Gerrnan Navy personnel look over a large number of marine mines piled up on the seashore in World War 2.. Several navy men walk into the surf where they retrieve a large mine floating ashore. A Navy explosives ordnance disposal technician removes parts from the mine. He and another Navy man examine them. Next, they deliberately detonate the mine creating a large blast, on the shore. A Navy Lieutenant is seen removing parts from another mine. Narrator states that he and his enlisted assistant have together destroyed 5,600 mines. His assistant wires up the mine for destruction. View of the mine exploding.
Opening scene shows some German occupying soldiers walking among ancient ruins in Greece, during World War 2. Next, several German officers watch as another works on a painting. More scenes of ancient ruins. Change of scene shows a German soldier painting a pastoral scene, and several others are seen painting in several picturesque settings. Several scenes are shown as viewed through a wooden box window. A painted portrait of Adolf Hitler is shown.
Film opens showing German Colonel General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, who was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army, by Adolf Hitler, on 21 July 1944, in World War 2. He is being feted as the New Army Chief. He reviews a large Honor Guard of German troops who line both sides of a street, in Germany. Local people cheer him from the sidewalks, and he is greeted by several German Youth girls. He steps into a building where other officers greet him and present him with a scale model of what appears to be a Panther Ausf. G tank. He looks closely as another officer points out the model's features. He then writes his name in the city's book of distinguished visitors. Complete change of scene shows General Guderian visiting members of his family, who greet him with kisses at the entrance to their house in Goslar, Germany. Inside their home Guderian shares coffee and cake with them at their dining room table. He and family members then look together through albums of photographs and memorabilia, of his career in the military, including one photograph of General Guderian with Adolf Hitler.
German soldiers in Germany during World War 2. A flooded area of the Eastern Front. German soldiers in speed boats. A man steps in a water filled gutter. A wheel with chains. Water up to the level of the axle of the wheel. Trucks skid in mud. A German car moves through very deep mud. A half truck pulls a field piece through mud. German soldiers with horses walk through mud. They fire anti tank guns and mortars through a wooded area.
"It's up to You." Bucolic scenes of the Alpine region in Germany, before World War 2. Camera pans from trees against sky to waterfall. Sheep come down a hillside. A boy leads a flock of geese. A man places sheep in a stream. The sheep swims ashore. Houses in a valley in Bavaria. A farmer pitches hay onto a wagon. Two old men play clarinets in a garden. Two boys listen. An old man leads a balky pig through the streets. Some kids watch. A child peeps out of a window. An old man feeds pigeons. Cats on a bench.
Film which contrasts typical German lifestyle in Germany in 1930s, with rise of NSDAP or Nazi movement, pre World War 2. German Civilians on an escalator. 1930's German Police officer lead kids across city streets. Traffic in a German city. A workman on a barge and gets off the barge in Hamburg. Laborers unload sacks of flour. Lumbermen at work on trees and men working in a steel mill. Workers blowing glass to make glass itmes. Workers paint theatrical masks. People in an outdoor café or restaurant. A couple dances. People move on a snow covered ground. A man takes snapshot of a German family. An old man wearing a striped bathing suit walks out of water. Burgomeisters or (burgermeisters) in a town ceremony. German Army soldiers or Freikorps (before third reich) marching in a parade on city streets. People get off a suburban train at a railroad station. A puddler works in the steel mill. A girl and a boy on bicycles riding close together as the boy has his arm around the girl. A carnival ride called "Ausgang". A merry-go-round at a carnival or fair, and people playing games at a carnival. Children crowd around a clown wearing a high hat. Middle aged men play cards. Middle aged couples at an outdoor cafe. Sudden contrast to Nazi SA or Sturmabteilung stormtroopers in training. Paramilitary training of brownshirts and of boys in a group (future Hitler youth). German citizens at a Nazi rally giving a Nazi salute in unison. A view of vineyards. A Nazi officer gives a speech. German Sturmabteilung marching in a parade with Nazi salutes. Children playing in a game where they roll a large ball using only their heads while hopping along. A woman swimmer enters water at a beach. Several Sturmabteilung in a training drill in water.
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