Armaments officials, Nazi leaders at conferences, weapon inspections
Creator(s)
- Walther Rohland (Producer)
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
Scope and Content
1941-1944 Armaments specialists at conferences and weapons demonstrations, including Armaments Minister Albert Speer, Hitler, Himmer, military and industrial leaders. Reel 2: Events of 6 and 7 June, 1943, in Hillersleben, Germany. Participants in front of the conference building, talking to each other and posing for the camera. Goebbels, Speer, others, exit the building. Conference participants watch a demonstration of flamethrowers. Interior shot of men eating in a large dining hall. Porsche waves to the camera. A large group of the participants, in uniform and civilian dress, stand outside the conference building, talking and smoking. 01:03:20 close view of Milch. 01:04:37: Moehnetalsperre: Speer visits a rebuilt retaining wall on October 1943. He speaks to a group of Organization Todt members, then presents medals to some of the men. Goerner and Dr. Xaver Dorsch in conversation. Gotenhafen [Gdansk], 22-25 October, 1943: Doenitz, Speer, others visting the Cap Arcona on October 22-25, 1943. The ship in harbor and at sea, performing exercises. U-boats perform exercises. The Cap Arcona was the scene of an atrocity on May 3, 1945. The SS loaded over 5, 000 survivors of a death march from Neuengamme on to the ship and positioned it in the Bay of Neustadt in Luebeck, in a location where the British would mistake it for a military transport. The British bombed the ship, and only 450 prisoners survived. 01:12:38 Events from 4-6 September, 1943 in Rechlin, Germany. Group of men inspecting airplanes and a V-1 rocket. A ju 52 airplane lands at an airfield and Speer gets out of the airplane. 01:14:28 September 30 - October 1, 1943, at the Fuehrerhauptquartier (FHQ) in Rastenburg, East Prussia. A group of men (high-ranking officers and civilians) stand in front of the FHQ. They confer in various groups and consult documents. Hitler appears with others, including Schaub and Speer. Hitler, Himmler, others at the FHQ train station. Close-ups of a tank attempting to travel over railroad tracks, while Hitler and others observe. Men lean out of a train window, looking into the camera. 01:20:28 Events from 23-24 June, 1944. Footage shot from a car travelling through Linz, Austria. Group of men, including Speer, Goerner, Porsche, Saur. Very bad quality scenes of a group of people in front of a cloister. Group includes Mrs. Speer and pianist Wilhelm Kempf and violinist Professor Kulenkampff, who gave a concert for those attending the armaments conference. Reel 3: 01:21:28 FHQ in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 10-12 August, 1942. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen, others, arriving in an airplane. Speer, Krupp, others, outside the FHQ. Bodenschatz, Milch, Sauckel. Somewhat better quality. Street scenes in Vinnitsa. A few shots of the residents of the city, including men repairing roads under German guard. 01:29:10 Back at FHQ. Group of men outside among the trees. Walter Frentz, Speer, Bormann, Goering, Heinrich Hoffmann, others. Group of men at the airfield. 01:31:25 Speer travelling by car through Holland and Belgium in fall 1944. Scenes shot from the car. Houses, fields, people riding bicycles. Group of men stand outside a building. More street scenes, in a city. 01:34:36 Speer and others in Grevenbroich, Germany, May 1944, inspecting construction of a bunker. 01:35:13 Speer on a trip to Luxembourg in the Mosel region, 10 and 11 July, 1944. Facade of the Hotel Simonis. Speer inspects members of the Organisation Todt, gives an autograph to a woman. Shots of a burning "Heerestanklager" in the distance. More scenes from the car. Group of men in discussion. 01:38:06 Speer speaks with a group of men in the region of Ardennes, France, during a visit to the western front from 15-31 December, 1944. Cars travels along a road, military vehicles along the side of the road. Destroyed American tanks. Good close-up of Speer waving at the camera from the car. Speer plays with a St. Bernard.
Note(s)
Bundesarchiv documentation based on identification of individuals by Albert Speer at the Bundesarchiv. See files for detailed descriptions, especially specific identification of various individuals. Scenes include: Uwe-Dietrich Adam, Herbert Backe, Otto Backenkoehler, Hans Baur, Karl Bodenschatz, Erwin Bohr, Albert Bormann, Martin Bormann, Walter Buhle, Karl Cliever, Gerhard Degenkolb, Otto Dietrich, Karl Doenitz, Xaver Dorsch, Gerhard Engel, Richard Fiebig, Walter Frentz, Friedrich Fromm, Karl Frydag, Walther Funk, Edmund Geilenberg, Hermann Giesler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering, Franz Hahne, Karl Hettlage, Walther Hewel, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Hoffmann, Fritz Holzhaeuer, Theo Hupfauer, Rudolf Jordan, Karl Kaufmann, Wilhelm Keitel, Wilhelm Kempff, Alfred Krupp von Bohlen, Heinz Kueppenbender, Georg Kulenkampff, Hans Heinrich Lammers, Hans Leyhers, Willi Liebel, Friedrich Lueschen, Hans Malzacher, Otto Merker, Erhard Milch, Theo Morell, Paul Pleiger, Ferdinand Porsche, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hermann Roechling, Walther Rohland, Fritz Sauckel, Karl-Otto Saur, Hans-Joachim Schaede, Julius Schaub, Walter Schieber, Fritz Schmelter, Rudolf Schmundt, Arthur Schroeder, Richard Schulze-Kossens, Georg Seebauer, Albert Speer, Margarethe Speer, Gustaf Adolf Steengracht, Carl Stobbe-Dethleffsen, Emil Stuertz, Josef Terboven, Arthur Tix, Albert Voegler, Kurt Waeger, Karl Wolff, Kurt Zeitzler.
Subjects
- CAP ARCONA (SHIP)
- HOTELS
- AUSTRIA
- SPEECHES
- UNIFORMS
- AIRPORTS
- KEITEL, WILHELM
- CITIES
- GUNS
- EATING
- CARTS/WAGONS
- GOEBBELS, JOSEPH
- HIMMLER, HEINRICH
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
- CHURCHES
- BELGIUM
- MILITARY EXERCISES
- HITLER, ADOLF
- FHQ (FUEHRERHAUPTQUARTIER)
- AUTOBAHN
- SHIPS
- TANKS
- TRAIN STATIONS
- SUBMARINES
- RAILCARS
- CONFERENCES
- TRAINS
- HOFFMANN, HEINRICH
- ORGANISATION TODT
- MILITARY OFFICERS
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- HORSES
- INDUSTRIALISTS
- MILCH, ERHARD
- AUTOMOBILES
- SPEER, ALBERT
- TRUCKS
- PORTS
- AIRPLANES
- BRIDGES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ITALIAN)
- DOGS
- GOERING, HERMANN
- GERMANY
- NETHERLANDS
- INDUSTRY (GERMAN)
- RAIL SYSTEMS
- AWARDS
- BICYCLES
- DOENITZ, KARL
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- CHILDREN
- UKRAINE
- WEAPONS/ARMS
- ROCKETS
- RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON
- CHICKENS
- FRENTZ, WALTER
Places
- Linz, Austria
- , Soviet Union
- , Belgium
- Grevenbroich, Germany
- Hamburg, Germany
- , Netherlands
- , Luxembourg
- Gdynia, Poland
- Moehnesee, Germany
- Ardennes, Belgium
- Hillersleben, Germany
- Rechlin, Germany
- Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany
- Vinnitsa, Ukraine
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.
Copies
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