Air Force airplanes of the Fascist Republic of Italy return from a raid on Gibraltar during World War II. The airplanes in flight. Airmen and officials greet Italian pilots, in the service of Germany, as they deplane.They are decorated for their service. Torpedo bomber aces Marino Marini (with jumpsuit) and Carlo Faggioni (with white beret) are visible.
The Germans dig defensive positions on the eastern border of Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth, Reich Labor Service units and Baltic people dig defensive trenches on Germany's eastern border. View of Hitler youth lined up with shovels ready to fall out and dig. Hitler youth ride to the eastern front trench digging site on bicycles while holding shovels. At the trenches, men and women march carrying shovels and dig defensive positions. Mass hand digging effort underway by men and women and Hitler youth. Ground and aerial views of the trenches being dug. Wide aerial view of long line of jagged defensive trenches separating German held areas from the front with the Soviet Russian forces. English overlay narration describes difficult working conditions for the Baltic forced laborers, virtually slave labor, with poor working and living conditions.
German SS (Schutzstaffel) troops advance in the Soviet Union during World War II. Camouflaged infantry, Hummel SP artillery and Panther tanks of SS.Pz.Rgt.5 Wiking move up in the Soviet Union. The infantry, protected by tanks and artillery, advances through a blazing village and across a field. Bolshevik prisoners are marched by SS (Schutzstaffel) troops. Demolished enemy armor.
A film dramatizes a German submarine on patrol in the North Sea during World War II. Activities aboard the submarine during an attack shows German soldiers aboard the submarine looking through binoculars. German Navy personnel at various machines and equipment aboard the submarine. View of gauges. A torpedo is launched from the submarine. Crews on the deck of the submarine.
German troops fight enemy in San Marino during World War II. A map highlights the Italian Front and the advance of German troops. German heavy artillery shell enemy positions and troops dynamite trees to block roads. Soldiers of the Hitler Youth reviewed and decorated by leader of the Hitler Youth, Artur Axmann.
German troops fight the Allied forces in the Netherlands during World War 2. Animated map locates Arnhem and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. German troops fire at British parachutists and gliders as they descend from their transport aircraft. Afterwards they pursue and engage those who made it safely to the ground. Scattered Allied equipment, dead bodies and downed gliders. Burning gliders. Allied aircraft shot down and crashing. British prisoners of war seated in a group in a meadow.
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