Bundeswehr military exercise near Fulda, Germany. Camouflaged trucks loaded with soldiers move over cobblestone streets. Buildings on either side of the streets. German officers discuss the exercise with civilian officials. M-41 tanks loaded with soldiers advance along a road. A camouflaged tank moves through woods. Soldiers haul artillery. They load and fire artillery at edge of woods. Civilian officials observe from position in background. German soldier fires a mortar. German infantry take up positions on a grassy bluff. One fires a machine gun. No national markings of any kind appear on the weapons or equipment.
Ernst Hanfstaengl (known as "Putzi"; an early friend of Adolf Hitler) sitting in an apartment in Berlin, Germany, smoking a long tobacco pipe as he shares lunch and conversation with Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf and a woman (possibly Ingeborg von Wedel Helldorf?). He shows them a sculpture of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler by German sculptor Josef Thorak, whom he says the couple will meet later that morning. Close-up view of the bust of Hitler. Hanfstaengl plays the piano for the couple, introducing the song as one he wrote called "The Heart of Song." Behind him, on a book shelf, is a bust of Paul von Hindenburg and a photograph of Adolf Hitler.
Berlin chief of police, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf, in Berlin,Germany. Heinrich von Helldorf at his desk. He receives and signs a documen, and talks into a telephone.
German civilians, soldiers and Allied prisoners coming into U.S. lines in Grimma, Germany towards the end of World War 2. Large groups of German civilians, soldiers, and a few released Allied prisoners of war, cross a damaged bridge over the Mulde River and come into the U.S. lines.
U.S. 1st Army, 23rd Regiment, 2nd Division soldiers attack on Mechernich, Germany during World War 2. U.S. soldiers move along street. Civilians watch. Soldiers break down door of house and enter. Soldier directs civilians and German officers by wave of hand. Woman unlocks door of house and soldiers enter. German Army prisoners, including one who is a young boy soldier, being searched by soldiers. U.S. officer speaks with civilian.
U.S. 1st Army, 23rd Regiment, 2nd Division soldiers attack on Mechernich, Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers crossing field and entering Mechernich. Soldiers enter houses. Soldiers break window and climb into house. U.S. officers including Brigadier General Truman E Boudinot, Major General Maurice Rose and Brigadier General Doyle Hickey on the steps of cathedral in Cologne during its capture by U.S. 1st Army. Ruined buildings in surrounding area.
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