Analysis of the Germany's labor force, military strength and effects of World War II on manpower. German soldiers march. Men work in factory on equipment and machinery. Women work in factory. A cemetery of World War 1 soldiers in Germany. Narrator explains how loss of man power from world War 1 deaths, and subsequent lower birth rate leads to war production worker needs being filled by many young German women and even German boys and girls working in industrial factories also. Wounded German soldiers being treated in field during World War 2. A map points Germany, Sudetenland and Austria. Graphs examine labor force by sex, age and military replacement availability; compare the labor force according to sex from 1939-1943; detail the increase of work force through the women part time workers and the veterans. Women weld equipment in a factory. Men do mining work. Narrator speaks of foreign workers (such as from Poland, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and how some now serve "under economic pressure and compulsion" (as forced labor or slave labor). Views of forced labor crews working digging earthworks. Laborers also work on building or repairing railroad stations and track work. Lines of prisoners of war, also used for labor, walk under German guard as lines of German uniformed troops walk in the opposite direction. Graphs compare the labor force in agriculture, industry, trade services, transport and government.
U.S. Army Air Force bombers attack Germany during World War II. View of U.S. P-51 Mustang aircraft in flight line at U.S. Air Base in England, United Kingdom. Aerial views of a formation of B-17 Flying Fortress planes and P-51 aircraft in flight over Germany. Bombs fall on German aircraft plants. Ruins of German aircraft plants after facing the bombings. Scene changes to show German war production workers building new Focke-Wulf aircraft (e.g., Fw 190) at production factory in Germany.
An interview with the pilot of a Heinkel He-111, the primary Luftwaffe medium bomber. The pilot standing in front of a military jeep parked outside a building.
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Douglas A-26 Invaders in formation. Closeup view from underneath of a Douglas A-26 in flight.
German atrocities during the World War II. General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley inspect atrocity scenes in German prison camps. Dead bodies. The Generals and the civilians enter into a room. Dead bodies piled in a heap. Gravediggers dig graves and take out remains of the bodies. Red Cross Flag flies at a concentration camp. The U.S. Medical troops help the people rescued from the camp. They lay an emaciated man on a stretcher. The man joins his hands. Rows of emaciated dead. German civilians march towards the camp. They carry dead bodies on wooden planks. Dead bodies in a mass grave.
United States B-24 Liberator, drops bombs on German targets during Second World War. Bombs impact as B-24 goes into a dive. American P-47 aircraft in aerial action against German fighters. German ME-109 and ME-110 being shot down explode in mid air.
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