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II. Léon Degrelle addresses Flemish audience in Berlin. Knights Cross holder, one of the most dedicated leaders in the fight against Bolshevism and in the struggle for Young Europe, enters hall crowded with Flemish soldiers and workers to deliver an urgent call for unity. He asserts it would be the purest madness to think that Bolshevism could bring the slightest trace of Civilisation or Renewal. In live excerpt he declares that not only the middle class will be ruined (foutu) if Bolshevism triumphs in Europe, "but you too the workers also". Close-ups of the audience pick out one Flemish member of the Organisation Todt, a man wearing an Olympic rings tie and another who conceals his identity behind a paper held to his face. (End of Reel 1)
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I. State funeral of Generaloberst Dietl. Flashback to General Dietl stepping out of car and inspecting Gebirgsjäger in sunny forest clearing (Norwegian campaign?) prefaces funeral of this "model in the German Officer Corps and best friend of his soldiers". To sound of Siegfried's Funeral March Hitler enters hall, followed by Keitel and Bormann, and offers condolences to widow and daughters (in BdM uniform) and son, whom he chucks on the cheek. Gathering also includes von Ribbentrop, Doenitz, Himmler and Milch. Hitler then mounts podium to deliver funeral address, reportedly describing the Hero of Narvik as the embodiment of the National Socialist officer, and lays wreath. All stand and give Nazi salute as coffin is borne out and lifted onto gun carriage.
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III. (Reel 2) German infantry training school. New grenadiers demonstrate in exercise latest battle techniques learnt from instructors with front-line experience: firing 12cm Grw, closing MG 34, exploiting camouflage, loading mortar, fixing bayonet and firing infantry gun. Oberstleutnant Bärenfänger tells young soldiers (live) that it is now up to them to go and act in the old spirit of the Infantry. Youths march off singing "Wir die Grenadiere" and become formidable mass marching along road.
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IV. Germans inflict heavy losses in Normandy. Animated map from Antwerp to Brest. Coastal batteries open fire in area of Cherbourg and Orne Estuary against supply vessels seeking to make good reported heavy Anglo-American losses. Enemy naval shells explode ashore and enemy ship is hit. Beached landing craft (LC A 779 - already shown in GWY 222), carton marked "14 Men Compo - Property of US Govt" and large ferry loaded with wrecked trucks suggest enemy losses; coastal roads are strewn with wrecked armour and matériel, including truck marked with 7th Armoured Division symbol and name Betty Joyce. Road sign Villers Bocage stands peppered by gunfire after tank battle involving "strong US armoured unit"; knocked out Stuart, Cromwell and Sherman (7th Armoured Division) suggest defeat. US prisoners enter holding camp; cartoons of females on uniforms are equated with similarly tasteless designs worn by "terror bandits" (USAAF aircrew); close-up of US 101st Airborne Division eagle insignia. SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich (commanding 1st SS-Panzerdivision Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler) stands at his battle HQ with an Army general; SS Panzergrenadiers rest temporarily and soldiers of 12th SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend pass along road and through wood. Other views of knocked out Allied armour, showing tanks named Pistolpackinmamma, Blondie and Alice II, precede German counterattack near Bayeux: Wespe SPGs and Pzkpfw IVs advance, Nebelwerfers open fire and smoke from burning villages obscures sun. Signal flare is fired and rocket missiles are launched by 15cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Sf (Sdkfz 4/1), Nebelwerfer and schwere Wurfrahmen 40. Flamethrowing tank and infantry continue battle.
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I. State funeral of Generaloberst Dietl. Flashback to General Dietl stepping out of car and inspecting Gebirgsjäger in sunny forest clearing (Norwegian campaign?) prefaces funeral of this "model in the German Officer Corps and best friend of his soldiers". To sound of Siegfried's Funeral March Hitler enters hall, followed by Keitel and Bormann, and offers condolences to widow and daughters (in BdM uniform) and son, whom he chucks on the cheek. Gathering also includes von Ribbentrop, Doenitz, Himmler and Milch. Hitler then mounts podium to deliver funeral address, reportedly describing the Hero of Narvik as the embodiment of the National Socialist officer, and lays wreath. All stand and give Nazi salute as coffin is borne out and lifted onto gun carriage.
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II. Léon Degrelle addresses Flemish audience in Berlin. Knights Cross holder, one of the most dedicated leaders in the fight against Bolshevism and in the struggle for Young Europe, enters hall crowded with Flemish soldiers and workers to deliver an urgent call for unity. He asserts it would be the purest madness to think that Bolshevism could bring the slightest trace of Civilisation or Renewal. In live excerpt he declares that not only the middle class will be ruined (foutu) if Bolshevism triumphs in Europe, "but you too the workers also". Close-ups of the audience pick out one Flemish member of the Organisation Todt, a man wearing an Olympic rings tie and another who conceals his identity behind a paper held to his face. (End of Reel 1)
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III. (Reel 2) German infantry training school. New grenadiers demonstrate in exercise latest battle techniques learnt from instructors with front-line experience: firing 12cm Grw, closing MG 34, exploiting camouflage, loading mortar, fixing bayonet and firing infantry gun. Oberstleutnant Bärenfänger tells young soldiers (live) that it is now up to them to go and act in the old spirit of the Infantry. Youths march off singing "Wir die Grenadiere" and become formidable mass marching along road.
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IV. Germans inflict heavy losses in Normandy. Animated map from Antwerp to Brest. Coastal batteries open fire in area of Cherbourg and Orne Estuary against supply vessels seeking to make good reported heavy Anglo-American losses. Enemy naval shells explode ashore and enemy ship is hit. Beached landing craft (LC A 779 - already shown in GWY 222), carton marked "14 Men Compo - Property of US Govt" and large ferry loaded with wrecked trucks suggest enemy losses; coastal roads are strewn with wrecked armour and matériel, including truck marked with 7th Armoured Division symbol and name Betty Joyce. Road sign Villers Bocage stands peppered by gunfire after tank battle involving "strong US armoured unit"; knocked out Stuart, Cromwell and Sherman (7th Armoured Division) suggest defeat. US prisoners enter holding camp; cartoons of females on uniforms are equated with similarly tasteless designs worn by "terror bandits" (USAAF aircrew); close-up of US 101st Airborne Division eagle insignia. SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich (commanding 1st SS-Panzerdivision Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler) stands at his battle HQ with an Army general; SS Panzergrenadiers rest temporarily and soldiers of 12th SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend pass along road and through wood. Other views of knocked out Allied armour, showing tanks named Pistolpackinmamma, Blondie and Alice II, precede German counterattack near Bayeux: Wespe SPGs and Pzkpfw IVs advance, Nebelwerfers open fire and smoke from burning villages obscures sun. Signal flare is fired and rocket missiles are launched by 15cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Sf (Sdkfz 4/1), Nebelwerfer and schwere Wurfrahmen 40. Flamethrowing tank and infantry continue battle.
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35mm