A snow-covered road leading to a German Aeronautical test station in the late 1930s, before World War 2. Pine trees surround both sides of the road. Camera shows the gate and front door of the test station. The Nazi Swastika adorns top of front door. An almost empty room with a bust statue on display. A hangar or warehouse-like building inside the test station. German scientists setting up radio machines. A scientist wearing headphones adjusts dial control of machine. Another scientist stands on top of the radio directional finding network.
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.
Film camera man operates a large camera on a tripod. View of many seals on the German Coast, 1940, during WW2. Two men use shovels to dig a viewing position on the beach for their camera. Close up of seals swimming in the water. A cameraman lays on the shore, fully clothed, and imitates the movements and sounds of a seal in order to lure a seal for documentation. A baby seal approaches the man, who is rocking back and forth on the sand. Close up of the baby seal on the sand with the cameraman. Shot of a seal in the water. The small seal quickly scoots back toward the water and swims to a larger seal. The seals do turns in the water. Two cameraman operate their camera on a tripod in water up to their knees. Close up of a small seal nursing. Seal lays on the beach pawing its face and splaying out its body in the sun. Close up of the whiskered seal as it yawns and closes its eyes. From a Spanish newsreel.
A group of German boys and teenagers assist the war effort by helping on farms in 1940, during WW2. They walk along a field holding baskets and farming tools. A line of of boys on their knees work to harvest potatoes on a farm using digging forks. The boys, wearing civilian clothing, sing and whistle as they work. Close ups of boys raking the ground and picking the potatoes by hand, placing them into baskets. The boys walk through the field with full baskets and dump them into a larger pile of potatoes. From a Spanish newsreel.
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