1. Spain.
In honour of the
4th anniversary of the liberation of Madrid from the Bolshevik yoke, a grand
parade of Spanish troops was held in the capital.
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Caudillo Franco on the
podium.
– Infantrymen
and sailors pass by.
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A close-up of one of
the soldiers of the Spanish ‘Blue Division’, fighting on the eastern front, who
is on the podium.
2. Ostmark,
Salzburg.
Meeting of the
Fuhrer and the Duce 29-30.4.1942. A Mercedes is rolling up to the entrance.
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Out of it come out of
the Führer and Mussolini.
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The meeting is attended
by German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, Italian Foreign Minister Ciano.
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Field Marshal General
Keitel, Colonel General Cavallero and Chief of the General Staff of the Italian
Armed Forces are talking in the hall.
– The
Berghof.
– Adolf
Hitler and the Duce
climb the stairs, on the right Field Marshal General Kesselring.
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They are in the
reception hall.
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Conversation between
the Führer and the Duce.
– Adolf
Hitler and the Duce
over a map.
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General Jodl gives
explanations at the map.
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The negotiations were
held in a spirit of friendship and unbreakable brotherhood of the armed forces
of both nations and their leaders.
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They ended with the
adoption and approval of decisions on the elimination of all forces resisting
the victory of the Third Reich after a further plan of warfare in the political
and military spheres.
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Duce and the Führer at
the exit from the residence.
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They leave Berghof by
car.
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At the railway station.
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Mussolini says goodbye
to Keitel, the generals.
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Führer’s farewell and
the Duce.
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The Führer shakes hands
with the Duce in the car window.
3. Germany.
Production
processes at one of the Krupp military plants.
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Workers in a hot shop.
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Workers and workers at
the machines.
Berlin.
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Session of the
Reichsarbeitskammer (Imperial Chamber of Labour) in the Mosaic Hall of the new
Reich Chancellery on the occasion of the ‘national day of labour’ on May 1.
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Address by Dr Ley, who
speaks of the tremendous successes on the eastern front and calls on the workers
and the whole nation to follow their example.
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Audience.
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The meeting culminates
in the awarding of honoured figures of German industry.
– Dr. Robert
Ley awards the
Reich Minister of Economics and Bank President Walter Funk, designers Ernst
Heinkel, Ferdinand Porsche.
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A number of German
enterprises were awarded the title of exemplary, they were given the right to
pin the sign of the Cross for military service to the banner of the enterprise.
4. USSR. Eastern
Front.
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Spring thaw.
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Running streams.
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Flooded terrain.
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The population of
temporarily occupied by the Germans on forced labour for the construction of
river crossings for the German army.
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Construction of dams
and dams.
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Skis and sleds are
deposited in the clothing warehouse.
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Soldiers are sent for
sanitisation.
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Treatment of clothing
in the sanitation camera.
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Medical examination.
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Soldiers in the bath.
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Soldiers receive
treated clothes.
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Soldiers on holiday.
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They are engaged in
household chores: shaving, washing clothes, washing their heads.
Soldiers playing
cards, writing letters, smoking, cleaning weapons.
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Soldiers at the gun.
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Repair of cars, buses,
tanks in the camp workshop.
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Tanks on the streets of
the village.
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Tankers receive the
order.
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The commander in his
tank.
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Tanks rush forward.
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They are on the
terrain.
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Tankers help to get out
of the jam soldiers in the boat.
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Boats and boats on the
water.
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Artillerymen ferry
ammunition on the ropeway.
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The city of Orel,
partially submerged by floods.
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Buildings and streets
flooded with water.
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The population in boats
moving through the streets.
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German soldiers in a
boat.
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Turbulent streams on
the streets of the city.
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Soldiers wash cars and
motorbikes.
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Construction of
footpaths.
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The car, specially
rebuilt, moves on the rails.
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Unloading of rubber
boots from the wagon.
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Unloading of ammunition
and materials.
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Ammunition is sent to
positions on the narrow-gauge railway.
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Unloading of goods.
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Horse-drawn carts are
carrying goods.
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Cars in the mud on the
broken road.
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The car is pulled out
of the mud.
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Car wading through the
mud.
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Stuck car.
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It is pulled out with
the help of an artillery trailer.
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The northern section of
the eastern front.
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Spring floods in Valdai.
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The convoy and soldiers
are on the water.
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The convoy in the
forest.
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Horses with difficulty
wade through the water.
5. USSR. Northern
section.
The detachment goes
through a wooded area.
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The forest, mangled by
shelling.
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Shot down tanks.
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At the positions of the
German battery.
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Officers discuss the
plan of operation.
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German guns shooting at the enemy.
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The beginning of
artillery preparation.
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Infantry preparing to
perform.
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Infantrymen move
through the water and sinking terrain.
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Burning village.
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German infantry
continues to go.
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Shot down Soviet tanks.
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German infantrymen at
rest.
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Rewarding distinguished
soldiers with iron crosses.
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Under Leningrad.
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View of the city from
German positions.
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The beginning of the
shelling of the city.
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Calculation at a heavy
gun.
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Explosions.
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The shelling of the
harbour area.
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Smoke over Leningrad.
6. Atlantic.
The coast of the
English Channel.
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German fortifications.
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Loading downed German
aircraft on platforms for shipment to Germany.
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In the German unit.
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Soldiers on holiday.
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Singing to the guitar.
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Spin gramophone record.
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Alarm.
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All rush to
anti-aircraft guns.
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Shooting German
anti-aircraft guns.
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Alarm in the flight
section.
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German fighters in the
air.
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Fragments of aerial
combat.
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Shot down English
aircraft falls.
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Another shot down
English aircraft.
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Captured pilot.
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Fighters return to the
base.
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Pilot Captain Joachim
Müncheberg, Knight of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, sits with a puppy in his
hands at the table at the circle of comrades.
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The appearance of enemy
bombers.
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German fighters take
off into the air.
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A downed bomber falls
to the ground.
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German pilot in the
car.
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Another English
aircraft falls to the ground.
