A U.S. Army 1/4 ton truck driving around shell holes in dirt road near Hallerbach, Germany during World War II. Two soldiers of the 1st Battalion 39th Infantry Regiment 9th Division carrying covered body of a dead U.S. soldier on a stretcher out of the woods. German children play beside a Jeep. A white pet dog stands near the children. U.S. Army soldiers in Jeep arrive in Kalenborn in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
View of Hitler's famous mountain Eagle’s Nest residence, the Berghof, in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. View of the snow covered Berghof as seen below the mountain. Snowcapped Bavarian Alps behind alpine trees. U.S. Army vehicles in front of the Platterhof Gasthaus, known as the General Walker Hotel after World War II, in Obersalzburg, Germany. Some vehicles come and go in front of the Platterhof Gasthaus. 101st Airborne Division soldiers perform a changing the guard ceremony. An officer inspects the troops.
View of Ellis Loring Dresel, United States commissioner to Germany and chargé d'affaires for the United States in Germany, seen standing beside a building in Berlin. Men gather for the signing of the United States peace treaty with Germany in Berlin, almost three years after the World War I armistice was signed. Mr. Dresel and two other diplomats enter a 1920's car parked on the street, as a small crowd stands by. The Treaty document is shown for the camera, bearing the signature of Ellis Loring Dresel.
Scene is in the Luitpoldhalle meeting hall at the Nazi party Congress Grounds (Reichsparteitagsgelände) in Nuremberg Germany, during the 6th Party Congress of 1934. Rudolf Hess strides to the podium and simply says "The leader speaks," whereupon the assembly cheers enthusiastically, as Adolf Hitler stands quietly at the podium, until the cheering subsides. He then begins his speech noting that the 6th Party Congess is ending. As he continues to speak about the significance of the National Socialist Party, extoling its virtues and importance, the camera shows closeups of party leaders listening, including: Rudolf Hess; Joseph Goebbels; Hermann Goering; Heinrich Himmler; Baldur von Schirach, and others. As Hitler reminisces about the days when it was hard to be a National Socialist, the assembly responds with cheers of recognition. Thereafter, the film shifts back and forth between Hitler at the podium, and scenes of the audience responding, and of individuals listening intently. Glimpse of Goering standing and looking about, as Hess takes the podium in the noisy wake of Hitler's speech. Hitler giving arm-bent Nazi half salute. As enthusiastic cheering continues, Hess turns again and salutes Hitler. But it is difficult to quiet the crowd. Finally, Hess shouts that the "The Party is Hitler's but Germany is Hitler's and Hitler is Germany's (Die Partei ist Hitler, aber Deutschland ist Hitler und Hitler ist Deutschland). Then he turns and leads a round of "Sieg Heils" for Hitler. Then the entire assembly begins to sing the Nazi Party anthem (Horst-Wessel lied), in a slow deliberate tempo, as light fills the stage area of the hall. Camera focuses on a giant swastika, zooms in, and fades to marching troops.
Signing of the so-called Munich Agreement between Germany, Italy, Britain, and France, in 1938. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini ride together in an open car enroute to the Führerbau of the Nazi Party, near the Konigsplatz, in Munich, Germany. Each of the Conference principals enters the Führerbau (Arcisstraße 12, 80333 München, Germany). Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Goering, Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier are seen moving about and conversing. They begin signing the accords. Hitler and Mussolini converse together. After the signings, Hitler shakes hands with the French Foreign Minister, Daladier, and the four principals, Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, and Daladier, stand together.
Events of Nazi crimes are related during the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief prosecutor from the United States, Robert Houghwout Jackson, makes the opening statement of the prosecution. He presents Count 1 of the indictment a conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against peace and humanity. Defendants stand in their dock including Herman Goring, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel. View of the Adolf Hitler's autobiography, "Mein Kampf". Nazi flag flutters in Munich, Germany. Scenes of panic, riots, and political and economic unrest in the streets of post World War I Munich, Germany, during the 1920's and 1930's as Adolf Hitler and his associates rose to power. Large crowd gathered on the streets on the eve of Nazi party rally. A younger Adolf Hitler and aides pose at the stairs of a building. Adolf Hitler reviews his Brownshirt Sturmabteilung SA troops. Hermann Goering (Göring) seen briefly at front of a unit of marching Sturmabteilung, rendering Nazi salute. Hitler addresses the party. Joseph Goebbels shown in an office seated at a desk and talking on phone, and then speaking at an early Nazi rally. View of headlines of German Newspapers. Scenes of street riots and efforts by the Nazis aimed to gain the highest degree of control over the Germans by any means. Burning of books by Nazi leaders in a large bonfire. Exterior view of the Reichstag in Berlin.
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