Animated map shows shows areas of Czechoslovakia constituting the Sudetenland. Scenes of numerous idle industrial plants in the region during period of economic trouble, high unemployment and the Great Depression. Some idle factories and businesses with chains and locks. Views of unemployed workers. More and more views of idle work places. Unhappy jobless persons. Scene shifts to hundreds of thousands of Czech people leaving their homes in the Sudetenland. Some are seen walking along a road carrying their belongings. Some use baby carriages and others use bicycles to carry their belongings. Some lead cattle on tethers. Others have carts. Views of weary refugee Czechs traveling and some at resting places. Many views of evacuees passing a Sudetenland border and moving across roads, fields, and in every imaginable manner as they leave and begin to seek new homes. Many are seen crying and weeping. Then suddenly, the film shifts to October 1, 1938, as German forces enter the Sudetenland and are happily cheered by German-speaking residents. Large formation of German troops marching along a street as spectators render Nazi salutes. A welcoming banner is stretched across the street. Many women wave and throw flowers at the rapidly passing German soldiers in vehicles. View from one of the German vehicles of the people crowding around them and cheering them. During a lull in traffic, a woman walks on the empty street (still surrounded by sidewalks full of spectators) and strews more flowers along the roadway. Crowds cheer with great enthusiasm as Adolf Hitler is seen riding in an open motorcar and entering the German occupied area at the Wildenau crossing on October 3, 1938. The car is mobbed by Sudeten Germans who shake hands with Hitler. A banner thanking Hitler for the occupation hangs across the roadway. Many views of Hitler saluting and waving to the enthusiastic population. At one point he stops the car and walks on the street, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, who also meets and greets people in the crowd, including some children to whom he gives candy. Hitler also greets a small girl and gives her some candy.
German M-Class mine sweeper in waters off France in World War 2. It is armed with quad-mounted 2 cm Flak 38 AA guns (2 cm Flakvierling 38). German Navy sailors look up at contrails from high flying Allied aircraft. Officer sights aircraft overhead and hurries to report it. He records his observation in a log. German radio operator transmits information over wireless telephone by morse code telegraph key. A mass of contrails from Allied aircraft is seen in the sky. Scene shifts to a German airfield in France, where Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighters are lined up. Ground crewman shows motion picture gun camera for an airplane. Men push a Messerschmitt Bf 104 out of a hangar. Closeup of German pilots strapping into Me-104s and taxiing for takeoff. FW-190s and Me-109s taking off from airfield. German civilians entering a Flak tower for refuge as a bomb shelter. View from inside as doors close. Trams stopped on street. Hospital staff moving patients to bunkers (bomb shelters). Massive contrails from Allied bombers. View inside a German command post, where women workers and German officers with headphones plot positions of attacking planes on large maps. Flight of German Me-109 aircraft in formation. Gun camera showing A U.S. B-17 bomber being shot from rear with its wing on fire and explosion in its tail. Glimpse of head-on attack against B-17. Two Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft in flight. A lone U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber under attack. B-17 with piece of windshield missing and horizontal stabilizer shot away. B-17 bomber formation under attack from the rear. View of pilot and instruments inside German fighter plane. B-17 being shot to pieces in frontal attack. More attacks on formations of B-17s. German women in command post recording combat information on displays. Parachutes of American B-17 crew in sky. Captured U.S. fliers being escorted under guard, and one, with head bandaged, being questioned by German officers (English conversation is heard.) The flier says he is fine They ask another flier if he is wounded. He says only a twisted ankle. Temporary graves of dead American fliers, with wooden crosses and names on them, including one with name George J.Parker.
Initial scene shows German soldiers setting up a camera, in a camouflaged location, during World War 2. . Views from the water, of the White Cliffs of Dover, on the English Channel coast. Suddenly, a jet-propelled V-1 flying bomb is seen racing past the camera and disappearing in the distance. Next the camera focuses on another V-1 and tracks it. Its body, wings, and jet engine affixed to its top, are clearly seen. as are pulses of flame from its engine. Another V-1 launches from near the camera and flashes past, disappearing in the distance. The final scene shows a V-1 in flight, even clearer than the earlier views. (Note: The V-1 was also known as a buzz bomb or doodle bug was the first cruise missile used in wartime.)
Gretl Braun, sister of Eva Braun (Hitler's companion) on a snowy street with friends.One friend has a muzzled dog with him. One of the friends puts a leash on her dachshund dog. Later, Eva Braun is seen picking up the Dachshund dog and singing to it.
Hitler Madchen, the female branch of the Hitler Youth, attends various classes in a field. Women doing calisthenics. They perform hooping. The Nazi flag flies from a pole. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler poses.
Paratroop training in the German army early during World War II. German Army paratroopers in training seen on a large field with parachutes, learning to stand and control an open parachute after landing. German Army troops marching and in drills for infantry training in addition to paratrooper duties. A column of German soldiers marching in formation. A view of several German soldiers goosestep march with very high steps in front of a parked Junkers Ju 52 aircraft on an airfield. Parachute trainers use different training methods and drills to prepare soldiers for jumping out of aircraft, descending on parachute, and landing safely on the ground.
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