Air and rail travel in Germany before World War II. View of snow-covered mountains and clouds. Flying above them is a German Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 trimotor passenger airplane. It is named "Hans Wende" and displays registration "D-ADER" on its fuselage, and a swastika on its tail. Closeup of the forward part of the aircraft. View of passengers inside the cabin, enjoying the views out their windows. Body of water below. A passenger lights a cigar, and smokes. Another swings a typewriter down from the back of seat in front of her and prepares to type something. Views out plane's window behind left wing showing flaps slightly extended and as plane banks in right turn. Quick pan across copilot's position and back, showing corrugated metal on right wing. The city of Berlin is seen below. Passengers preparing to land. Aerial views of pre-war city of Berlin, from behind right wing, as aircraft descends to land. "Berlin" spelled out in large letters on ground at the airport, visible from the air. Aerial view of various buildings and landmarks, including the Berliner Dom (largest church in the city) seen below. The Lustgarten, two bridges leading to the Unter Den Linden boulevard below, with cars moving on it. The Zeughaus (Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin) and other buildings are seen along Unter Den Linden. As the aircraft passes over the Brandenburg Gate and forested park, below, the scene shifts to a zoom-in on the gate and transitions to a ground view of it with cars driving through the gate. Closeup of the “Quadriga” statue atop the gate, depicting the goddess of victory driving a chariot pulled by four horses. Camera moves through the gate and shows policemen, in white uniforms, directing traffic, including double-decker buses. Brief glimpse of the Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern 1, 10557 Berlin, Germany) on the Königsplatz across from the Reichstag. Pedestrians walking and trams passing along the street. Sightseeing bus carrying passengers along the road. View of the passengers inside the moving bus and the guide explaining the sights and landmarks of Berlin. They pass the Neue Wache war memorial. Scene shifts to a railroad train traveling in the city and rising up to an elevated track that passes through a building. View as the train approaches and passes through an elevated station. Brief view of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (suspended railway). View of a German high-speed passenger train seen as it passes a bridge. Passengers relaxing inside the train. Some are eating and drinking. Several views of trains moving at high speed. Train signals in action along the railways.
A condensed history of Germany from the first World War through the rise of Hitler and the 3rd Reich, prior to World War II. From the Nazi German perspective, 'Sieg Im Westen' depicts German activities during and after World War 1. German troops take an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler. The Alpine landscapes, the Rhine and the Cologne Cathedral. An animation of the German frontiers in Bismarck's time. Interior and exterior scenes of the Ruhr industrial area. View of the Hamburg Harbor. Two German soldiers in Prewar uniforms on honor duty as sentries. A German prewar naval vessel or navy ship. An animation of the extent of World War I fighting beyond German borders and ending with the presentation of situation on November 9th , 1918. Scenes of World War I fighting, with many explosions and dirt flying upward on battlefields in World War I, and view of German soldiers in trench carefully looking out towards "no man's land". An animation of World War I fighting. Paul Von Hindenburg, a German General and his deputy, General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, at a headquarters. Signatures in the Versailles Treaty. An animation depicts the creation of the Polish Corridor. Demilitarization and disarmament activities of German factory areas. World War I German fighter planes are dismantled and wrecked. Labor strike riots and communist rebellion in Berlin with fights in front of the Brandenburg Gate. French occupation of Ruhr area. German postwar hyperinflation. German workers getting books stamped at a payroll office. Hyperinflation demonstrated with various German monetary notes growing in face value, superimposed on a spinning roulette wheel. Types of German inflation money during post-war collapse of economy in Germany. Adolf Hitler addressing a crowd. Storm troopers in regimental parade formations.
Wrecked railroads, Coal mines, power plants and factories being rebuilt and rehabilitated in Germany after World War 2. Railroad trains moving on tracks in Germany soon after World War 2. German civilian workers repair rails and tracks destroyed by Allied bombers. German workers in a tire factory build railway and automobile tires, in Munich. Trucks manufactured at a truck factory drive out of the factory. People lined to see some of the items produced for export. British occupied Ruhr Valley. Wrecked Krupp factories in Ruhr Valley. A German steel smelting plant in operation, workers pour molten steel. Coal cars leave Ruhr Valley. Animated charts show production and export of coal during 1937 and 1946. German miners enter and leave mines. Miners eat and take half of their food out to German children.
Industrial, agricultural and civil rebuilding of Germany after World War II. State Department building in Washington DC. Secretory of States, James F. Byrnes dictates to secretary. General Luicius D Clay speaks to the members of British Occupational government. Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov and James F. Byrnes pose for a group photograph. German farmers in an agricultural field. Men and woman plow farm by horse cart. Worker watches a factory kiln with molten metal. Cavaliers of American Military Police on horse back patrol on the streets in Germany with a destroyed cathedral in the background. They cross a bridge with sign Herkules Bridge. German workers make farm equipment and a German family with young children eats a meal.
German Navy or Kriegsmarine Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz at a military recognition ceremony in Germany circa 1928. Von Tirpitz stands with a cane. He acknowledges the crowd gathered. Other German military officers stand by. In a flashback scene from World War I, German U-boat submarine SM U-35 seen in Mediterranean sea as waves crash over the bow. Surface torpedo tube. Steam transport ship being hit and sinks during Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare campaign.
A large field in Germany, filled with American tanks and armored vehicles. Closeup rear view of tank driver in turret of American M36 tank destroyer (rear view). More U.S. Army armored vehicles moving during maneuvers along roads in Germany. Closeups, from front and rear, of U.S. soldier in turret of one. American soldiers preparing a mortar for firing. Soldiers prepare an Honest John surface to surface missile for launch. Supporting vehicles contain launching equipment, including including rail of tubular steel. Next, soldiers stand next to the missile with its launching rail raised slightly. Closeup of soldiers atop the missile making adjustments. The missile is launched with fiery wake. American soldiers launch and board small boats, powered with outboard motors, to cross a river during their maneuvers. They arrive at a river bank and climb it. Complete change of scene German commercial industrial activity. ships are seen in a harbor. On the shore in the background are numerous cargo handling cranes and other equipment. View, from floating dock, of passenger liner being towed by a tugboat. Views of slips lined with cargo-handling cranes. A large ship docked next to cranes and other equipment. Steam rising from a large funnel. Workers enter a steel mill. Inside the plant, men work with molten steel. Outdoors men are seen fabricating something from steel sheets. A large machine shop is seen not in operation except for a supervisor instructing a trainee. Views of a German Isetta microcar leaving the factory. A dozen new Isetta cars parked in factory lot. Complete change of scene, again. German farmers (men and women) are seen raking a field using hand implements. A threshing machine is operating. A mother and small son churning butter with wooden hand implements in their kitchen. A German family seated all together at a meal. West Germans gathered at an amusement park with a ride called: "Auto Scooter," and a merry go round behind them. They watch a team of decorated horses pulling a wagon filled with beer barrels, on which women in traditional country costumes ride. The barrels bear the Crown and HB mark of the Hofbräu München beer company. Women beer hall employees in serving uniforms raise beer mugs as they ride a decorated wagon. In a Munich street, two persons dressed as beer mugs parade followed by Bakers in working white uniforms carrying giant facsimile pretzels and roast turkeys. Next, are a contingent of men dressed as dignitaries of the past. The parade passes the Schottenhamel Festhalle. Camera focuses on amusement park patrons enjoying various rides. A couple sits at an outdoor table drinking mugs of beer.
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