Enthusiastic German People Donate Warm Clothing for the Soldiers on Eastern Front.;
Finnish Troops Counterattack in East Karelia.;
Skis are a Necessity in Snowbound Eastern Front.;
In Leningrad Sector German Infantry Prevents a Bolshevik Breakout over the Neva River.;
Heavy Combat near Sevastopol in Crimea.;
At the time of his death in 1942, Dr. Fritz Todt was among the most powerful men of the Third Reich. By training a civil engineer, Todt first caught Adolf Hitler’s attention in 1932 by emphasizing the importance of road building for national economic recovery. Upon taking power, the Führer made Todt responsible for what would become Germany’s great Autobahn project. Every aspect of Autobahn construction – its design, aesthetic (to harmonize with the German landscape), and model role in National-Socialist labor relations – was stamped with Todt’s personality. As was his other great achievement, the building of the massive network of bunkers and fortifications known as the West Wall – described here as the first battle in the war against France. With the outbreak of war, Todt’s organization provided German troops an exemplary corps of engineers, filling out Germany’s expanding imperium with new roads, bridges, aircraft fields, and fortifications. All of this is lavishly documented in this film, which supplies extensive and often rare footage of Todt’s life and work, concluding with remarkable footage from his state funeral inside the Chancellory in Berlin.
Grossdeutschland Regiment in Action near Moscow.;
Reich Marshal Göring in Conference with France’s Marshal Petain.;
One of the two U-boats that sank British Carrier Ark Royal Returns to Port.;
German and British Fighter Planes in a Dogfight over the English Channel.;
Colonel General Guderian’s Panzers Attack Southwest of Moscow.;
Italian and German Troops Battle the Brits and New Zealanders in North Africa.
State Funeral of Ernst Udet, Chief Air Inspector General of the Luftwaffe.;
Heavy Artillery Pounds Strategic Targets in Leningrad.;
Important Rail Junction of Tikhvin Captured by German Troops.;
Deep Frost Impedes the Advance to Moscow.;
Infantry Units Reach the Crimean Capital Simferopol.;
German Troops Enter the Historic City of Yalta on the Black Sea.;
Stukas Attack Enemy Tanks and Troop Concentrations on the Libyan-Egyptian Border.
Directed by: Fritz Hippler
Release dates:1938
Running time: 10 minutes
Country: National-Socialist Germany
Language: German
The film begins with a montage of clips from the Weimar period, showing a series of clips of Labour and Communist rallies, interspersed with scenes of scantily clad cabaret girls, and then shots of the posters of the different Weimar era political parties. this illustrates the chaos and decadence of the Weimar period. This sequence ends with social-democrat Otto Braun making a ridiculous speech against National-Socialism.
The film then goes into a series of sequences showing how the National-Socialist rule has improved various aspects of German life:
Mop-up Operations in Karelia.;
Winter Clothes and Supplies Reach the Eastern Front.;
Attack on Soviet Outer Defence Ring near Moscow.;
The Soviet Industrial Hub of Kharkov Captured by the Wehrmacht.;
German Advances in the Crimean Peninsula.;
Victory Parade of Odessa Veterans in Bucharest.;
General Rommel Decorates Valorous Afrika Korps Soldiers.;
Naval Action on the English Channel.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Count Ciano Visits Hitler at his Wolfsschanze Headquarters.;
Finnish Divisions Advance South of Lakes Ladoga and Onega.;
Knee-deep Mud Hampers Supply Convoys in the Leningrad Area.;
Soviet Stronghold of Kaluga captured by German Troops.;
The Historic Battlefleld of Borodino Penetrated by Waffen-SS and General Hoeppner’s Panzers.;
In the Southern Sector of the Front German Infantry Advance on Kharkov.;
