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Corpses of Nazi slave laborers at a Vergeltungswaffe V- weapon plant in Nordhausen,Germany.

Shows Major General J Lawton Collins, Commander of U.S. VII Corps and U.S. Third Army soldiers at a Nazi German Vergeltungswaffe V- weapon plant (V-1 and V-2 missiles) in Nordhausen, Germany. General Collins and the soldiers examine dead bodies of the slave laborers and inspect the ruins of the rocket weapons plant in their jeeps. Shows a young slave worker victim's corpse with name and nationality written on his chest. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 15
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029059
Montage of German rocketry scenes from 1930s through World War II. Nazi surrender. Atomic bomb. Japanese surrender

German rocket pioneer, Gerhard Zucker, attempting to develop postal rockets in the 1930s. Location is Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven, on April 9, 1933, where Zucker follows Nazi Sturmabteilung (also called SA or Stormtroopers) carrying the mail rocket across wet sands. The rocket is set up on a launch stand. Zucker and an assistant ignite the 8 side rockets and the mail rocket takes off. It noses up and loops over backwards, falling to the sand. German Stormtroopers lift up the damaged device. Next, is seen a later, more modern, rocket trial ending in failure. Two German engineers display a model similar to the pulse-jet-powered "buzz bomb" (V-1) employed by the Nazis in World War 2. A brief glimpse of similar American machine on sand flat, as narrator states German acknowledgement of knowledge gleaned from Dr. Robert Goddard's work. A German V-1 flying bomb (aka Doodle Bug) being launched in 1944, during World War 2. View of British houses of Parliament, London, England; an air raid shelter sign in City of Westminster. Londoners waiting out a raid in the shelter. Scenes of fire and destruction during German bombing of London, as narrator speaks about the more advanced German V-2 ballistic missiles employed later in the war. Londoners trudging through debris amongst bombed out buildings. Change of scene to U.S. infantry and armor advancing deep into Germany. Narrator refers to them overrunning rocket bases and other vital war-making facilities, near the end of the war. Glimpse of large number of German prisoners of war. Documents of military surrender being signed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, in Berlin, May 8, 1945. Closeup of Keitel. Scenes of American forces operating in Pacific theater. Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion. Japanese surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. U.S. soldiers and other service personnel return home and greeting loved ones at end of war. Aerial view of Pentagon building and surrounding area in Arlington Virginia near Washington DC. U.S. troops boarding a ship in San Francisco, bound for war again, this time in Korea (1950).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073558
U.S. Congressman Everett Dirksen and Commander John S Young visit Mettelbau-Dora Concentration Camp in Nordhausen, Germany.

Congressman Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Chicago and U.S. Commander, John S Young arrive at camp Mettelbau-Dora (Nazi concentration camp) in Nordhausen, Germany. Dirksen and Young conduct a tour of the prison camp accompanied by U.S. Army officers. The visitors interview a released camp prisoner and visit German V-weapon ( V1s and V2s) manufacturing factories (Mittelwerk factory at Kohnstein).

Date: 1945, May 16
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029078
Newsreel titled Britain Digs Deep to Flee Robot Bombs depicting British civilians at a deep underground bomb proof shelter (WW2)

Newsreel titled 'Britain Digs Deep to Flee Robot Bombs" (V2 flying bombs). British civilians evacuated to an underground 'Deep Shelter' in London, avoiding bombing over civil areas by the Nazi German Luftwaffe aircraft. Civilian men, women and children in the underground bomb shelter. A mother feeds milk to her infant. People can be seen cooking, socializing, and asleep in the shelter. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 11
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036123
German A-4 missile list off during test firing in Peenemunde, Germany during world War 2

German A-4 ballistic missile being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. A-4 missile also known as V-2 rocket on the launch pad ready to be fired. Missile being launched and it lifts off. Missile heads towards the sky as it emits a fiery flare.

Date: 1943
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077600
German A-4 missile list off during test firing at night in Peenemunde, Germany during world War 2

German A-4 ballistic missile being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. A-4 missile also known as V-2 rocket on the launch pad ready to be fired at night. Fiery flare emits from the tail section of the rocket. Missile being launched and it lifts off.

Date: 1943
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077601