1. Germany.
Romanian Marshal Antonescu’s visit to Germany.
– Adolf Hitler and Ion Antonescu entering the headquarters.
– Negotiations involving Ribbentrop and Keitel at the negotiating table.
– A meeting around a strategic map.
A vocational school for teenagers.
– Pupils at their workbenches, alongside instructors and supervisors.
– Young turners, fitters and welders at work.
– In a blacksmith’s workshop, a young man with a hammer.
– An aircraft factory.
– A completed aeroplane leaves the workshop.
– A procession of young workers – school leavers employed at the factory.
Renowned inventor Heinrich Krell at work on a new weapon.
– Other worker-inventors, innovation pioneers and top performers.
– Foreman Bruno Hartmann.
The “Tiger” – a new achievement in German tank-building.
– Reich Minister Speer and one of the professor-inventors at the test range.
– Two new tanks; the crews take their places.
– The tank’s guns.
– A commentator discusses the merits of the new tank. The ‘Tiger’ uproots a massive tree.
– The tank on terrain with extremely difficult topography.
– The tank’s turret; the gun fires at model tanks. The ‘Tiger’ smashes a tree and drives through a brick house.
2. The central sector of the Eastern Front.
German tanks being dispatched to the front line; a convoy en route.
– Unloading of ammunition and provisions near the combat zone.
– Convoys moving along washed-out roads.
– German soldiers on leave.
– Vehicles and equipment being painted.
– Vehicles and equipment on the move, travelling along muddy, potholed roads.
– A lorry towing a gun.
3. The Atlantic coast of France.
Reich Minister Speer inspects the Atlantic Wall fortifications.
– Workers from the Todt Organisation at work.
– Earth-moving machinery in operation.
– Workers at a sawmill.
– Concrete works.
– Preparing sand and water, mixing concrete.
– A concrete mixer is in operation.
– Concrete being laid.
– Construction of reinforced concrete fortifications; compacting the concrete.
– Installation of heavy guns using a powerful crane.
– Workers reinforcing the gun’s base.
– Assembly of the gun barrel; its transport by five lorries.
– Assembly work.
– View of the completed section of the Atlantic Wall, being coated with camouflage paint.
– The gun is being moved into the bunker.
– Assembly of the gun barrel, its final adjustment, painting and polishing. Fortifications and construction work on the Atlantic coast.
– At the command post.
– The barrel of a heavy gun.
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