UFA NR 447 [Main Title]

I. Hitler and Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass. Hitler's train pulls into station where Mussolini, Ciano and German Ambassador von Mackensen are waiting for Führer and von Ribbentrop. Leaders step into train for "friendly talks lasting several hours" before emerging into snow. Hitler reviews Bersaglieri unit before train pulls out.

II. First Anniversary of Slovak independence. Führer's special delegation to anniversary celebrations cross Danube bridge linking Austria to the Slovak capital, Bratislava. President Tiso is driven in a coach and four to Freedom Square where units of the Slovak Army are drawn up on parade. Crowds give fascist salute. Units then parade through Bratislava past Minister President Tuka in military uniform and Defence Minister Catlós and other dignitaries including many Germans and a single Hungarian. Background signs in German are visible. Parading units include cavalry, anti-aircraft and searchlight detachments.

III. Vienna Trade Fair. After success of Leipzig Fair, Vienna's equivalent is proof of the undiminished strength of the German economy. Flags flying include the Stars and Stripes. Latest inventions are demonstrated, including a cutting machine. Cranes stand on display outside Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz pavilion.

IV. German locomotive production. Production scenes in a locomotive factory from first casting and pressing to completed railway engine moving along track. German locomotives have demonstrated their excellence worldwide.

V. Thaw in Central Europe. Icebergs on the Danube at Vienna (unrecognisable), ice in Hamburg harbour and traffic in Königsberg harbour show the gradual return of normal shipping activity.

VI. Deer in Bavarian Alps Deer come down through winter snow to feed on hay put out by peasants. (End of Reel 1)

VII. Berlin gymnastic school for girls. Teenage girls perform backwards somersaults and other contortions under supervision in training school for artistes.

VIII. Spanish Naval School. Boys of the Flechas Navales (naval branch of the Spanish youth movement) practise signalling and climbing up rigging of training ship Galatea, which demonstrates special attention given to the training of youth in Franco's new Spain. Boys march past naval captain who wears yoke and arrows emblem of Falange.

IX. Exhibition of Japanese applied arts in Berlin. Civilians and soldiers on leave visit an exhibition which includes many items of armour, including a helmet decorated with the oriental left-handed swastika, at the House of German Handicraft.

X. German mountain rescue service. Mountain rescuers of the Bergwacht ski and climb to the aid of a mountaineer injured in a fall and bring him to safety using ropes and a sledge.

XI. German Army honours the dead of both sides. Wooden crosses mark the graves of French, British and German soldiers on the Western Front who are honoured by the firing of a salute. Names are Le Restif (1908-30/9/39), Jery J Magnez (1918- 30/9/39), Lieutenant Everitt of the Norfolk Regiment (7/1/40), Gefreiter Otto Riedel and Schütze Heinz Rupp.

XII. Wehrmacht assist Winter Relief collection. Children enjoy fun and games, including a barrow race, at one of the many barracks opened to the public to promote this annual charity collection. One of the two-and-a-half million badges distributed in Berlin is pinned on a donor.

XIII. Berlin Wachregiment parades down Unter den Linden. To the accompaniment of "Deutschland über Alles" Wachregiment resumes its traditional parade, halted since the outbreak of war, passing beneath the Brandenburg Gate. A Fieseler Storch lands and takes off from in front of the Ehrenmal on Unter den Linden.

XIV. Generaloberst von Brauchitsch inspects Western Front defences. Commander-in-Chief tours anti-tank defences newly built by the Organisation Todt, some of whose members he decorates with the Schutzwallehrenabzeichen as they stand in the snow.

XV. Night anti-aircraft exercise 8.8cm Flak is elevated, searchlight switched on and light flak prepared for firing during practice alarm in Western Germany.

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