German aeronautical scientists testing radio directional finding network, shortly before World War 2. Men opening partition slide of a barn that serves as their laboratory. Small dish-shaped antenna in barn and large search antenna on ground. The two scientists in white lab coats set up radio equipment. Towers and snow-covered field in the background. Wire hanging over a scientist setting up radio. A biplane aircraft marked “DEUTSCHE LUFTREEDEREI (German Air Transport)”, with rear cockpit enclosed. A Junkers W 33 (D-1957) transport aircraft with wheel gear instead of floats carrying electronic gear. The Junkers W 33 has visible external antenna. Aerial view of the Junkers W 33 in flight. Two men with radio antenna of a Dornier Do X flying boat. Dornier Do X flying boat aircraft in water is seen as it taxis away from dock and then in flight low over water.
German technicians inspect a large machine cylinder inside a German Aeronautical materials testing laboratory, pre World War 2. An engine being lowered on the altitude test bench. Technicians inspect various gauges. Gauges measuring air pressure while testing an engine.
German Red Cross women packing Christmas gifts for German soldiers in World War II. A Christmas card, Christmas decorations, and gifts for soldiers on the table. German soldiers in trenches in the frontlines receive letters from home. Postal mail call in a wooded area. A German soldier reads a letter and looks at a photograph of a woman. Allied invasion fleet underway for the D-Day landings in Normandy. A German tank crosses a bridge. Abandoned Allied trucks and wreckage from D-Day. An Allied ship lists to starboard. Strong waves crashes into a wrecked pontoon causeway.
Bomb damage after the Battle of Berlin during World War II. Ruins of damaged buildings. Pedestrians walk on road. Civilians enter the subway entrance. Stones and bricks of bomb-damaged building lay past entrance of the Berlin U-Bahn subway. Sign above subway entrance displays a large letter "U". Beside it is a smaller sign that shows an arrow pointing to the entrance which says "Air Port Tempelhof". View of people of all ages descending stairs of subway.
A person pasting a poster on the door of Kottbuser Ufer synagogue announcing resuming of religious services. A man on a ladder fixing curtain, others bringing flowers,some of them fixing lights, bringing 'Torah'. The Jews put on the Tallis- a prayer shawl with ritually knotted fringe and recite the prayers. An American soldier offering prayers and GI talking with a German during the service. (World War II period).
Emaciated prisoners of the Nordhausen concentration camp are carried out of the prison. They are taken to ambulances by U.S. medics and Military Police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. The ambulances carrying victims leave prison area. (World War II period).
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