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Views of a crowded shopping street in Sweden, a supermarket checkout line, and scale model of city with Modernist Architecture
Scandinavia: View of a busy shopping street or urban mall area in Sweden. Sign on a shop front advertises "korv" (sausages). Three teenage young men, sporting Mod fashion, walk together in the shopping street. A couple walks together. Views of Scandinavian people in late 1960s and early 1970s Scandinavian and European fashions. A woman, wearing a printed mini dress, lining up to pay at a supermarket checkout counter. Cashier scans groceries with a Sweda cash register. Scale model of a city done in Modernist architecture. Closing credits.
German occupation, martial law, and Danish resistance in Denmark during World War II
Film about Denmark after the Nazi German occupying force declared martial law and state of war with Denmark, in 1943-44 during World War 2. It was made by Danes and smuggled out of Denmark during that period. Opens with view of a church building and flocks of birds. Views of German army troops marching into Copenhagen, Denmark on 9 April 1940. SS troops dressed in black, marching. German soldiers carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, goosestepping. A fire burning at site sabotaged by Danish resistance elements in 1943. Derailed trains carrying goods to Germany. Fire at a German factory. Danish workers with bicycles staging a strike in protest German measures in response to resistance actions. Danes gathered in outdoor observance memorializing those killed by the Germans. A shop owned by German sympathizers (Quislings) destroyed by other Danes. People gathered on street on 29 August 1943, when the occupying German forces attacked the remaining Danish garrison and declared martial law. Announcement posted in Danish on a wall. View of Danish Naval vessels ordered scuttled by the Danish Admiralty, including the coastal defense ship,Peder-Skram, seen in front of a large building, the submarine, Havfruen (not seen) and others seen sunk at docks in Copenhagen harbor. Bullet hole through a glass window. A week later, on Sunday, 5 September, 1943, a German Panzer light tank is seen moving on a street, as pedestrians go about their business in Copenhagen. German soldiers patrolling on a motorcycle with sidecar. A man holding his hands up as he is hustled through a crowd under arrest by a German in black uniform (possibly Gestapo or SS). Motorcycle driving through pedestrians on the sidewalk. Spectators line a fence by an open field near a building labeled "Badstue Badminton." One, a woman, speaks through the fence to a Danish soldier interned there. View of the quarters of the Royal Guard at Rosenborg, occupied by German soldiers and with Nazi flag flying above it. Civilian relatives of interned men wait outside army headquarters for news about them. A courtyard, during a mass funeral, is filled with memorial flower wreaths covering the coffins of Danish soldiers and civilians killed by the Germans. Camera focuses on a wreath from King Christian of Denmark, among the many others. Two German soldiers march up a path at the Royal Residence Amalienborg, where King Christian is arrested. Views from moving camera as Danish flags are seen flying all over the city of Copenhagen, on 26 September, 1943, to celebrate the King's 73rd Birthday. The major exception is the Nazi Gestapo headquarters in the "Shellhus" (the prewar Shell Oil offices) shown in isolation. Views of people moving their belongings on hand carts after their homes were taken over by Germans. The slogan in English, "Do it well and do it now,"is seen left by Danish resistance fighters where they sabotaged a German military installation.
Six thousand participants compete in the World's largest nordic ski race, the Vasaloppet, for 43rd consecutive year
More than six thousand participants battle it out in world's largest and longest ski race for 43rd consecutive year in Sweden. The nordic or cross-country skiers seen starting the Vasaloppet race and during the 56 mile race. In between the race participants have refreshments.
Montage of Swedish military preparedness activities in World War II
Film opens with brief glimpse of Swedish soldiers (wearing M21 steel helmets) rushing to take positions in a defensive trench during World War 2. Scene shifts to infantry in combat gear, including shouldered blanket rolls, as they demonstrate ability to rapidly take up defensive positions. (Numerous automobiles parked in the background, indicating this is a demonstration.) Scene shifts to coastal defenses in Sweden, where heavy guns are seen firing from underground fortifications near a coastline. Swedish troops (wearing M37 steel helmets) firing a Browning M17 water-cooled machine gun from a protected position. Swedish troops (in M21 helmets) firing double-mounted Kulspruta m/36 water-cooled 8mm machine gun (modified Browning design dual mounted). Pattern of bullets splashing near floating targets offshore. Glimpse of a 29/33 M. 80mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Biplanes: Swedish J8 Gloster Gladiator MK I bi-wing pursuit aircraft seen flying low in formation over a grass field. Swedish T3 aircraft in formation. (These are Junkers Ju 86 K-13 aircraft built by SAAB, under license, and converted to torpedo bombers. They are flown by Swedish Wing F 17.) The pursuit planes stage mock attacks on the formation of T-3 bombers. Aerial closeups of a J8 in flight. Next, from very close up, one of the fuselage-mounted Browning .303 machine guns on a J8, is seen firing. Two of the bombers drop out of their formation and descend, as if they had been hit. (This is all a demonstration, carefully enacted.)
People observe German book exhibition in Stockholm.
German book exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish people enter the exhibition hall. They climb up stairs. German books and pamphlets displayed on table. A Swedish woman wearing fur coat watches the books. A book on Dürer is opened. Men walk by table and observe the books displayed. Pictures of Renaissance equestrian statues in book. A book titled 'Leonardo da Vinci' is opened. Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait 'Mona Lisa' printed in book.
An antiquarian presents a chauffeur with antique copper currency of 1630.
Car moves on snowy road of Falun, Sweden. An antiquarian gets out of and takes out antique copper currency of 1630 out of bag. He gives the currency to chauffeur. Chauffeur returns back some currency. Car leaves.
