The city of Paris, France under German occupation during World War 2. View from above of Place de l'Opera and l'Academie Nationale de Musique - Theatre de l'Opera, with citizens going in and out of the metro subway station. Many new German signs seen. Point of view from moving vehicle of pedestrians, shops, and busy streets of Paris. POV from moving vehicle of French civilians on bicycles and German soldiers on foot. German vehicles drive along the streets.The Hotel Crillon with Swastika flags in front. A large sign in German reads Deutsches Soldatenkino (for a German Soldier's cinema or movie theatre). Sign for "Soldatenheim der Kommandantur gross Paris" (German Military Commander's headquarters in Paris.) People ride bicycles. German trucks drive along the street. French civilians in a line in front of a store, queuing for rations or supplies.
Head of U.S. Defense Council William Knudsen reports on the progress of National Defense Program in Washington DC during World War II. He speaks how the United States is being geared up to turn out thousands of new fighting airplanes and other military and naval equipment.
Dignitaries attend ceremonies at the 38th Anniversary of the U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) in Dayton, Ohio during World War II. Orville Wright and other dignitaries view from the grandstand. A captured German Junkers Ju 290 transport aircraft arrives from abroad for study, bearing the painted slogan "Alles Kaputt". The aircraft takes off from a runway. A new P-80 Shooting Star jet aircraft is displayed and takes off.
Slate states the new Germany honors its dead by means of State Funeral. Brief views of the Berlin Cathedral (Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin, Germany). View of a resting (dead) Hans Eberhard Maikowski, Leader of a Storm Trooper unit (SA Sturm 33), who was fatally shot, along with Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, January 30th, during a melee with Communists after parading to celebrate Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Hermann Göring (or Goering) talking with Nazi officials on steps of building. Adolf Hitler stands near a car with large contingent of Storm Troopers. View from a high point of a funeral procession surrounded by huge crowd. The procession includes the hearses of Maikowski and Sauritz, pulled by horses. Close view of elaborate hearse of Zauritz, drawn by covered horses and escorted by Berlin policemen, and that of Maikowski, escorted by Nazi Stormtroopers. Procession of mourners including Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering, followed by Stormtroopers carrying wreaths. Pallbearers in top hats carry a coffin.
Crowds gather in Potsdam, Germany, where most of the newly elected members of the Reichstag (Parliament) hold their first meeting in the Garrison church. Views of the street, crowds, and the Garrison Church. Banner in street says, " We greet the new Germany." President Hindenburg steps from the church, holding his Field Marshal's baton, and greets two clergymen. Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers struggle to hold crowds back. Members of the Reichstag exit the church, wearing top hats.
Repair of telephone cables in a bomb ditch in Germany during World War 2. Telephone men splice cables. A bomb explodes. Scenes of operators and communication systems that have lost connections due to the blast. A man talks over a telephone and works on an instrument panel rerouting communications, and then researching to locate the outage. A truck arrives at the explosion site. Repair personnel locate the cut line and then install and solder a new line into place. After communications are restored, scenes of German women at typewriters and switchboards resuming communications.
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