Areas in Germany deliberately flooded by retreating German soldiers who destroyed dams to impede Allied advances during World War 2. U.S. Army trucks making their way through flooded area. American infantry and tanks battling with German snipers as they enter a town. U.S. soldiers firing small arms and mortars. Several GIs looking out a building window next to a flag telling others to stay away. (The flag reads: "Off Limits to all M.P.S to hot (sic) yet.") U.S. troops firing rifles, machine gun and recoiless rifle from building windows.German soldiers surrendering. American troops charging across a field. They round up several German prisoners and then continue across the field.
Bomb damage to Siemens Schuckert factory in Nuremberg, Germany. Polish, Russian and French refugees in a camp await trip to home. Women cook, women with their children and belongings get down from a truck. German women live in air raid shelters, hang clothes on clotheslines to dry. Children play around the wall, flags on a building in Furth. Truck convoy passes by the streets. Bomb damage to Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg. (World War II period).
Scenes of Anti-Jewish activities by Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi stormtroopers, in Germany. A sign cautions against believing Jewish propaganda about atrocities. A shop window with anti-Jewish grafiti. Germans pasting boycott posters on the roads and in the window of Jewish owned departmental store. Crowd of people seen.
Germans gathered in the streets of Germany. Nazi stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung (SA), spread anti-Jewish propaganda all around. A crowd gathered around Jewish stores to boycott the businesses and protest against Jews. Nazis in a car hold Swastika flags and shout slogans. Germans on bicycles going all around spreading Anti -Jewish propaganda.
Women work at a farm field in Germany. Trees in the field. Horse-carts on the field. Women harvest wheat and bundle wheat. Women plow fields with horse drawn plow, as men are away at war. Women, girls, and boys help with harvesting food like potatoes. Boys piling up potatoes on field. Young women sort postal mail. They line up to receive piles of mail for sorting and routing. Food goods in a warehouse including boxes of food, sacks of flour, barrels stacked high, slaughtered pigs hanging from hooks, sausages hanging from hooks. Factory workers (mostly boys and older men) eat food in a dining hall at workplace. View from a moving train of a a railway track ahead at a switch with branches to left and right. A train moving by on a railroad track, carrying goods. Officers talk between parked train cars. Workers shovel grain between train cars. Workers in snow connect fuel lines to railroad tanker cars to fill them with fuel for war effort.
Opening shows a German language poster promoting a May 4, 1940 Grosse Mei-Feier and military concert sponsored by the German American Companies of Brooklyn New York City, to be held in Schwaben Hall at Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. Next is opening credits for German film "Mettaldes Himmels" (Metals from Heaven), made in 1936. Animation shows the night view of the sky in Germany. Moon and stars in the sky. Meteors shoot. One impacts the earth and explodes. A crater on the earth's surface. Blacksmith of middle age pounds piece of glowing metal into a sword. A water wheel in a hut. Men work. They hammer metal in glowing hot fires. Rapid montage of scenes of war armament production and application of metals in war materiel. Rifles and artillery on a World War I era battlefield. World War 1 German tank on the battlefield. Military biplane aircraft fly in the sky. Naval ships fire guns and bombard targets. A German naval torpedo running near surface of water. Smoke arises due to firing.
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