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Crown Prince Friederich Wilhelm of Germany is interviewed by an American reporter in Salzburg, Austria
Crown Prince of Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst, being interviewed by an American reporter. Asked about unemployment in Europe, he blames the Treaty of Versailles and opines that until the Treaty conditions are fundamentally changed there will be no peace and no quiet, commercially or economically, in Europe. Questioned about the future of Germany, the crown Prince affirms his confidence in Germany's future, suggesting that if America had not entered the war, Germany would have defeated the Allies. The interviewer asks if he had ever visited America. He responds that he had hoped to go for the Olympic games, but the political conditions prevented him from leaving Germany.
The German Anschluss. Huge crowds cheer as German troops occupy Austrian cities.
The Anschluss, German occupation of Austria, prior to World War II. Huge crowds gather and cheer in the streets of Salzburg and Graz, as German troops enter. German flags flutter on flag poles. Soldiers march along the streets and receive enthusiastic welcome.
Scenes soon after liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.
View of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Cremation ovens used to execute the prisoners. A German guard held at gun point by the American troops. Liberated American speaks, surrounded by a group of prisoners. He is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack H. Taylor of Hollywood, California. Filmed by Lt. Col. George C. Stevens, he says that in October 1944 he was the first allied officer to drop into Austria. He says he was captured December 1, 1944 by the Gestapo, and severely beaten. He details his imprisonment time in Austria and then at Mauthausen. He shows insignia and dog tags of two American soldiers who were executed in a gas chamber of the camp by the Germans. He details the multiple methods used by the Germans to kill prisoners, including shooting, gas chamber, beating, exposure in the snow for 48 hours with cold water thrown on them, starvation, dogs, and pushing off a hundred foot cliff. He thanks the American 11th Armored Division for rescuing them. (World War II period).
Training film for U.S. troops with the Army of occupation in Germany after world War II
Opens with bell tolling Victory against Germany in World War II. Next, a slate reads: "Victory Leads to Peace," and a farmer is seen with cattle pulling a plow. But narrator says "the problem now is future peace," and a map of Germany is shown overlaid with "Your Job in Germany." A cartoon of a soldier is superimposed on the map, along with one of a World War 1 American soldier and a figure of possible future soldier with similar mission. Camera focuses on parts of German aircraft in a jumbled heap. Closeups of weary defeated German soldiers at end ot World War II. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler speaking and haranguing an audience from a podium in an animated and forceful way. Swastika flags displayed from houses in a quaint German town. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, at a microphone. Glimpse of a German concentration camp. But as they appear, each of the Nazi elements promptly disappears, showing the scenes without such Nazi symbols and persons. Skeleton remains of bombed buildings. Flower displays. Bucolic German rural countryside and quaint old villages in peaceful settings. Camera focuses on a book titled "German History." Chapter I, titled "Blood and Iron," shows Image of Otto von Bismarck. German troops march in a parade. Narrator states that "under Bismarck, the German empire was built." (He formed the German Empire in 1871, unifying Germany with himself as Imperial Chancellor, while retaining control of Prussia at the same time.) The film shows mounted German lancers as it alludes to Bismarck's campaigns against Denmark in 1867; Austria in 1866; and France, in 1870. Germany's leaders celebrating its status, in 1871, as the mightiest power in Europe. Troops marching and girls dancing nearby. Farmers plowing field with a horse and cow. Classic peaceful rural alpine scenes with local people in agricultural pursuits. A group of local German musicians playing folk music as village people dance outdoors. Back to the book, Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown on Chapter 2, entitled: "Deutschland über Alles." Gathering of German soldiers in Pickelhaube (spiked helmets). A German Big Bertha howitzer firing. German troops marching against Serbia; Russia; and France (with view of war damaged French cathedral). German invasion of Belgium (with view of clock tower resting in rubble). German troops seen in Italy, walking past battle-damaged buildings. German Zeppelin dropping bombs on British targets and view of bombed out London neighborhood. Next scene shows a capsized ship with survivors running across its hull. Film slate labels the scene as United States, as if it is a U.S. ship attacked by Germany. (Actually, it is the Austro-Hungarian Battleship, SMS Szent Istvan, torpedoed, by Italian torpedo boats, during World War I.) Next, American soldiers in trench are seen going "over the top" and into "no man's land" on the western front of World War 1. Glimpse through a window of Kaiser Wilhelm II, after defeat of Germany, in 1918. View of Germans in a Beer Garden. Picturesque view of German town. A German orchestra performing. American soldiers marching out of Germany, with flags waving. Back to the history book,as chapter III is revealed, entitled "Today Germany, tomorrow, the world," and featuring Adolf Hitler. German troops invading Austria (where a civilian lies dead on the ground). German troops entering Czechoslovakia (where local people in tears render the Nazi salute). They march into Poland (where a girl weeps over someone, not seen, on the ground). They march into France (where a wounded, bandaged child cries in a bed). Next, is a scene from England, where a British child victim of bombing lies dead in the remains of a shelter. German troops invading Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and Russia (where a woman tries to rouse a dead woman). They invade Yugoslavia (where women sit near coffins of children) and Greece (where a woman rescues a naked child). A U.S. merchant ship explodes after being torpedoed by a German submarine (unseen). Scenes of destruction with people plucking dead victims from rubble of buildings. American troops invading Normandy, France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Several American soldiers fall to German gunfire on the beach. Wounded American soldiers being transported in jeeps on the battlefield and being placed on landing craft for evacuation. Americans walking past huge piles of destroyed aircraft parts. A landing craft filled with wounded American soldiers. American wounded and dead on a battlefield. Sailors abandoning a burning American ship by jumping into the sea. A sailor picked up in a life boat. A wounded American soldier being dragged from the beachhead at Normandy. Various wounds being treated by U.S. Medical Corps personnel. More scenes of American wounded being moved on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to German people folk dancing. Film concludes with question marks about the future.
Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein and his bride Gretl Braun with guests after their wedding in Berchtesgaden, Germany.
Wedding reception of Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein and Gretl Braun, sister of Eva Braun, held in Berchtesgaden, Germany after a civil ceremony in Salzburg. A car arrives and Gretl Braun Fegelein exits the car. She enters a building with a giant doorway at the Eagles Nest (Kehlsteinhaus, 83471 Berchtesgaden, Germany) in Berchtesgaden and looks at herself in a mirror. She does a touch up. She has a drink then enters a hall and greet various people at a wedding reception. The bride greets and kisses her sister, Eva Braun, who was German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's companion. Eva's mother Fanny Braun holding flowers. Gretl greets various Nazi officers and receives many flowers. Eva comes with a girl dressed as a cupid. Gretl and Eva talk to the young girl. Gretl and her new husband Hermann Fegelein.
Hermann Fegelein and his new bride Gretl Braun at their Eagles Nest wedding reception and with Hitler at the Berghof.
Scenes from wedding reception(s) of German Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein and Gretl Braun (sister of Eva Braun) at the Eagles Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, following a civil wedding ceremony in Salzburg. Female cooks prepare food for Gretl and Hermann's wedding reception. A cook tastes the food. Guests seated around a large table as they eat a meal. Martin Bormann talking to the newlyweds Hermann Fegelein and Gretl Braun. Scene changes to the Great Hall in the Berghof where Gretl and General Hermann Fegelein pose with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and speak to him.
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