Film begins showing view from a motor vehicle (unseen) as it drives toward a gateway lightly covered by snow, in places. A car and a motorcycle with sidecar pass in the opposite direction. The camera vehicle continues through the gateway , past an an ancient structure and courtyard leading to a tunnel that opens onto a street in the city of Bitburg, Germany. Several parked cars are seen along with several pedestrians. Classic old houses line the street, with narrow sidewalks between them and the roadway. A team of horses slowly pulls a covered wagon along an otherwise deserted section of the street. A few pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A tall structure, topped by a decorative tower, looms in the background. Scene changes to a U.S. soldier standing next to a TM-61 Matador tactical missile on a launch rail. View from vehicle driving past former German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Headquarters, now the U.S. 12th Air Force headquarters. It comprises several numbered entrances bunkered deep into the side of a hillside. An Air Force truck is parked outside of entrance number 3, and several U.S. Air Force airmen are also seen. One walks into the entrance, showing his identification to an Air Policeman at the door. Inside the complex, several U.S. Air Force officers discuss deployment of guided missiles in West Germany as part of West German defenses. One refers to a wall map as they converse. Lt. General William H. Tunner, Jr. speaks about the Tactical Missile Squadrons (Matador Squadrons) based in West Germany to counter aggression.
Scenes from relay race and award ceremony during 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Germany. The race starts. Participants of relay race run on race track. Runners exchange baton. Spectators cheer participants. Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, and Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels among spectators. Garlands of victory are placed on the heads of winning American and British athletes. Spectators applaud. Flags of United States, Britain and Germany are raised.
A Nazi Party meeting in Nuremberg, Germany in 1927. Nazis march, carrying a banner announcing their march from Berlin to Nuremberg during July and August of 1927, despite a ban. Adolf Hitler on the street in Nuremberg, as marchers come along with their banner. Hitler stands with Ernst Roehm, leader of the Storm troopers. Troopers stand with banner topped by swastika and letters: NSDAP, for the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi party). Banner beneath says simply: Germany-Wake up! Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess (or Heß) walk together. Views of Julius Streicher, an influential antisemitic publisher and Nazi party member. Hitler stands at front of an assembly of party members on a staircase, and then steps into an open car with some and drives off. Columns of Nazis line up in an open field. A marching band plays. A quote from a newspaper, of August 22, 1927,extols the Nazi rally for its thought and strict militaristic discipline. Trumpeters play, as Hitler stands on hillside with large contingent of Nazis. Many banners are displayed. Hitler speaks to the assembly saying in effect, that Germany's freedom will be resurrected just as the people and the fatherland will be reborn, more powerful than ever. The party members parade. Hitler gives Nazi salute. He is wearing iron cross decoration on his shirt.
Strategic bombing attack 'Shuttle Mission' by B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Army Air Forces on August 17, 1943 over Germany during World War II. A formation of B-17Fs over Germany. Vapor trails left by the airplanes. Aerial view of a German city. Smoking targets. B-17Fs over the Alps. A B-17 aircraft with a damaged tail flies over Regensburg, Germany. A B-17 aircraft with a damaged nose. Aerial view of African coastline. Mountainous terrain of Algiers, Algeria. Aerial view of barracks in Algiers. B-17Fs land on a field.
Images from late in World War II in Europe. Nighttime views of aerial bombardment of Germany late in World War II. Aerial view of many fires and explosions on ground in Germany at night as seen from Allied aircraft. Hermann Goering touring ruins in a German city. A lineup of new German Army recruits late in the war, including a very young boy soldier in full Army uniform, talking to an official who, from the back, appears to be Joseph Goebbels. Allies advancing into Berlin. Artillery and rockets being fired during Battle of Berlin. A German civilian woman walking among rubble and ruins in a German city. Victory celebrations in Paris during he liberation of Paris. Crowds in Paris cheering happily, view of Arc de Triomphe with band marching. View of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle walking side-by-side down a Paris boulevard as crowds cheer them. Soviet (?) military personnel wearing large improvised warm shoes walk in a snowy climate, exhausted. View of explosion as Nazi Swastika atop grandstand at Zeppelin field (Zeppelinfeld) in Nuremberg, Germany, is blown up by the U.S. Army after the defeat of Germany.
Luxembourgers returns from Germany after forced labor at the end of World War II. A crowd greets the Luxembourgers returning from Germany. A mother greets a daughter amidst the crowd. A Luxembourg girl, a resistance fighter hugs people in the crowd.. The girl shakes hands with the members of the crowd. An elderly man looks for her daughter. Three Dutch boys on the way home after two and a half years of forced labor in Germany. The crowd waits for the people who returns from Germany.
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