Title card says “Flakzielgerät 76 V 102 Schnittautnahmen 17.8.1943” (“Anti-aircraft target device 76 V 102 cut recordings 08/17/1943” in English). World War II V-1 glide bomb launches after Argus engine start. View of exit point of Walter catapult. Entire launch ramp shown as camera pans to surface of launch ramp.
Title card says “Geheime Kommandosache” (“Secret commando operation” in English). “Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe Karlshagen” (“Test site of the Air Force Karlshagen” in English). Information on “Flakzielgerät 76 Ohne Zünder” (“Flak target device 76 No Detonator” in English). View of V-1 flying bomb without wings attached and no engine running being released at an altitude of 2000 meters. Unstable V-1 buzz bomb falls to ground and explodes during World War II.
The Imperial German Army (“Deutsches Heer” in German) leaves for Belgium and France after the German Empire declares war on Russia and France in World War 1. A steam locomotive train moves past a forest, moving slowly beside a crowd of Imperial German troops. German troops march out after the train has come to a full stop. German Army officials greet each other. German Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands with a high-ranking military official. German military officials inspect infantry. Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands firmly with a German military officer after raising his clenched fist in the air.
World War II German film (“Arbeitskopie” or “working copy”) showing men lifting a Gotha Go-242 transport glider using a hydraulic jack. The port side of German Go-242 glider front fuselage. Two civilian workers place a large hydraulic jack under the nose of the Go-242 aircraft. They raise the Go-242’s nose section about 5 feet off the ground. Two other civilians place a two-wheel under-carriage under the middle part of aircraft fuselage. View of worker's hands as he attaches wheels to fuselage frame. German soldiers push two side-car motorcycles into rear of aircraft with open half of fuselage. Fuselage drops down and closes as seen from the rear half of aircraft. Interior close ups of the position of two motorcycles with soldiers (possibly paratroopers) sitting in seats. A tractor towing the Go-242 glider on airfield.
German soldiers loading Howitzers into a parked Gotha Go-242 transport glider on ground covered with snow. The rear of the fuselage is raised. Soldiers pushing in a World War II 105mm type German Howitzer. Two soldiers inside aircraft use hand pulley to pull in the Howitzer. The soldiers load more Howitzers into the aircraft. Interior shots of Go-242 glider as soldier fastens the just close rear part of fuselage. Soldiers continue to fasten and secure the Howitzer to aircraft deck using cloth straps. Go-242 towed by a small truck from right to left. The aircraft goes past ground camera and then right to left again over snow-cleared runway.
End of World War II in Europe. A map shows Atlantic coast of France. American and German officers facilitate the repatriation of their soldiers at port of Dunkirk. Red Cross workers exchange papers with officers. Officers and soldiers in a boat. The soldiers stand in a group and talk. They stand at a road side. They happily board boats to take them home. German military high command consult and broadcast to the people of Germany about actions being taken to return their troops to their homeland of Germany.
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