Commanding Officer and members of AFN ( American Forces Network) staff in a meeting at AFN studio in Frankfurt, Germany. AFN military personnel respond to exercise alert in combat gear with weapons, to maintain their readiness. Local German townspeople, wearing historic costumes attend an annual open house at the castle serving as a headquarters for AFN in Frankfurt, Germany. Scenes of AFN staff and local people enjoying a "Schlossfest." Soldiers and civilians listen to AFN radio. Man lights a cigarette while listening to radio. View of a Radio tower.
German Paratroop Commander, Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte is seen following his surrender to U.S. forces at Monschau, Germany, during World War 2. He has a bandaged right arm, injured when he led a contingent of paratroopers in a nighttime drop during German Operation Stösser. He is being carried on a stretcher and placed aboard a U.S. Army field ambulance. ( Note: Von der Heydte commanded German paratroopers in the ill-fated parachute landings of Operation Stösser, on the Hautes Fagnes, Belgium, during the Ardennes counter-offensive. After attempting, for a couple of days, to return to German lines,through thickly forested area, the exhausted Von der Heydte gave himself up to the Americans at Monschau, Germany.)
Scenes of the first daylight strategic bombing by the United States Air Forces against targets in German-controlled Europe. A dozen B-17s execute the first mission against railroad marshaling yards in German-held Rouen, France, on August 17, 1942. A year later, large numbers of U.S. bombers attack Schweinfurt, Germany during World War II. U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress planes take off from U.S. Air Base in England. A formation of B-17s in flight. They head towards Germany. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his aides confer. Unescorted B-17s over Schweinfurt under heavy attack by German FW-190 fighter planes. The B-17s drop bombs over the target area. Ruins of Schweinfurt after bombings. A FW-190 goes down after facing attack. Dead and wounded men unloaded from B-17s which return from the Schweinfurt raid. Panoramic views of ruined Schweinfurt on August 20, 1943.
German Chancelor Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat Berghof in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Adolf Hitler with Nazi officials at Berghof, Berchtesgaden in Germany. Hitler speaks to Nazi official Martin Bormann and Reich Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Berghof hall.
Nazi German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels visits Field Marshal Walter Model on the Western Front during World War II. A staff car driving on a road, likely in Oosterbeek near Arnhem, Netherlands. Joseph Goebbels shakes hands with Marshal Model upon arrival at the latter’s headquarters. Marshal Model performs the Hitler Salute. Other visitors saluted back. A Nazi SS soldier stands guard, watching the arrival of Goebbels. Other officers perform the Nazi salute. Joseph Goebbels and Marshal Model greet each other with the Nazi salute. Goebbels returns to his staff car camouflaged with pine branches. Goebbels talks to Marshal Model before leaving Model’s headquarters. In another sequence, Nazi German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels visits an armaments factory in Germany. Sign on the wall reads ‘Front und Heimat keen nur ein Ziel: Kampf bis zum Sieg!’ (‘Front and home have only one goal: fight to victory!’ in English). More Nazi factory signs reads ‘Unerschütterlich Kampfentschlossen Siegesgewiss!’ (‘Unshakable, determined to fight, certain to win!’) and ‘Mit dem Führer zum Sieg!’ (‘With the Führer to victory!’). Armaments workers perform the Nazi salute inside the factory. A Nazi German standard with the German name of Cologne ‘Köln’. Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech in front of German factory workers. Crowds of German factory workers and Nazi officers, including young men and women, listen to Goebbel’s speech. Goebbels gives encouragement to the workers during his speech. Goebbels talks about the war’s progress and Nazi Germany’s allies, such as Romania. He thanks them for their efforts. Goebbels ended his speech to the enthusiastic applause from the audience. The crowds began to sing a patriotic Nazi song, likely the Horst Wessel song. A Nazi standard representing ‘Rhein’.
U.S. President Richard Nixon in the U.S. Embassy in London and German Chancellery in West Germany during his visit to Europe. Motorcade of President Nixon departs from the U.S. Embassy in London. President Nixon and German Chancellor Kurt G Kiesinger arrive at the German Chancellery Palais Schaumburg in Bonn. President Nixon, West Germany President Heinrich Luebke and other officials and dignitaries pose for group photographs at the back portion of the Villa Hammerschmidt. President Nixon shakes hands with President Luebke. Dr Henry Kissinger and Chancellor Kurt G Kissinger discuss.
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