Snow-covered hills at Berchtesgaden. Inside a building, Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union) with his General staff. Among others present are, General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; Colonel General Franz Halder and Colonel General Ludwig Beck. Animated map shows planned offensive against the Soviet Union and thence through the Caucauses and into Mideast oil fields. Further grand schemes are illustrated. Ocean supply lines needing to be choked off at Murmansk, Russia, and in the Mediterranean are diagrammed. German U-boat bases are shown on the map. View of a U-boat displaying skull and cross bones on conning tower. U-boat reinforced concrete pens. Map showing U-boat missions.
Filmed enactment involving several takes, shows an American military police jeep stopping a German civilian automobile on a dirt road in an area if woods. The MPs jump out of their jeep and and arrest the occupants after discovering weapons in their car.
Launching of German guided missiles at Peenemunde, Usedom island during World War 2. Sign: Peenemunde. German technician working on instrument at base of German V-2 rocket. Missile is shown in transporting trailer and elevating device. V-2 being elevated into launching position. Two technicians are standing on special ramp fixing access door onto warhead of missile.
Spectators are gathered on the steps at the left side of the Propyläen in Königsplatz, Munich. Quartermaster General (Generalquartiermeister) Erich Ludendorff, and several army officers walk forward, from the nearby doorway. Next, a procession of Sturm Abteilung (Storm troopers) is seen, wearing Nazi armbands. They parade in the streets of Munich, carrying Nazi flags. Several thousand assemble in Königsplatz. Next, General Ludendorff is seen on the steps of the Glyptothek (in Königsplatz) surrounded by civilians.
United States infantrymen find Adolf Hitler’s former cell in Landsberg Prison during World War 2. View of Landsberg Prison from across Hindenburgring street (Hindenburgring 12 · 86899 Landsberg am Lech). A United States army jeep is parked nearby. White flags of surrender from two prison windows. Wrecked barbed wire fencing flattened to ground and other ruins next to watch tower near Landsberg Prison. United States soldiers look through bedding and inspect memorabilia inside prison cell formerly belonging to Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment after the failed Beer Hall Putsch. A portrait of Adolf Hitler and a Nazi flag hang on the wall of the infamous cell. A soldier runs finger through entries in a logbook, points to portrait of Adolf Hitler and Nazi flag. A man standing outside Lansberg prison points to the window of Hitler's cell.
Junkers 52 aircraft parked in open field in the Peenemünde-West test site during World War II. . A glider in tow behind the Ju-52. Both aircraft taxi and take off, slight smoke seen from JATO bottle assist.
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