The Germans dig defensive positions on the eastern border of Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth, Reich Labor Service units and Baltic people dig defensive trenches on Germany's eastern border. View of Hitler youth lined up with shovels ready to fall out and dig. Hitler youth ride to the eastern front trench digging site on bicycles while holding shovels. At the trenches, men and women march carrying shovels and dig defensive positions. Mass hand digging effort underway by men and women and Hitler youth. Ground and aerial views of the trenches being dug. Wide aerial view of long line of jagged defensive trenches separating German held areas from the front with the Soviet Russian forces. English overlay narration describes difficult working conditions for the Baltic forced laborers, virtually slave labor, with poor working and living conditions.
A munition and armament factory in Germany, early in World War II, as Germany pursued aggressive remilitarization. Interior of the war materiel factory. Men work to produce war equipment and ammunition. The forging and shaping of iron artillery pieces or gun barrel and forging tools and lathes at work. German Men monitor the production process in the arms factory. A stack of artillery shells.
A munitions and armament factory in Germany during World War II. Interior of the factory. Men work to produce war equipment and materiel. The production of gun barrels is seen, for large land based guns and artillery or for naval warship guns. Forging, shaping, and cutting tools at work during military buildup and re-militarization of Germany.
Interior of a war materiel factory in Germany early in World War 2. Men work to produce war equipment, including rifles. Men on an assembly line producing German rifles. Scenes showing new rifle stocks and rifle barrels being assembled. A man inspects a gun barrel and gun sight. Scenes of German men working to produce war materiel during Germany's remilitarization.
Statue of Karl Marx on his grave stone in Highgate Cemetery, London. A picture of Karl Marx. Scenes in Russia around the time of the Russian Revolution circa 1917 and creation of the Soviet Union. Soviet soldiers walking slowly in loose formation. Bolsheviks standing with a large banner. Images spanning many years thereafter: Damaged shops on a street. "One way" street signs in several languages. Large gathering of people carrying signs reading: "Frieden" (Peace, in German). A sign reading: "HALT, Landesgrenze" marking a German provincial boundary. A sign in German, designating the customs border at Furth im Wald, Bavaria ("Zollgrenz-Bezirk, Furth i.Wald"). East German border guards setting obstacles and sentry paths at barbed wire barriers (constituting the Berlin Wall, early on). Picture of Günter Litfin, a twenty-four-year-old tailor, who swam across the Spree Canal to West Germany on 24 August 1961. View of him being fatally shot from across the border, by East German guards, as he is being pulled into West Germany (the first such fatality at the East West German border). Animated map of the world with label references to Berlin,1961; Havana, 1959; Budapest, 1956; Coyoacan, 1940; and Kronstadt, 1921.
An Autobahn bridge under construction in Germany. Steel frame structure of the bridge under construction. Views of the framework. Views of the completed autobahn between Berlin and Hanover, Germany.
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