A German documentary about German U-boats attacking enemy ships in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. A German U-boat underway in Atlantic ocean or North Sea Atlantic. The U-boat surfaces and goes underwater. Interiors of the U-boat showing German Navy personnel at work. An enemy ship is sunk by the Germany U-boat torpedo attacks.
Film shows map of the Ardennes region of Germany and Belgium. In the dark of night, German artillery and rockets are seen being launched against Allied forces in a counter offensive in the Ardennes during World War 2. In daylight, clouds of dark smoke lay across the horizon partially obscuring the rising sun. A German officer signals for artillery to fire, and a heavy gun barrel is seen recoiling as it fires. Shells exploding in the distance. German gunners firing an LeFH 18 howitzer hidden under branches of foliage. Rockets launchers (Nebelwerfers) firing. Explosions in the distance. German troops in trenches. Several views of howitzers firing. American prisoners marching past Dragons Teeth antitank barriers at the Ziegfried line (Western Wall). German soldiers riding on Stug III Ausf. F tank destroyers. A half track (Sd.Kfz.251) passing a line of American prisoners walking in the opposite direction at side of muddy road with their hands over their heads. View from the rear of the U.S. soldiers escorted by German soldiers. German infantry advancing single file along the side of a road. Some carry panzerfaust anti tank weapons. Others carry MG 42 machine guns and belt ammunition. View from rear of the German infantry entering woods. Dead American soldiers lying in a group in bluff overlooking a body of water. American steel helmets scattered on the ground. More views of dead U.S. soldiers.
At start of film, German infantry and supplies are seen moving in large barges, along a river in Germany, during World War 2. Closeups of the troops looking tired and bored. Many of them are sleeping on the barges. Closeups of several asleep. Scene changes showing troops on the camera barge waving at another passing barge carrying some soldiers and many containers of war materiel and supplies. Connected to it's stern is a small barge carrying several horses and two soldiers. View of troops disembarking from a barge and stepping onto a dock, each carrying their personal small arms and equipment. Complete change of scene shows a small boy grooming a horse. A log cabin, trees, and a body of water are in the near background. A youthful cavalryman approaches the boy and gives him a dispatch to be carried. They exchange old-fashioned hand salutes. Next, the boy carries a large saddle and places it on the horse. Then, climbing over the cavalryman (who is on his knees) the boy mounts the horse. The cavalryman hands him the dispatch and they exchange salutes, again. Closeup of the little boy astride the horse, holding the reins and the papers to be delivered. View of the boy riding rapidly without the dispatches. He stops and slides down off the horses back. He is next seen being hugged by two women and a soldier in uniform. They appear to be a happy family. Closeup of the smiling boy with the two women.
Film begins showing two German soldiers in an established log lined firing position at an artillery training facility in Germany during World War 2. One is using a periscopic telescope. Closeup of a soldier hurrying along a log-lined trench toward a communication center. He picks up a field telephone that is next seen ringing and picked up at another communication center manned by several German officers. One takes the phone call. Scene shifts to an artillery crew at a log-lined gun emplacement where they attend to a 10.5cm artillery piece. Closeup of soldier signalling for guns to fire. Shells exploding in the distance. Crew at another gun emplacement hold their ears as their gun fires. Many more views of guns firing and smoke filling the air.
Various weapons and ammunition found inside a bunker in the Siegfried Line in Nazi Germany. Camera shows neatly-arranged rifles, artillery, artillery shells, and cannons inside a bunker. Long lines of light infantry artillery in storage including Pak 36 (Panzerabwehrkanone 36) is a 3.7 cm caliber German anti-tank guns and German le IG G18 75mm infantry support guns. Rows of cannons in storage and many shells. Sign says “Sechsscharten Turm” (German: “Six-slot tower”). German solders pull chains to lift armament up from storage. Soldier push a rail cart full of artillery shells into an elevator after track signal changes to indicate entrance clear. German soldiers aim artillery with cannon in foreground inside bunker. POV aiming cannon from inside German bunker through pillbox embrasure to outside. Various German artillery pieces moving into aiming position through embrasure as seen from outside bunker pillboxes. German soldiers marching into a bunker. View of Dragon's teeth tank barriers arranged on the Siegfried Line.
German Nazi soldiers ride underground railroad small gauge train cars inside bunker tunnel in the Siegfried Line in western Germany before World War II. Other German soldiers march alongside soldiers in rail cars. Soldiers enter an elevator while others take stairs alongside. Elevator door closes and soldiers seen rising to upper bunker areas. POV inside bunker elevator as it passes German troops on stairs. Bunker door sign reads “Unterk. Räume," which is German for "sub spaces," German soldiers smoke cigarettes and socialize together inside a dormitory room in the bunker.
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