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The Rise And Fall Of Nazi Germany

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keywords: wwii, nazi flag, adolf hitler, goose-step march, annexation sudetenland, polish p.o.w.'s

Synopsis: The rise and fall of Nazi Germany 1935-1945 and the efforts to rebuild Germany to become a peaceful, productive, self-supporting nation immediately after WWII...(read more)

Date: 1940's-1960's
Duration: 00:17:49
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Germany

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The Rise And Fall Of Nazi Germany

The Rise And Fall Of Nazi Germany

00:00:32;11

Street scenes in Germany after WWII with damaged and destroyed buildings in background. Broken and poverty stricken German people after WW2. Shows the German people sawing down trees for fuel to keep from freezing and searching for food to keep from starving. Nazi Germans found guilty of crimes against humanity are placed in prison in an effort to forever crush the evil Nazi doctrines that brought the world close to utter destruction.

00:01:25;07

The book Mein Kampf, cut to Nazi flags waving in the breeze. Annual Nuremberg rally of the Nazi Party. Images of Nazi Party rally at the Reichstag Building.

00:02:35;13

The poverty stricken people of Germany in the early 1930s.

In those early lean years when Adolf Hitler was campaigning for power until he became Chancellor and Fuhrer of the German Reich he promised the poverty stricken people of German that under his Nationalist Socialist Party Germany would regain all it lost under the Treaty of Versailles. He promised all of this would come to pass without bloodshed, I promise you peace.

00:03:23;22

Secret rearmament of Germany in 1935. Images of German soldiers "goose-step" march past in review. Goose-step march of boots only. Flyover of German Luftwaffe planes, hundreds of German tanks parade past.

00:03:43;03

German soldiers entering the demilitarized Rhineland on March 7, 1936 for the first time since WWI. People cheering the German troops entering the Rhineland.

00:04:20;08

German troops entering Austria (The Anschluss) on March 12, 1938. German troops are greeted by citizens as they enter Graz, Austria.

00:04:37;11

German minority in Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland in protest march demanding annexation of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. This led to the meeting in Munich of the Four Powers and signing of the Munich Agreement of 1938.

00:05:02;10

German Honor Guard. Shows Honor Guard, Present Arms position, head snaps (looks) left.

00:05:19;09

Railway (railroad) gun firing.

00:05:21;11

Nazi German High Command Officers entering Prague Czechoslovakia in Staff Automobiles followed by German troops and tanks.

00:05:32;16

Hitler waving from window of passenger train.

00:06:01;21

Railway (railroad) gun firing. Daily News Headlines read "War Starts Warsaw Bombed". Image of German soldier removing the national symbol of Poland from building.

00:06:09;18

Polish prisoners being marched off under guard to become slave labors for Nazi Germany. By September 1939 Poland was occupied by the German Army.

00:06:20;07

German and Russian military Officers meeting in Poland. Hitler makes a pact with Russia.

00:07:12;00

A line of German tanks and series of maps depicting the German Army's march across neutral Denmark, into Norway, across Holland, and Belgium, to strike a death blow at France. Brief scenes of Dunkirk.

00:08:22;09

German Army massed on the Russian border in June 1941 as Germany invaded Russia in Operation Barbarossa. Image of Hitler, with field glasses (binoculars) and group of German Officers, watch the invasion of Russia.

00:08:43;09

Newspaper headlines read "Japs Bomb Hawaii". Newspaper article reads "Hitler and Mussolini Declare War".

00:09:00;14

Russian tanks and Russian troops advancing across a snow covered battlefield. The tide of war changed after the battle of Stalingrad and the Allied Forces went on the offense in North Africa. Allied tanks and troops driving the German Army back toward it's own borders.

00:09:41;16

The Normandy beachhead as Allied tanks move forward.

00:09:52;20

Animated map showing German forces driven back toward Germany and conquered one by one.

00:09:58;17

Allied tank moves through rubble past destroyed buildings. Images of German prisoners (POWs) marched to the rear. Image of German POWs in prison compound.

00:10;21;06

Nazi Swastika at Zeppelin Field destroyed (demolished) with explosive charge.

00:10:32;06

Kammergericht building in Berlin in 1945. The Kammergericht building Headquarters of The Allied Control Council, a military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany. Map showing the Soviet (Russian), British, French, and American zones of occupied Germany.

00:11:00;07

Soviet (Russian) occupation zone of Germany, 1945.

The Russian (Soviet) zone of Germany on the east includes most of the food producing lands as well as industry. The Red Army rules this zone. Russian Army and German people living in the Russian (Soviet) zone of Germany.

00:11:45;13

British occupation zone of Germany, 1945.

The British zone in the west include the Ruhr coal and steel region of Germany in addition to Hamburg and other major seaports.

00:12:14;20

French occupation zone of Germany, 1945.

The French zone includes the industrialized Saar region of Germany.

00:12:44;00

American occupation zone of Germany, 1945.

00:13:20;03

Destruction in the Rohr region of Germany the most highly concentration center in the world. Lack of food is still a problem in post war Germany.

00:14:21;02

Railroad system in Germany and the work needed to re-build the German railroad system. Shows repairs of being done on a locomotive.