Peenemunde Rocket Development Center in Peenemünde, Usedom, Nazi Germany. A V-2 rocket erected on a platform at Prüfstand VII (Test Stand 7). The rocket is prepared to launch. Later soldiers and scientists examine explosion site in middle of P-7. They examine wreckage of rocket. Parts of rocket dispersed on ground. Smoke arises from ground. Personnel discussing failure of rocket. Prominent at end of clip is Wernher von Braun seen smoking and gesturing to cameraman. (World War II period).
An Eisfeld-Valier-Rak-1 sledge test driven in February, 1929 on the Eibsee lake, Bavaria, Germany. Men fit rocket boosters in the unmanned sledge. The sledge stands in snow. Spectators watch nearby. A man lights a fuse and steps away. Rockets ignite and propel the sledge across the lake surface with considerable fire and smoke. The experimenters run to the sledge and extinguish smoking rockets by throwing snow on them.
Robert G Storey addresses the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. He talks about the vast quantity of art objects, paintings, scuplutres, and stolen artwork confiscated by the German Nazis and presents the 39 volumes list of the seized art. Judges examine catalogues. Justice Robert Falco. Storey says that if all stolen art objects seized by the Nazis were catalogued they would fill 350 to 400 volumes.
Prosecutor Thomas Dodd addresses the Nuremberg Trials courtroom regarding a song allegedly published by Baldur Von Schirach for the Hitler Youth in Nuremberg, Germany. Mr Dodd reads from a document and questions Von Schirach about anti-religious, anti-clergy, anti-church songs published for Hitler Youth before and during World War 2. Mr Dodd presents the diary of Minister of Justice to Von Schirach. Dr Fritz Sauter and an unidentified U.S. officer give the diary to Von Schirach after the latter testified. Dr Sauter examines his client Von Schirach.
During Nuremberg Trials, United States Chief Prosecutor Robert H Jackson delivers a speech concerning the prosecution's case against certain organizations in the Nazi government in Nuremberg, Germany. Quoting the prosecutor, 'The work of these organizations was to incite a mob spirit in the German people.' Mr Jackson states that the SS killed five million Jews unmercifully and with malice. 'These crimes' he says 'with which we deal, are unprecedented; not only because of the large number of organizations which carried them out so methodically, but because of the large number of people who united their efforts to perpetrate them.'
German President Friedrich Ebert speaking in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, during a memorial ceremony honoring German war dead. Crowds surround the Victory Column or the Siegessäule (Großer Stern 1 10557 Berlin) and the Bismark memorial in front of the Reichstag.
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