Two Truckloads of Prussian soldiers drive into the Rhineland city of Koblenz to reinforce it during World War 1. They park near a shuttered Merchant hall and climb down to the street. They assemble and pose for the camera standing around a machine gun set up on the pavement. Scene shifts to view of an old fort partially destroyed.
Snow-covered hills at Berchtesgaden. Inside a building, Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union) with his General staff. Among others present are, General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; Colonel General Franz Halder and Colonel General Ludwig Beck. Animated map shows planned offensive against the Soviet Union and thence through the Caucauses and into Mideast oil fields. Further grand schemes are illustrated. Ocean supply lines needing to be choked off at Murmansk, Russia, and in the Mediterranean are diagrammed. German U-boat bases are shown on the map. View of a U-boat displaying skull and cross bones on conning tower. U-boat reinforced concrete pens. Map showing U-boat missions.
Views of what Eva Braun, Hitler's companion,calls,"our little house," in Munich suburbs. A patio with flowers. Views of the back garden. Her mother, Franziska, plays with Hitler's German Shepherd, Blondi, as the dog tries to bite a stream of water from a garden hose. Eva's father,Friedrich,"Fritz," in German Army uniform, relaxing in a chair at the back of the yard. View of the neighborhood. Eva playing ping pong. Eva, in a swim suit, playing with the garden hose and Blondi, the dog. Eva petting a boxer dog. Eva's father, Fritz, in uniform, playing with Blondi and a dachshund dog.A woman friend talking to Braun sisters, Eva and Gretl, sitting on a porch under an awning. A German officer sitting next to Franziska Braun, while her husband, Fritz, converses with a woman in background.The three Braun sisters, Eva, Ilse, and Gretl, conversing by the awning.
German Navy officers and sailors (including Walter Gerhold, who won the Knight's Cross for his one man mini-submarine [Neger] attack on the Polish Cruiser Dragon in July 1944) arrive by train and are greeted by affiliated Hitler youth in Berlin, during World War 2. Accompanied by a contingent of Navy-related Hitler youth boys, they board a bus and are waved at by a group of Hitler youth girls, as they depart. View inside the bus of a young Kriegsmarine (Navy) officer sitting with admiring Hitler youth in Navy-style uniforms. Next they are seen meeting the National German Youth Leader (Reichsjugendleiter) Artur Axmann, in uniform. One of the boys is then fitted out in flotation gear,helmet, and breathing apparatus of a Marder human torpedo operator. The boys gather around a Marder, one-man submarine. Closeup of some boys shows "11/184 Kiel,"on their hats, indicating the Youth unit to which they belong. The boy dressed in operators gear, now sits in the cockpit of the Marder submarine. A sailor shows him how to aim it. Those gathered around, tap on the plexiglass cockpit of the submarine. An experienced sailor tells the boys about using such a weapon against English ships and amuses them with personal stories.
The body of a Hitler doppelganger (body double) in ruins near a bunker in Berlin. Soviet officers and cameramen take photos of the doppelganger body. The body of a Nazi officer is exposed from beneath a sheet and examined (body appears to be German General Hans Krebs).
United States infantrymen find Adolf Hitler’s former cell in Landsberg Prison during World War 2. View of Landsberg Prison from across Hindenburgring street (Hindenburgring 12 · 86899 Landsberg am Lech). A United States army jeep is parked nearby. White flags of surrender from two prison windows. Wrecked barbed wire fencing flattened to ground and other ruins next to watch tower near Landsberg Prison. United States soldiers look through bedding and inspect memorabilia inside prison cell formerly belonging to Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment after the failed Beer Hall Putsch. A portrait of Adolf Hitler and a Nazi flag hang on the wall of the infamous cell. A soldier runs finger through entries in a logbook, points to portrait of Adolf Hitler and Nazi flag. A man standing outside Lansberg prison points to the window of Hitler's cell.
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