German A-4 Missile (also termed V-2 rocket) on a launch pad ready for launch from Peenemunde rocket research and test center during World War 2. Puff of smoke rises from rocket tail and rocket / missile lifts off, fire emits from tail. Missile in flight. Missile descends. Gauge in lower right of image depicts measurements while rocket is in flight..
Film made during World War 2, opens with homemade slate, in color, by Eva Braun, entitled (in German) "Excursion to Kehlsteinhaus" (Hitler's so-called Eagle's Nest). Color shot of shining right headlight of a car decorated with Nazi swastika flag. Black and white view of car driving up a mountain road to the Eagle's Nest. At the top of the drive, members of the staff and cast of the film "Der laufende Berg" are seen. (The film crew had been visited by Adolf Hitler's mistress Eva Braun who filmed parts of the shooting with her private camera. Apparently she invited them to make this visit.) Actress Hansi Knoteck is the first cast member seen after the car ride. The rest of the guests mingle admiring the view, although the mountaintop is covered in mist. Actor, Paul Richter, wearing a Tyrolean hat, smiles and laughs as he takes photographs with his own camera. Actor Gustl Stark-Gstettenbauer, and actresses, Hansi Knoteck and Maria Andergast, stand behind him. Scene shifts to entrance of the Eagles Nest, where the film staff and cast members mingle and converse. Cast members Richter, Stark-Gsterrenbauer, Knoteck, and Andergast fool around for the camera. Andergast puts her finger on the nose of actor Gustl Stark-Gstettenbauer, and he makes a sound with his mouth, while Hansi laughs. Andergast does it twice. Director,Hans Deppe, in buttoned up dark coat chuckles at the antics of his cast members. Next, Some closeups of boy actor Willi Johannis. The visitors are next seen heading toward cars to take them home again. Chauffeurs in German military uniforms prepare the cars. Paul Richter chats with another man as they approach the cars. Richter, Knoteck, and Angergast look backward from the car they are riding. Change of scene shows the four cast members admiring scenery in the area (perhaps on a stop during their descent from the Eagles Nest). Then, the entire visiting group is seen likewise. They point to the sky, as if they see an eagle or some notable bird aloft.
A-4 missile on a launch pad. Also known as the V-2 rocket, this missile barely makes it off of its launch pad before losing power, then tipping over. An explosion occurs and billows of smoke rise up. Launch pad on fire. Smoke rises due to the fire. (World War II period).
The Spartacist uprising (Spartakusaufstand), also known as the January uprising (Januaraufstand) in January, 1919 in Berlin. Aerial view of crowds running in a plaza. People engage in street fighting and damaging cars. A truck full of soldiers arrives at the scene. German soldiers patrolling street. Barricades on the street. German soldiers on lookout as men clear barricades. Men carry the body of a dead man, possibly Karl Liebknecht, in a bedsheet. German soldier behind street barrel barricade. Crowd walks on sidewalk at Alexander Str. behind barbed wire.
United States soldiers capture Koblenz, Germany during World War II . Aerial view of the city of Coblenz. A bridge over a stream. A soldier talks on the radio. Soldiers load shells for firing. A destroyed bridge. Soldiers cross the stream and enter the city. German soldiers surrender. United States soldiers and tanks move down the streets. Dead German soldier lay on the ground. Soldiers move through ruins and take cover. A soldier fires from within a destroyed building. A sniper in prone position aims from amongst the rubble.
Opening scene of film shows war damage with rubble at sides of street in Leipzig, Germany, during final days of World War 2, in Europe. American soldiers are hunkered down on sidewalks near buildings, attempting to combat snipers from across the street. Smoke rises from part of the building, and a white flag is seen in the window of another part of the building. Several American soldiers fire their rifles at the building. A puff of white smoke rises from the building. A Sherman tank is seen parked on the street. Shaky closeups of the target building with smoke coming from several windows. Change of scene shows a Sherman tank moving along the pathway of a tram. Closeup from behind of an American soldier firing his rifle from the corner of a building. Camera moves back showing another soldier speaking on a field telephone. Several German civilians walking past the area. Several soldiers patrolling along a sidewalk. German civilians congregating in small groups on a sidewalk. A man in one group waves a white handkerchief. Two Sherman tanks moving along a street. An American soldier hunkered down by a building corner while a uniformed German Sergeant stands calmly, next to him. A Sherman tank turns a corner on a street.
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