Berlin Wall being sealed after 17-day pass agreement ends. Anti-tank barrier behind the Berlin Wall. German residents bid farewell and say goodbyes to each other. Million and a quarter passes being issued to West Berlin residents. West Germans waiting in a queue. People walking by the Berlin Wall.
Captured German propaganda film designed to encourage the German population near the end of World War 2. The closed Theater des Volkes (Theater of the people) in Berlin is seen at it's start. Steel gates are being pulled across the entrance of the Deutsches Opernhaus (German Opera House). Steel gates are drawn across the entrance to the Schiller Theater on Bismarckstrasse in Berlin. A sign announcing the open hours at a play house, is covered by a cardboard. Likewise a sign at an opera theater is covered. (Narrator states that Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, has been given the title: "Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War.") City trams are diverted to carry war supplies. View of men loading boxes into one. A tram pulling rail cars loaded with freight. An automobile being towed by a tram. Morale boosting slogans posted in various places. (one reads "Relentlessly determined to win victory." Another reads "With the Leader (Fuhrer) to Victory." Joseph Goebbels, addressing a rally of armaments workers in the Rhineland District, tells them (according to the Narrator) "Before we admit the enemy to German soil, and submit ourselves to his will, we will first work our hands bloody and work to our last breath." The assembled workers applaud enthusiastically. Men and women over 65 years of age are mobilized to help with the war effort and seen engaged in light manufacturing. German miners coming off shift volunteer to dig trenches and prepare earthworks. The receive tools and march to a work site. Views of men digging defenses in East Prussia where it became urgent as the Soviet army drew near in October, 1944. In another similar scene, many women are seen working alongside men building defenses. A group of Nazi officers pose for pictures ostensibly working to also dig fortifications. A huge civilian work force is seen digging deep and wide ditches to stop or delay invaders.
Women perform final calibration and hand finishing of munitions casings. Army representatives perform inspections. A woman reams final holes for detonators (fuzes) in casing noses. Munitions are measured and passed through final set of acceptance guages, including a barrel gauge. Women stamp dates and other information on the casings with hammers and dies. The Casings are then rolled across a paint printer and moved by conveyor to shipping area.
German children at a Hilfstele Mutter und.kind facility during a period of Allied bombing. Sign reads, "Hilfstele Mutter und.kind (Mother and Child Relief Organization - MuK for short) German children play. They play in the nursery sliding down a slide. They eat food in a cafeteria. A young German boy drinks from a cup and smiles. (World War II period).
The increase of work force through emigrants and forced foreign labor. Men walk. Destroyed tank on a field. Dead bodies of soldiers near the tank. Adolf Hitler greeted by soldiers. Soldiers stand in formation. Men work in the factory. (World War II period).
Adolf Hitler and key members of his government at a railroad station, as a steam train arrives. As they step from the train, Tsar Boris III, of Bulgaria, and a professor, accompanying him, are greeted by Adolf Hitler, who then introduces the Tsar to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, The Tsar greets other German officers and officials.
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