for the cast and members hurry to take their positions onstage. The stage manager strikes a gong and men raise the curtain. The cast onstage performing.
At the end of World War 2, in a military-scientific endeavor called Operation Backfire, German rocket troops, under British control, built and test-fired three V-2 missiles at the former German naval station in Altenwalde, a district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony near the North Sea.. A V-2 rocket is seen igniting on its launch pad, rising into the air, and entering the stratosphere at a speed of 5 thousand kilometers per hour. Views of the rocket in flight. Finally, as the experiment ends, the V-2 shuts down and falls to the earth. (This footage is rare as it contains extra scenes not found in the official Operation Backfire Report film summary. It is also formatted for post-war German audiences.)
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