International Military Games under auspices of CISM (Conceil International Du Sports Militaire). View from a moving bus as it proceeds along an autobahn (highway) in Munich, Germany. About a dozen bluish colored flags are seen grouped in the space between the highway lanes. The view shifts to inside the bus, filled with military athletes in civilian clothes headed to the military olympics. The scenery outside is pleasant, with many green spaces and occasional housing units. The bus approaches a built-up area where another cluster of bluish flags is seen. The Olympiaturm (Olympic tower) marking the Olympiapark for the 1972 Olympic Summer Games, is seen out the bus window. (Note: those games will commence right after the CISM military games.)
Military athletes (in civilian clothes) sightseeing at Linderhof Palace, during their time in Germany for the International Military Games of the Conceil International Du Sports Militaire. They are assembled outside the Palace, on warm sunny day .A sign on the palace reads "English tours." View from a distance in the grounds shows beautiful woods and tall hedges of a formal garden surrounding a pond containing a gilded neptune fountain. Closeup of the fountain (not spraying). Statue of Venus and Cupid on a parapet. . View of the military athletes starting to move into the Palace, on the English-speaking tour. Other visitors strolling past a Neptune fountain with three horses in a semi-grotto on the grounds. Closeup of the fountain, with water flowing. The Golden Angel fountain in Western part of the Linderhof park.
Scenes from wedding reception(s) of German Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein and Gretl Braun (sister of Eva Braun) at the Eagles Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, following a civil wedding ceremony in Salzburg. Female cooks prepare food for Gretl and Hermann's wedding reception. A cook tastes the food. Guests seated around a large table as they eat a meal. Martin Bormann talking to the newlyweds Hermann Fegelein and Gretl Braun. Scene changes to the Great Hall in the Berghof where Gretl and General Hermann Fegelein pose with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and speak to him.
German Nazi Joseph Goebbels gives The Sportpalast speech (Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech at the Berlin Sportpalast in Germany during World War II. The Sportpalas (now demolished, erected at Potsdamer Straße 172) decorated with Nazi Swastikas. Banner on the wall reads “Totaler Krieg- Kürzester Krieg!”. Japanese officials in attendance. A high-ranking Nazi German military official. Spectators stand up and clap in unison. Women are also present in the crowd. Joseph Goebbels speaks in the podium. Joseph Goebbels extorts the crowd to participate in the war effort. Crowds perform the Nazi salute as they cheer on Goebbels’ speech. A woman, dressed as a nurse, gives the Nazi salute.
German Luftwaffe conduct flight tests in Peenemünde, Germany during World War II. German subtitles. Junkers 52 transport aircraft in the Luftwaffe test site in Peenemünde-West. The Junkers 52 (three engine, long wing model) transport aircraft takes off from the runway. The aircraft tows a glider. Junkers 52 take-off from left to right pulling behind the high wing glider. Camera follows in slow pan as the two aircraft take off towards right over wooded area.
Germany conducts static tests on the Junkers Ju-52 aircraft at the Peenemünde-West test site during World War II. Two medium sized Jato bottles on top of the Junkers 52 left wing ignite and throw behind a large stream of flame. The Junkers 52 aircraft stays stationary as static tests are being conducted to determine the thrust of the Jato units. The rear of the Junkers 52 transport plane shows the four Jato units, two on top of each wing. The Jato bottles ignite simultaneously. Smoke envelopes the surroundings. The four Jato bottles fire, throw out large flames behind. Jato bottles eventually burn out and flame disappears from the Jato outlets of the aircraft wings.
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