Slate reads “Geheime Kommandosache” (“secret commando operation” in English). Flight test of Rheinmetall-Borsig Rocket Assist take off (JATO) units at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Peenemünde-West during World War II. A Junkers Ju-52 taxiing in an open field during an afternoon test. The Junkers Ju-52 transport plane is towing a large glider.
Two Rheinmetall-Borsig JATO units mounted on wing of Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-52 transport aircraft while in flight. The JATO units fire jet flame in flight.
German activist Rainer Langhans smokes a pipe and talks. Kommune 1 student activists in kitchen. A woman opens a refrigerator in the commune. Rainer Langhans and other activists stand beside a desk. German activist Fritz Teufel smiling and eats a pastry. Student activists working in their headquarters. Posters of Communist leaders Che Guevara and Mao Zedong on display. Fritz Teufel smoking a cigar, sitting with Rainer Langhans. Rainer Langhans playfully points his gun to Fritz Teufel. The two men laugh.
A man speaks behind the court podium during the trial of German activist Fritz Teufel in West Berlin. Audience watch the court proceedings. Detained student activists and Fritz Teufel take their seats. A protest sign in German reads “Solche Idioten regieren uns” (“Such idiots rule us”). A man snatches the sign away, resulting in a scuffle inside the courtroom. Detained student activists speaking to the audience. A man speaks to a reporter during a Television interview. Fritz Teufel blows bubble at another activist, Rainer Langhans. Langhans smiles. A woman puffs out smoke. Fritz Teufel and other activists smoke cigars together inside their headquarters.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro meets Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet politicians. Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro leaves with their entourage. The Brandenburg Gate as seen from the West Berlin side at the height of the Cold War. Barbed wires on the border of East and West Berlin. The construction of the Berlin Wall. East German soldier guards the border between the two Berlins. East German guard Konrad Schumann jumps over the barbed wire while dropping his PPSh-41 submachine gun as he escapes to West Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall. Schumann runs towards and boards a West Berlin police van. Host or narrator of the film shows photographs of Fidel Castro with Nikita Khrushchev and the “Leap into Freedom” photo by West German photographer Peter Leibing. “The communists are the true colonialists, as a matter of fact.” The narrator said as the show reaches its conclusion.
On the German Western Front in World War II a group of German troops bury the two-person crew of a French airplane that was shot down on September 11, 1939. The funeral, which takes place in Saarbrücken, is conducted with full military honors. The two French pilots were Lieutenant Jean Sueur and Captain Jacques Rosignol of 2 Escadrille de Reconnaissance 551. Each headstone is shown with the airman's hat on top. German soldiers place wreathes on the caskets and lower them into the ground. A large group of German soldiers, including a German military chaplain, are shown saluting the dead Frenchmen.
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