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II. Convalescent home in Poland for German and allied students. Home at foot of Beskid Mountains in General Government bears name of Reichsstudentenführer Dr Scheel, under whose organisation it was established. Wounded, including some wearing foreign legion armshields (Italia ?), sit in sun, work in study bedrooms, relax and dine indoors, and participate in games outside: ping-pong, long-jump, shot-put (one-handed man), high-jump (one-legged man) and swimming. Shared experience at front has led to strong sense of belonging together (Gemeinschaft).
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I. Architect Wilhelm Kreis designs Nazi monuments. Professor Kreis, placed in charge of construction of German war cemeteries by the Führer and appointed President of Reichs Chamber of Fine Arts by Dr Goebbels, sketches and signs in his studio draft of memorial arch on top of hill. Sketch of neo-classical building with ten-columned portico, of monumental proportions. Model of Hall of Honour to the German Soldier for new OKH building in Berlin is one of his designs for reconstruction of Reichs capital.
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III. Légion des Volontaires Français recruits arrive at German training camp. Soldiers in French uniforms and berets, including one wearing five French medal ribbons, arrive at camp (Sennelager ?) carrying cases. Soldiers respond with French salute to welcoming German heil. Recruits, now wearing German helmets and French Légion armshields, parade past with flag, are inspected and then swear oath of allegiance to flag marked La France au Régiment des Volontaires Français.
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IV. National contest for Hitler Youth signallers in Vienna. Team of young signallers set up wireless link by laying cable and erecting aerial, watched by Gauleiter of Vienna von Schirach, Reichsgruppenführer Axmann and other Hitler Youth leaders who have served on Eastern Front, including one wearing three tank destruction badges on his upper right sleeve and Oberbannführer Gerhard Hein, who holds Oak Leaves to Knights Cross. Boys climb aerial, erect F sign (Fernsprecher) and report completion of test.
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V. Ice-hockey at Berlin's Sportpalast. Match between two Berlin teams marks opening of ice-hockey season, watched by many servicemen including Waffen SS personnel.
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VI. Japanese Ambassador to Germany visits Atlantic Wall. General Oshima alights from train which pulls into station on French Atlantic coast and departs by car to tour Germany's coastal defence installations. Oshima looks out over coast and listens to explanation by General wearing Knights Cross, before looking through rangefinder periscope at vessel offshore. Japanese party take leave of their hosts before departing by train past German guard of honour on platform.
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VII. Germans prepare for winter on Arctic front. Food supplies including sausages and Purana brand ersatz coffee are unloaded from Norwegian vessel Tento docked in Arctic Ocean port (Petsamo ?). Powerful snowploughs drive down steep road and sledges and skis are stacked, although only snow yet visible is on peaks of surrounding hills. Junkers Ju 52s drop planks (interior and exterior views) over inlet, where troops collect them from barren shore for use in building winter accommodation, roofed with asbestos and insulated by turf clods. Small unit of soldiers line up to swallow obligatory spoonful of cod liver oil, grimacing at taste.
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VIII. Generaloberst Dietl with his men on Lapland front. Dietl walks across log planking and through devastated wood to visit positions on his front. Inside hut he presents Knights Cross and portrait to Oberjäger Dietl, who distinguished himself when storming a hill, and sits with him in mess.
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IX. Battlefield of Krivoi Rog after German counterattack. Animated map of Smolensk to Zaporozhe. Battles on Eastern Front are marked by resolute German counteroffensives, as at Krivoi Rog (German signpost) where wrecked tanks, dead Russians, T-34 in lake and captured Russian flak and artillery litter battlefield. During pause in fighting grenadiers eat from field-kitchen. Victory rings on 8.8cm Flak indicate circa 40 planes and 25 tanks destroyed. On road west of Smolensk Generalleutnant Traut, holder of Oak Leaves to Knights Cross, visits his men in the frontline trenches and looks at map. Germans fire light and heavy mortars against enemy attack. Junkers Ju 87s bomb enemy concentrations, filmed from ground and air; camera beneath fuselage records release of single large bomb; another shows release of four smaller bombs. Stukas also attack tanks with cannon fire (clear film). (End of Reel 1)
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X. (Reel 2) Germans defend Volturno sector on Italian front. Two Pzkpfw IVs, representing German reinforcements for Italy, slowly manoeuvre down sinuous mountain road. 8.8cm Flak in Volturno sector opens fire against enemy single-fin bombers overhead, creating black puffs in sky and causing planes to jettison bombs short of bridge target. "US" bomber spirals earthwards in distance; close-up shows Berlin B slogan on fuselage of crashed plane. Elsewhere on Italian front Germans clear rubble from streets of bombed Italian mountain and demolish railway lines with explosive charges to delay enemy. Grenadiers take up new positions, position and camouflage Nebelwerfer. Artillery returns enemy's fire and Paratroops mortar and demolish five-spanned bridge over river.
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XI. Germans send reinforcements to Greece by ship and air. Animated of Aegean Sea showing Leros underlined. Land and sea views of an island capital. Supply ship protected by 2cm Flakzwilling brings reinforcements and supplies. Elsewhere Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant, with elephant emblem and "Peterle" marking, takes off and flies to sound of Ride of the Valkyries over Mediterranean landscape and sea, with cockpit and gun turret views., escorted by Messerschmitt Bf 109s. Three Me 323s fly low over sea and land. Front loading doors are opened and halftracks, Pak and Sdkfz 251 towing gun are unloaded.
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XII. Doenitz and Speer watch S-boats and U-boats at sea. Grossadmiral and Reichsminister see Germany's most successful attack vessels. Six S-boats practise night attack on convoy, turning away after firing torpedoes; Fieseler Storch flies past and records aerial shot of depth charge exploding, part of simulated response by enemy to German U-boats ready to attack. Speer, wearing Organisation Todt armband, is next seen aboard U-boat, on deck before vessel submerges, in engine room, passing through vessel, looking through periscope, following track of torpedo through water, and seated in mess with U-boats officers and Admiral drinking brandy before U-boat surfaces. Standing on deck of review ship with Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Suhren, Speer with Doenitz at his side sees twelve Type VII U-boats sail past, all armed with Flak and with painted white bands round conning towers and with crews standing on deck.
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I. Architect Wilhelm Kreis designs Nazi monuments. Professor Kreis, placed in charge of construction of German war cemeteries by the Führer and appointed President of Reichs Chamber of Fine Arts by Dr Goebbels, sketches and signs in his studio draft of memorial arch on top of hill. Sketch of neo-classical building with ten-columned portico, of monumental proportions. Model of Hall of Honour to the German Soldier for new OKH building in Berlin is one of his designs for reconstruction of Reichs capital.
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II. Convalescent home in Poland for German and allied students. Home at foot of Beskid Mountains in General Government bears name of Reichsstudentenführer Dr Scheel, under whose organisation it was established. Wounded, including some wearing foreign legion armshields (Italia ?), sit in sun, work in study bedrooms, relax and dine indoors, and participate in games outside: ping-pong, long-jump, shot-put (one-handed man), high-jump (one-legged man) and swimming. Shared experience at front has led to strong sense of belonging together (Gemeinschaft).
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III. Légion des Volontaires Français recruits arrive at German training camp. Soldiers in French uniforms and berets, including one wearing five French medal ribbons, arrive at camp (Sennelager ?) carrying cases. Soldiers respond with French salute to welcoming German heil. Recruits, now wearing German helmets and French Légion armshields, parade past with flag, are inspected and then swear oath of allegiance to flag marked La France au Régiment des Volontaires Français.
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IV. National contest for Hitler Youth signallers in Vienna. Team of young signallers set up wireless link by laying cable and erecting aerial, watched by Gauleiter of Vienna von Schirach, Reichsgruppenführer Axmann and other Hitler Youth leaders who have served on Eastern Front, including one wearing three tank destruction badges on his upper right sleeve and Oberbannführer Gerhard Hein, who holds Oak Leaves to Knights Cross. Boys climb aerial, erect F sign (Fernsprecher) and report completion of test.
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V. Ice-hockey at Berlin's Sportpalast. Match between two Berlin teams marks opening of ice-hockey season, watched by many servicemen including Waffen SS personnel.
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VI. Japanese Ambassador to Germany visits Atlantic Wall. General Oshima alights from train which pulls into station on French Atlantic coast and departs by car to tour Germany's coastal defence installations. Oshima looks out over coast and listens to explanation by General wearing Knights Cross, before looking through rangefinder periscope at vessel offshore. Japanese party take leave of their hosts before departing by train past German guard of honour on platform.
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VII. Germans prepare for winter on Arctic front. Food supplies including sausages and Purana brand ersatz coffee are unloaded from Norwegian vessel Tento docked in Arctic Ocean port (Petsamo ?). Powerful snowploughs drive down steep road and sledges and skis are stacked, although only snow yet visible is on peaks of surrounding hills. Junkers Ju 52s drop planks (interior and exterior views) over inlet, where troops collect them from barren shore for use in building winter accommodation, roofed with asbestos and insulated by turf clods. Small unit of soldiers line up to swallow obligatory spoonful of cod liver oil, grimacing at taste.
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VIII. Generaloberst Dietl with his men on Lapland front. Dietl walks across log planking and through devastated wood to visit positions on his front. Inside hut he presents Knights Cross and portrait to Oberjäger Dietl, who distinguished himself when storming a hill, and sits with him in mess.
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IX. Battlefield of Krivoi Rog after German counterattack. Animated map of Smolensk to Zaporozhe. Battles on Eastern Front are marked by resolute German counteroffensives, as at Krivoi Rog (German signpost) where wrecked tanks, dead Russians, T-34 in lake and captured Russian flak and artillery litter battlefield. During pause in fighting grenadiers eat from field-kitchen. Victory rings on 8.8cm Flak indicate circa 40 planes and 25 tanks destroyed. On road west of Smolensk Generalleutnant Traut, holder of Oak Leaves to Knights Cross, visits his men in the frontline trenches and looks at map. Germans fire light and heavy mortars against enemy attack. Junkers Ju 87s bomb enemy concentrations, filmed from ground and air; camera beneath fuselage records release of single large bomb; another shows release of four smaller bombs. Stukas also attack tanks with cannon fire (clear film). (End of Reel 1)
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X. (Reel 2) Germans defend Volturno sector on Italian front. Two Pzkpfw IVs, representing German reinforcements for Italy, slowly manoeuvre down sinuous mountain road. 8.8cm Flak in Volturno sector opens fire against enemy single-fin bombers overhead, creating black puffs in sky and causing planes to jettison bombs short of bridge target. "US" bomber spirals earthwards in distance; close-up shows Berlin B slogan on fuselage of crashed plane. Elsewhere on Italian front Germans clear rubble from streets of bombed Italian mountain and demolish railway lines with explosive charges to delay enemy. Grenadiers take up new positions, position and camouflage Nebelwerfer. Artillery returns enemy's fire and Paratroops mortar and demolish five-spanned bridge over river.
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XI. Germans send reinforcements to Greece by ship and air. Animated of Aegean Sea showing Leros underlined. Land and sea views of an island capital. Supply ship protected by 2cm Flakzwilling brings reinforcements and supplies. Elsewhere Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant, with elephant emblem and "Peterle" marking, takes off and flies to sound of Ride of the Valkyries over Mediterranean landscape and sea, with cockpit and gun turret views., escorted by Messerschmitt Bf 109s. Three Me 323s fly low over sea and land. Front loading doors are opened and halftracks, Pak and Sdkfz 251 towing gun are unloaded.
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XII. Doenitz and Speer watch S-boats and U-boats at sea. Grossadmiral and Reichsminister see Germany's most successful attack vessels. Six S-boats practise night attack on convoy, turning away after firing torpedoes; Fieseler Storch flies past and records aerial shot of depth charge exploding, part of simulated response by enemy to German U-boats ready to attack. Speer, wearing Organisation Todt armband, is next seen aboard U-boat, on deck before vessel submerges, in engine room, passing through vessel, looking through periscope, following track of torpedo through water, and seated in mess with U-boats officers and Admiral drinking brandy before U-boat surfaces. Standing on deck of review ship with Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Suhren, Speer with Doenitz at his side sees twelve Type VII U-boats sail past, all armed with Flak and with painted white bands round conning towers and with crews standing on deck.
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