High ranking U.S. officials in Moosburg, Germany during World War 2. Major General James A Van Fleet of III Corps, Third U.S. Army, and Major General A. C. Smith of the 14th Armored Division of VI Corps, Seventh U.S. Army, meet at the banks of the Isar River and examine a damaged bridge.
Catholics attend mass in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Catholic churchgoers pray inside the St. Vitus Cathedral (III. nádvoří 48/2, 119 01 Praha 1-Hradčany, Czechia) of Prague. Children with flowers stand in front. An old woman worships. Worshipers pray near the tomb of the Kings of Bohemia. A procession leaves the Catholic church of St. Nicholas (Malostranské nám., 118 00 Malá Strana, Czechia) and proceeds along the streets of Prague. The procession passes in front of an arcade and arrive at a street altar. Girls in white veils and dresses walk in the procession. Nuns and priests in the parade.
Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of forces in Warsaw, Poland, walks to a bus in which Nazi German officers await to negotiate a cease fire. They discuss disposition of forces using a map. General Kutrzeba then leaves, returns salute of German officer and returns to his soldier garrison. (World War 2.)
German soldiers keeping watch on a high bluff of the German Westwall (Ziegfried or Siegfried Line) early in World War 2. German soldiers entering fortifications of the Westwall. Fortification or bunker doorway entrance decorated with relief carvings of German soldiers. Camouflaged German heavy artillery guns being elevated on the Westwall (Ziegfried Line) at German standardized bunker Regelbau 35 (R35). Field artillery being fired. French and Germans exchange gunfire on Franco-German border. View of damaged houses in Herbitzheim, Germany, 10 kilometers from the border. View of damaged house where Moroccans lived. German troops using secret types of explosive charges inside buildings, and making their way through French village where they encounter a booby trapped wagon. French prisoners being escorted and processed by German soldiers, and then driven away in trucks.
German troops parade in Prague, Czechoslovakia during German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War 2. German troops parade in Prague. German artillery and tanks roll through central Prague. Troops march at Wenceslas Square. Equestrian statue of Wenseslas, Duke of Bohemia, in armor, carrying a banner. Troops and tanks parade as German officers watch them. German Luftwaffe planes fly overhead.
After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the exterior front of the German Reich Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany. A plaque in German identifies it as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP (Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party). Camera moves through various rooms of the building showing wreckage. In one room a world globe, a table and some broken furniture are shown. Scene changes to an animated map of Europe centered on Germany that depicts the dramatic expansion of German conquest in beginning of World War 2. It then shows further expansion with German invasion of the Soviet Union. From then on It adds a line directed to India (labeled in Russian) and another pointed into North America.The map then sends more lines covering the Continent of Africa and the South and Central America. These represent a plan for world conquest. View of a German three engine twin tail seaplane being launched by a catapult. Closeups of the plane in flight. Scene changes to German paratroopers jumping from a Junkers 52, three engine transport plane. Aerial view from above of the paratroopers leaping from the aircraft and from below as they descend with their chutes billowing out above them. Ground view of them landing on sand in North Africa. German troops on motor cycles, half track personnel carriers ( Sd.Kfz. 250 ) and Panzer III tanks. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel standing with his staff, directing elements of his Afrika Korps forces in North Africa. Smiling German troops riding in an open Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track personnel carrier. A huge explosion and dense black smoke is seen. Then, a German Heinkel HE 111 bomber is seen maneuvering overhead. Brief glimpse from an aircraft strafing an armored vehicle on the ground. Suddenly a submarine's periscope is seen just above the water and a transport ship (or freighter) is seen as through the periscope. Next, inside a German submarine, the Captain lowers his periscope and scene shifts to bow of submarine surfacing and the ship is seen burning and exploding. A torpedo is launched from a surfaced submarine and it strikes a ship creating a huge explosion and fireball.
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