A German Luftwaffe military aircraft parked in front of a weather station in Germany in the late 1930s. A German man releases weather balloon at the weather station. The weather balloon flies away. A German Aeronautical scientist using telescopes to watch weather balloon’s flight. Scientists setting up equipment in garden. A scientist uses a camera to record a propeller running on high speed. A materials scientist pulls out a cross from the ground.
A Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 (“Albert Dossenbach”) taking off overhead and in flight over Germany, pre World War 2. A Heinkel He 111 transport airliner (D-ABYE) with Nazi Swastika empennage in flight to left. A Lufthansa Junkers Ju-86 in flight. Lufthansa Focke-Wulf Condor transport plane (“Brandenburg”) in flight to right. Aerial view of airfield showing rows of Ju 52 transport planes and Focke-Wulf Fw-56 Stösser trainer aircraft.
German women, wearing skirts modeled after male German lederhosen, perform acrobatic stunts on roller skates in cabaret style performance. Germany, 1940, during WW2. One woman holds another aloft, swinging them through the air, while spinning in circles. A new pair of women take the stage, performing a more daring stunt where the woman swinging through the air is only connected to the one spinning on the ground by a single leg, wrapped around the neck. A third stunt is performed by two women, followed by a spinning stunt involving all four acrobats. From a Spanish newsreel.
'Sieg im Westen' (Victory in the West) depicts Germany in World War I, and the first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. German troops swear loyalty to Nazi German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. Panoramic views of the German countryside. Mountains, farmers harvesting crops, German cities, a cathedral, steel mills and coal mines. German troops reviewed at a colonial post. German troops advance during World War I. German President Paul Von Hindenburg and Generalquartiermeister (Quartermaster general) Erich Ludendorff. Animated maps depict powers allied with and arrayed against Germany in WW I, the extent of German advances, and the effect of the Versailles Treaty on Germany's borders. Forts are demolished, cannon and hangars destroyed, ships scuttled, and planes junked. German communists arouse crowds. Communist literature, montage demonstrates hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic. Inflated price posted on food. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler reviews storm troops. Paul Von Hindenburg reviews German troops. German troops train with wooden tanks. French Prime Minister Andre Leon Blum and other officers review a military parade at Champ-Elysees in Paris. Troops march before the Arc de Triomphe. Paul Von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Reich chancellor. Hitler spades some earth, men build factories, war material production begins during rearmament of Germany, and concrete is laid for an autobahn (freeway).
U.S. Army training film depicts racial theories used by the German Nazi party. Clip includes mix of actual footage and actor portrayals. Actors portraying Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goring and others at their office. Next scene is authentic footage of book burning by Nazi soldiers. Actor portraying prisoner in jail cell. Actual view of people in Germany migrating with their belongings. Several views of University students crossing a bridge over River Lahn, and buildings of Philipps University of Marburg in Marburg Germany during the late 1930s or early 1940s. View of news commentator speaking at microphone of BBC radio. Cover page of an edition of The New York Times as example of media banned in Nazi Germany. Actual footage of Goebbels speaking and addressing a group. Footage of champion African American boxer Joe Louis fighting in the boxing ring. His fights were banned to be seen in Germany. View of scientist Albert Einstein walking in a garden area outdoors and then on a footpath toward what appears to be Nassau Hall of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. Remainder of clip shows dramatized scenes with actors, as follows: Catholic priest and a judge express fear from hatred spread by Nazis and oppose Nazi theories. They were put into concentration camp. A teacher in class disapproves Nazi theory of racial supremacy. Nazi soldiers arrest him. (World War II period).
An International Air Show in Munich, Germany. A boy looking upward at the air show. Formation of German Luftwaffe T-33 aircraft in flight with iron cross symbol on fuselage (post World War 2). American (USAF Skyblazers) F-100 Sabre aircraft in formation. Next, aerial views of the Italian "Getti Tonanti" aircraft team is seen as they perform aerobatics in their Republic f-84f thunderstreak aircraft. Pilot point of view (POV) from inside cockpit of aircraft as it does a complete roll. French Dassault Mystère fighter aircraft (MD.452 Mystère) perform stunts as they leave vapor trails behind. Woman wearing scarf on her hair looks up at the show.
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