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  1. French Campaign

    Luftwaffe pilots, Paris, Red Cross nurse, officers, overflight, airfield (color film), Fieseler Storch, military cemetery

  2. Great Britain and Iceland in 1937

    Statue of Queen of England, guards marcing through England, British guards marching, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, street performers, speakers and spectators, socialism, ferris wheel, tourists on beach, graveyard, farmer with horse

  3. Luftwaffe film on a Stuka (dive bomber) unit

    donkey, well, occupied trails, German soldiers in Greece, dogs, Acropolis, cyclists, military band, civilians (Jews?) constructing roads, construction of wooden hut in a forest, Eifel Tower, aerial shots of snow, mother and child, groups of Carbines marching

  4. Russian Campaign, private films

    heavy industry, construction, railways, industrial plants, large production hall, horse cart, ferry, airfield, shooting from a flying plane

  5. Aircraft defense unit 4/1945; Würzburg in ruins 1946/47

    vapor trails of American aircraft in sky, flak helper, church in Geldersheim, boys with steel helmets, several girls in uniform, burning buildings, bombing, Wurzburg ruins, various pictures of destroyed churches, civilians on a country road, view from the mountain on the main, rubble, various settings and details of destroyed homes and church buildings

  6. Execution in occupied Poland

    Winter, scaffolding, Wehrmacht officers, escorting of prisoners to platform (ten people, one woman, man to be hanged could be a Jew)

  7. Nazi officials at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung (color)

    AGFA 1940. Officials gather outside the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich for the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung [Great German Art Exhibition] which took place from July 16 to October 15, 1939. 00:02:06 Otto Nippold, NSDAP Gauleiter in München-Oberbayern, smiling, before other officials in uniform. Gauleiter Adolf Wagner (in brown uniform at 00:02:16) gestures and speaks with other officials, woman in flowered dress and hat. Spectators gather for the occasion. Nippold walks on red carpet. 00:02:40 Nippold with NSKK-Obergruppenfuehrer Helmuth Oldenbourg (in brown uniform), Fuehrer of Motor...

  8. Boelke squadron (color film) Russian Campaign

    Russian campaign, Boelcke Squadron

  9. Images of Rabenstein/Chemnitz Building of an air-raid shelter

    Glove factory AFIRA, children in uniform, sanitary unit, exercising BDM (League of German Girls), Jungvolk, everyday life, manufacturing of gloves (color film)

  10. The German Gdansk

    Once upon a time under the Kurenwimpel, Als wir den Plön banden, historic land along the Vistula

  11. East Prussia, Breslau

    Several short documentaries with titles on East Prussia, Silesia, Transylvania, Refugee Camp in Denmark

  12. German troops

    Mountain troops

  13. Man and silence

    Man and silence, Fishermen Hunting in Trakehnen, Folk art, The German Order’s land

  14. Regions in East Prussia

    Village in Masuria, different regions East Prussia, village life, Ermlander horse, Trakehner, Stud Trakehnen, Gutswirtschaft, field work in a four-wheeler, Memel lowlands, downtown Königsberg, downtown, fish market and downtown, drive on the Pregel through Königsberg, harbor, Modern Königsberg

  15. The German East

    Bessarabia - Germans, villages, agriculture, horse-drinking, rain, fishing, crafts, peasant woman, church, children play and dance, large ponds, volcanic mountain, Thanksgiving, potato harvest

  16. Land by the sea

    Caribou, snowy, forests, boats, beach, bathers, trolley

  17. Island East Prussia; The Elk’s East Prussian shelter

    Elks, the Marienburg Grobtes Monument, the Munsterwalder bridge, train travel over the Baltic Sea, Cherry County, Bishop of Ermland, fishing village, snow and cold in East Prussia

  18. Bayreuth in 1934

    Olympic Games, motor race with Silver Arrows, motorcycle race in Hanover

  19. Day of the Wehrmacht

    (from the Bundesarchiv)

  20. Soviet war newsreel: Struggle for East Prussia and Königsberg 1944/1945

    forest, soldiers, cannons, air attacks