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Spectators watch horse-race in Germany.

Spectators watch horse-race in Germany. Men on horses in the street. Bicycle race on the street. Houses asides the street. Men watch. Boxing match in a ring. Referee intermediates between the boxers. A large crowd gathers in a stadium to watch a football match.

Date: 1940
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027586
People gather at an opera house in Germany; various performing arts in Nazi Germany; Winterhilfswerk fund drive

People gather at an opera house in Germany. Dancers perform a high kick routine in the hall. People watch the show and applaud. Some are Nazi German soldiers in uniform. View of an acrobatic show with a floor show followed by a trapeze act entertaining an audience in Germany. Men play in an orchestra in a symphony hall or opera house. Conductor leads orchestra. View of various instrument sections up close, including trumpets. View from behind violin players as they read music and play. Woman model on a stage comes forward and stoops with a tin can to accept contributions in the annual Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes drive, for relief for needy people in Germany during the winter. Street scenes of youth carrying tins and accepting coin and money contributions from German citizens for the Winterhilfswerk fund drive. A small child adds a coin to the tin. A Nazi officer adds a coin. A group of men crowd around to put coins in the tin. People watch them. Brief montage scene of German armament in World War 2, including artillery being raised to fire, close-up view of tank tread as tank advances, German Navy ships underway in the ocean, low-flying German aircraft flying overhead in the sky including a Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor aircraft.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027587
Men working in a gun factory in Germany.

German men working in a munitions and war materiel factory in Nazi Germany during World War 2. Industrial steel melting operations. Metal being melted and molded in the factory. Artillery and gun barrels being manufactured. Metal ingots in process in the factory. Close up views of workers watching the whole process and working. Manufacturing of ordnance shells in the factory. The metal ingots inserted into a container and manufacture of shells takes place.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027588
German film depicting various German war planes in peaceful flights during World War II.

A loose formation of German Junkers Ju 87 aircraft (Stuka dive bombers) take off from a rugged field and camera tracks them as they fly overhead in World War 2.. Several Dornier DO 17 bombers are seen flying at low altitude with landing gears extended in vicinity of an airport. View from cockpit aft at the pontoon on a German Navy Heinkel He 59 float plane creating a wake in water during takeoff. Another He 59 float plane is taking off in the background. Brief view from overflying aircraft of a German torpedo boat racing in water below. Several Heinkel He 59 float planes in an extremely tight formation in flight. The pilot of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E climbs into its cockpit and prepares to depart. The side of his aircraft depicts a "weeping crow with umbrella," the logo of I Gruppe of the Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader fighter wing. Next, several Me Bf 109s are seen taking off from an airfield. View from the side, followed by view of them heading straight toward the camera, and raising their landing gears as they pass overhead. A church building is seen in the background. Several Heinkel 111 bombers are silhouetted as they take off from and airfield. Aerial view from above of Dornier 217 bombers flying over agricultural region of farms. View of crew member in nose of a Dornier 217 flying in formation with others. The pilot at the aircraft's controls. View from cockpit of other aircraft in the formation. Camera focuses again on the pilot at the controls, and other aircraft in the formation.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027589
U.S. Marine Corps Grumman F3F-2 airplane stalls out and crashes nose down on deck of the USS Wasp (CV-7).

USS Wasp (CV-7) flight operations,prior to World War II. Slow motion sequence, from two different perspectives, of a Grumman F3F-2 Marine Corps aircraft landing on the flight deck. The airplane rounds out high, clips two restraining cables, and stalls, dropping nose first to the deck and falling on right wings, then balancing vertically on its nose, before falling back onto its wheels.

Date: 1940
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027775
German offensives into Holland and Belgium early in World War II

Animated map depicts principal positions of British and French forces on the French-Belgian border in September, 1939 at the start of World War 2, It shows assembly and movement of some forces in Belgium and Holland. Adolf Hitler looks over a planning map with Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and other officers. Animated map illustrates the disposition of German forces under Generals Bock and Von Rundstedt, and their plan of attack across the Rhine River into Belgium. At German headquarters communications center switchboard operators connect military units to send orders. German soldiers and equipment starts moving with motorcycles, trucks, halftracks and other vehicles. General Franz Halder, Commmander-in-Chief of all German forces, climbs into an open army utility vehicle, after arriving by plane at an airport. An aircraft engine being started. Marshal Hermann Goering, Chief of the airforce (Luftwaffe) converses with an officer at an airport. Junkers Ju 88 bombers taking off and flying in loose formation high overhead. Views from inside one of the aircraft. Closeup of a Heinkel He 111 bomber in flight. View from greenhouse of the aircraft. German paratroopers in the cabin of a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane. Two Ju 52s flying overhead. View from inside a Ju 52 of Belgium and Holland waterways below. Pilot informs the troopers who stand and begin the parachute from the plane into Rotterdam. Closeup of the troopers exiting with chutes starting to open. Three Ju 52s dropping paratroops. Shots of troopers descending under fully open chutes. Aerial view of Rotterdam. German troops running along street and discarding border obstacles with sledge hammers.Military vehicles crossing the border. Tanks used to destroy obstacles. A Stug III crossing the border. German infantry moving cautiously through wooded area. A group drops down to the ground as a shot is heard to ricochet past them. German soldiers firing machine gun. Infantry under fire moving across fields flanking a village. German soldiers under small arms fire, scurry along a deserted steet in a town and seek shelter in doorways. Two carry a wounded comrade. A soldier fires an MG 42 machine gun resting on the shoulder of another soldier. German soldiers stand over two wounded. More German troops running close to buildings for cover.

Date: 1940, May 10
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028010