The growth of Nationalism in Prussia and the Kingdom of Italy as shown in Italian WWII propaganda film. An animated map depicting the division of Italian city states on the Italian peninsula during the early Modern Era. The animated map also shows the unification of Italy (also known as Risorgimento) by 1870. Another animated map depicts Prussia. Portraits of Royal House of Savoy, Prussian kings and prominent figures of Italian and German national movements such as Frederick II the Great (Friedrich II.), the Count of Cavour (Camillo Benso). Prussian-Italian alliance written in Italian. Portrait of Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician and activist. Scroll written with “1861”. Portrait of Otto von Bismarck. Animated map of Italy after the Risorgimento, the foundation of the Prussian Empire, and the annexation of Austria and Czechia. A drawing depicts the Treaty of Versailles. Chains surround Italy and Central Europe in a map. Benito Mussolini performs the Roman Salute from his balcony at the Palazzo Venezia (Piazza di S. Marco, 49, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. Fascist supporters hold signs reading “DUCE”. Adolf Hitler gives a Nazi Salute to crowds during an outdoor rally in Germany. Nazi flags decorate the stage and venue. A weighing scale with coins and two swords. The scale tipping down. Close-up view of Mussolini, with googles on his head, working in what appears to be a farm field around straw bales. Adolf Hitler raising his hand in a Nazi Salute. Crowds perform a Nazi Salute. Large columns of Italian soldiers marching in formation, followed by a scene of German soldiers marching in formation with rifles over their shoulders.
Opening slate states (in German) that as early as August 1933, Reinhold Tilling's rockets were test fired from aircraft. However, while Germany paid little attention, Russia and England showed in this work. View of airplane with two Tilling rockets under its wings. Closeup of the one under the right wing. Pilot climbs into cockpit of the plane. Slate reads: Shooting from the aircraft in 1933-34, the rockets achieved distances of 500 meters at altitudes of 7000-8000 meters. Still pictures taken from the ground of the rockets leaving trails as they are launched from the aircraft. The airplane is also seen in at least one photograph. One picture shows a rocket exploding in the air. Scene shifts to view of fire burning at one of Reinhold Tillings workshops, at Osnabruck, Germany, where he and his two assistants, Angela Buddenbohmer and Friedrich Kuhr, were killed when gunpowder charges they were compressing for rocket motors exploded, on October 10, 1933. Photos of Tilling and his assistants are shown. Final scene shows a public memorial to the deceased trio, which includes flowers from several groups, including the Nazi party. Nazi swastika flags are displayed in the background. One floral tribute also contains an airplane propeller. A large greenery Christian cross is seen as well as three small brass menorahs, one at each of the three mounds of flowers.
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Marshal Bernard Montgomery walking together and consulting a map, during World War 2. Sky filled parachutes of American paratroopers dropping from U.S C-47 airplanes over the Netherlands, including point of view shot from camera attached or held by a parachuting soldier. View of soldiers at open door of aircraft as the paratroopers jump out. A German airplane shot down and crashing with an explosion. U.S. C-47 aircraft towing gliders. U.s. Gliders landing in farm fields, some upending in the process. Paratrooper using crash an ax in attempt to rescue injured soldier from a crashed glider. U.S. military vehicle driving across the Rhine River on the Remagen bridge. A fallen soldier on the bridge sidewalk. U.S. forces driving through Eindhoven, Netherlands. U.S. Army artillery firing on AAchen, Germany. U.S. P-38 aircraft bombing the city.Views of destroyed buildings in Aachen. A U.S. Sherman tank exiting tunnel to a street. Sign above tunnel reads: Aachen-RotheErde. Urban warfare in and around Aachen. U.S. tank destroyer firing. U.S. tanks firing. U.S.infantry firing small arms. House-to-house combat.German prisoners being escorted under armed guard. American flag being raised on municipal building in Aachen, Germany. German refugees from the city with their belongings. A German woman ,with her family, talks with an American soldier.
Documentary titled 'Travel In Germany'. Views of Germany. Men, women and children inside a German luxury-train. Several facilities for passengers inside the train. Food served to the passengers. Telephone service for passengers between Hamburg and Berlin. Bed prepared inside a luxury compartment. Woman passenger goes to bed.
German activities after World War I. Hans Von Seeckt, a German General, reviews parade of German Army infantry and artillery in Potsdam. Paul Von Hindenburg, a German General, reviews a parade. The German Army using cardboard tanks and fake weapons in maneuvers during period after World War I and before militarization of Germany under the Nazis. Promulgation of new German constitution in the Garrison Church of Potsdam in March of 1933 in the presence of Paul Von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler and Franz Von Papen, a German Catholic Monarchist politician. Parade scenes of German soldiers in the early 1930s. Newly created Nazi Labor Corps and Adolf Hitler digging with a shovel at an inaugural ceremony. Shirtless labor corps members pulling together on ropes. Scenes of factories, manufacturing, industrialization and rebuilding of Germany and its military with remilitarization in the mid 1930s.
Tail and crushed wings of American B-17 bomber, one of several shot down over the Germany-Holland border, during World War 2. Bodies of two U.S. airmen lying on the ground next to the debris. Remains of crashed B-17, Serial number 42-39822, of the U.S. 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, which was shot down by German FW-190s while returning from a mission to Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, on January 11, 1944. A fuselage from downed allied warplane being hauled away on a truck. A junkyard filled with American warplane parts, stacked by type, engines in one pile, tails in another, etc. One vertical fin, marked with the 'triangle A' of the 91st Bomb Group, is from B-17G, tail number 42-37737, named "Tennessee Toddy" of the 401st Bomb Squadron. It crash landed after losing two engines, on 10 October 1943, at Brocklanderweg, near Apeldoorn, Holland. Two U.S. Army Air Corps prisoners being interrogated by a German officer. Group of United States airmen prisoners of war, apparently showing personal identifications (dog tags) to a German interrogator.
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