Views of an unfinished underground German factory found after World War 2, near Muehldorf (Muhldorf) am Inn, east of Munich. It was intended to manufacture Me 262 jet aircraft engines and parts. A person walks out of the underground factory site. A truck moves on a road. Large equipment working. Construction materials and equipment at work. Small houses built.
Concentration camp scenes used in evidence during post-war World War 2 prosecution of Nazi war criminals. A Nazi concentration camp. U.S. troops standing outside a building. Medics treat and carry emaciated prisoners from a camp. A U.S. Naval officer, prisoner at a camp, is interviewed. He speaks about execution of U.S. prisoners of war and describes various atrocities and means used to kill prisoners. Man shows a club with barbed wire on it used to beat prisoners. View of dead bodies of prisoners in rail car under layer of snow. Dead bodies of people piled up on the ground.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel visits with Mrs. Goebbels and her children, during a period between command assignments, during World War II. Rommel, standing with aides, in the garden of the Goebbels home in Schwanenwerder, Berlin, smiles as he watches the Goebbels children at play. Magda Goebbels, wife of Propaganda Minister Joseph Paul Goebbels, with her children gathered around a slide in the yard. Rommel watches as Magda helps her youngest daughter, Heidrun, down the slide using a wheeled board and help from another daughter. Field Marshal Rommel looks on and smiles. Rommel along with Magda, return to the house, holding hands with the children. Another view of the activities around the slide. Rommel examines the wheeled board with Mrs. Goebbels, who then helps Heidrun ride it down the slide. Marshal Rommel and Magda Goebbels hold hands with her daughters as they return along a path to the house.
A film dramatizes the rise of Nazi party and corresponding life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. A Nazi flag being hoisted. A German couple seated. Two men talk in a street. A Nazi brownshirt harangues civilians on a street. People listen to him and do not unite to object. Karl, a farmer, listens. He tills a piece of land. Nazi officers close down a shop. A man works in an ammunition factory as a war production worker. He returns home from work. His children are eating food. German equipment and troops on advance. The ammunition factory worker joins the German Army and leaves for the war front. He kisses his wife as he bids goodbye. German troops loaded onto a truck advance. Artillery is fired and infantry advances ahead. German troops fight against the Allies in Stalingrad, Soviet Union and Normandy, France.
A woman and a man singing a duet on stage, as they pretend to be in a german warplane,flying over parts of Europe during World War 1. Below their staged airplane the set includes paintings of the Eiffel Tower, a Dutch windmill and other features of European countries. The programs for various musical theater presentations are shown, including one entitled "Die Gulasch Kanone" (The Field Kitchen), a play with music in three acts. A scene from another production is seen, with A newly wedded couple walking to a horse drawn carriage. Women standing near the carriage serenade the couple and spread flower petals at their feet. They enter the carriage.
The mobilization and deployment of the German Army early in World War I. German soldiers stand with baggage and supplies. Horse drawn carts loaded with supplies. Garlanded trucks leave Berlin carrying newly recruited soldiers. Officers on horses and horse drawn carts ride past a cheering crowd. The soldiers on a railroad station before leaving for war. The cavalry march. German soldiers wave to their relatives from a train before departing for war front. People on platform and the band playing. Verdun : Supplies on rail road cars. Soldiers near a train.
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