German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on a break in assignments, in Germany, during World War II. On a visit to the home of his friend, Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, he is seen helping Magda Goebbels roll her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down their backyard playground slide, on a wheeled board.The Goebbels son, Helmut, tries out the scooter on the slide while his sister, Helga, does a somersault on the climbing bar behind. She pushes Helmut too hard and he falls off the slide. Marshall Rommel and his aides watch with amusement, as all the Goebbels children, and their dog, frolic on, and around, the slide. Their mother, Magda, helps the little girls.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, on leave, in Germany during World War II, visits the home of his friend, Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, and shares some time with Magda (Mrs. Goebbels) and her children. He comes out of the house in the company of five Goebbels children and their dog. Mrs. Goebbels is behind them carrying her youngest daughter, Heidrun. They all walk a path and Rommel and Magda pose with her daughters. Then, as they walk toward the house, son, Helmut Goebbels, is seen walking backwards ahead of them. They all stroll in the garden.
Prisoners after being set free from German prison camps in Germany during World War II. Pastor Martin Niemoller smokes a pipe as he is interviewed by a soldier reporter, who takes notes as they converse. A snow covered prison building. A snow covered mountain. Capt John Alexander Elphinston, nephew of the Queen of England; Lord Las-celles, nephew of the King of England; 1st Lt John G Winant, son of the U.S. Ambassador.
Scenes of destruction in Germany at end of World War II, including Destroyed dwellings and rubble and rubbish-filled bomb craters. A U.S. soldier medic steps across a destroyed structure. German citizens line up to obtain water from a small tank trailer. A bucket being filled. A German civilian work crew laying new water pipes. A large trash heap displaying a sign in German reading: Drinking strictly forbidden. Danger from Typhus!(Trinken Strengstens verboten. Typhusgefahr!). Germans wearing gas masks as they lead horses drawing corpse-laden carts, along a road. Allied military spraying German civilians with DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) at a delousing station. They give each treated person a certificate certifying their treatment. The treated include men, women, and many mothers with their children. A nurse holds a small child as the mother is treated.
Launch of a Dornier Do-18 seaplane from the S.S. Schwabenland (Bremen) in Germany. The mother ship underway. A man stands on the wing of a Dornier Do-18 seaplane. Closeup of catapult controls. The seaplane takes off from the Schwabenland. Men on deck look at the aircraft as it takes off.
German citizens exchange old money for new money in Germany during Currency Reform of 1948. Pedestrian walk on a street in the rain. Crowded street cars in the background. People look at Münchner Merkur newspaper and posters in Munich announcing the currency exchange. People wait in line to get Deutschmark for old Reichmark. Various closed storefronts in a German city. The crowd assembles in a street waiting to get the new currency. Crowds in front of the main railroad station in Frankfurt. Newspapers being unloaded from printing presses of Münchner Merkur newspaper production plant after workers change type casts. Printed newspapers being stacked. People in Odeonsplatz in Munich rush after a newspaper truck to get the latest news on the money change. German people standing and seated reading the newspapers. Boxes with Deutsche Marks are stacked in banks and checked. Packages of newly printed currency on a counter. Money bags sealed and loaded into a bus. View of Marienplatz town square in Munich. Long lines of people carrying umbrellas stand in rain waiting to exchange money. The money being transferred and exchanged. People sign papers after the exchange. Old money dropped into a wooden box. People comparing the new with the old currency. A man changing prices in store windows. Merchants arranging goods for display in previously empty shop windows (due to prevalence of black market before the reform). Ober Director Dr. Puender speaks on the money reform.
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