As German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter hovers over a snow covered field, a man climbs down a ladder from the helicopter and then back up again. The helicopter in flight with a vehicle suspended on its sling. The helicopter picks up an airplane fuselage and flies away with it. The helicopter lands, without any cargo, at a field.
Two girls practice gymnastics in garden. Same girls, nieces of Arthur Kannenberg, pose near headlights of Mercedes car and hold out a small Nazi flag mounted near the headlights. (The older girl is likely Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, born March 5, 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark). Arthur Kannenberg arrives and kisses the girls. In next scene, the two girls and a third, younger girl, present a bouquet of flowers to their grandfather on his 73rd birthday. Their grandmother stands next to them. The grandmother and the girls walk along a sidewalk and are met by another man and woman, possibly the girls's parents, outside the Villa Luise. Camera pans upward showing identifying sign on the building.
U.S. infantrymen in a German town during World War II. U.S. troops and vehicles move along a cobblestone street. Group of German women stand in circle on sidewalk, not looking up. American soldiers standing about. U.S. infantrymen get into a truck which is towing a piece of field artillery through a forested area.
View of a semi-underground bunker located in the western Nazi German defense fortification line called the “Siegfried Line” before World War 2. View of farmlands near the Siegfried Line. Snow covered bunkers and pillboxes in the Siegfried Line as seen in aerial view.
Title card says “Flakzielgerät 76 V 102 Schnittautnahmen 17.8.1943” (“Anti-aircraft target device 76 V 102 cut recordings 08/17/1943” in English). World War II V-1 glide bomb launches after Argus engine start. View of exit point of Walter catapult. Entire launch ramp shown as camera pans to surface of launch ramp.
Title card says “Geheime Kommandosache” (“Secret commando operation” in English). “Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe Karlshagen” (“Test site of the Air Force Karlshagen” in English). Information on “Flakzielgerät 76 Ohne Zünder” (“Flak target device 76 No Detonator” in English). View of V-1 flying bomb without wings attached and no engine running being released at an altitude of 2000 meters. Unstable V-1 buzz bomb falls to ground and explodes during World War II.
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