German soldiers, in and around Auerbach and Tannenbergsthal, Saxony, moving to home bases in Germany immediately after end of World War Two in Europe. German trucks loaded with troops and a bus loaded with German soldiers turn a corner and move on road. German bus moves on tree lined street. German soldiers and trucks in a grassy field. Trees and hills in the background. German and American soldiers converse. German officers surrender pistols and a rifle to a U.S. Army officer. German soldiers ride in horse drawn carts on a street in a village. They ride along rugged road. German officer talks with U.S. Army officer. German truck on a village street and a country road. German soldier walks on a road. He stops to read a road sign. German open staff car moves on street in village. German soldiers ride in two horse drawn carts. Other German soldiers walk beside carts. Two German officers talk with a U.S. Army officer. German soldiers ride on top of bus. U.S. Army officer talks with a group of German officers.
Scenes of oil exploration and production operation by Compagnie Française des Pétroles in the Hassi Messaoud oil field at edge of Sahara Desert in Algeria. Drilling operation in desert. drill turning in hole. Derrick in background with dromedary camels standing by sand dunes and being watered from a well by their Algerian Berber owner. Two men pile stones to make a marker in the desert. A 1958 British land rover vehicle driving across the desert. View of drilling derrick. Sections of pipe on the ground. Oil being pumped from a producing well into pipeline. French oil drilling worker empties bag of Boue forage (drilling mud) into hole. French worker, with hose, washes down base areas of drilling rig.Oil storage tanks connected by pipes. Local Algerian Berber workmen lift and carry bags of forage. Footprints in sand. Network of piping next to drill rig.
A splashdown point for Apollo 11 Command/Service Module (CSM) in the Pacific Ocean. Aerial views of a base with trailers and people gathered. The President's aircraft can be seen parked. USS Arlington (AGMR-2) underway. It is bristling with countless antennas and posts erected on the flight deck, and is providing communications support for the Apollo 11 recovery. Navy officers on the deck of USS Arlington. Sailors are lined up in a square formation surrounding center of deck. Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded the Apollo 8 mission, is seen on deck. A U.S. Navy Sikorsky Sea King SH-3D helicopter hovering over USS Arlington. Aboard prime recovery ship USS Hornet (CVS-12), U.S. President Richard Nixon awaits the arrival of astronauts. The President stands in front of a Mobile Quarantine Unit, where NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Programs, George Mueller, explains the Biological Isolation Garment being modeled. Nixon feels the texture of the suit.
Nazi stormtroopers (SA or Sturmabteilung or brownshirts) parade in Germany. Nazi officers march giving Nazi salute to start the event. The Nazi stormtroopers parade past their leaders.The German soldiers carry flags based on the Imperial War Ensign (World War I) design which had been adopted following the National Socialist Machtergreifung, or “Seizure of Power”, on 30 January 1933. Nazi officers on sidelines give arm salutes, except for one who renders classic hand salute to forhead. He looks around at all the others and jokes about it.
Scenes from the period of the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. During preparation for exchange of prisoner, ethnic German victims walk in front of a line of captives and are seen pointing at and identifying Poles responsible for what the Germans called the Bromberg murders or Bloody Sunday (that occurred in Bydgoszcz). Polish Jews and Bolsheviks, whom the Nazis accuse of being partly responsible, are forced to perform hard labor. View of a row of Jewish men in Poland. Then a large group of Jewish and Bolshevik men seated together and being held captive in an outdoor setting (possibly Krakow area based on similar Bundesarchiv photographs). Scene of Jewish men and Bolshevik men at forced labor where they dig ditches and roads with shovels (slave labor).
Views of the British battleship Royal Oak, in Scapa Flow, Scotland, and underway at sea. . The German submarine, U-47, commanded by Captain Gunter Prien, underway and saluting as they are greeted as they return to base at Kiel, Germany, on October 23, 1939, after successfully penetrating Scapa Flow and torpedoing the British battleship, Royal Oak (and also, the British battle cruiser, Repulse, they believed), on October 14, 1939.
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