Germany - WWII

A 2001 ITN/Discovery Channel History, War Documentary. In World War II, lethal German U-Boats sailed all over the world wreaking havoc and destruction. This unique DVD charts the true, close-run fight that took place. With rare, original footage of actual battle scenes and interviews with U-Boat commanders and crew members from both the Allied and Axis naval forces, these three programs give the viewer an inside look at the destructive nature of these deadly "Iron Coffins". Episode 1: U-Boats were active from the first day of the war to the last. The menace provoked Winston Churchill to write, "The threat the U-Boats posed in the Atlantic was the only thing that really frightened me during the war. On their defeat hung the outcome of World War II." Witness the actions of the famed Wolf Packs in this riveting episode. Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v67ckss-u-boat-war-attack-america-episode-2.html

Episode 2: From New York to Florida, Americans were unaware that just a few miles off their shores, Hitler's U-Boats lurked ready to strike against their country. The German U-Boat fleet terrorized American coastal waters and vessel after vessel went down in one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time. Episode 3: https://rumble.com/v67ct7a-u-boat-war-iron-coffins-episode-3.html

Episode 3: The largest U-Boat housed 44 crew members who lived in their weapons of war for days on end in cramped and squalid conditions. Of the 38,000 men who fought in these machines during World War II, 30,000 would die in their iron coffins. Experience the Allied strategies and tactics of 1943 that caused the men in the U-Boats to suffer the highest mortality rate of any fighting unit in the history of war.

A German War Documentary Film. English voice-over, dubbed over the German audio, and English subtitles during intertitles. One of the rarest cinematic documents to survive the war, Germany's Front Shows offer a unique perspective of Hitler's 1941 Russian campaign. Skillfully blending German frontline footage and captured Soviet combat film, the programs depict the German soldier in battle, on forced marches, building forts and shelters, and coping with climatic hardships. Censored from the public, the features were screened to recruits to help prepare them for the realities of the east. This program Features: 01. FS 5/6 - Mountain Troops Battle for a Town (1941) Depicting the assault on Baronowice in Soviet Eastern Poland 02. FS 3 - Advance (1941) German infantry and armor traverse Russia's dusty roads, in this lively feature showing the right and wrong ways to move troops behind the front. 03. FS 2 - Russian Construction of Positions (1941) The Red Army's formidable, elaborate defensive belt German propaganda called the "Stalin Line" is shown in detail after capture. 04. FS 4 - Infantry on the Attack (1941) Supported by artillery, German infantry and soldiers of the SS Totenkopf division attack Soviet positions near the Valday Heights in late summer. 05. FS 9/10 - Construction of Positions and Shelters for the Fighting Troops or Those in Rest Areas (1941) 06. FS 7 - Attack by Infantry and Armor Against a Village (1941) 07. FS 13 - Traveling Across Ice Surfaces and Waters with Drifting Ice (1941) 08. FS 8 - Defensive Battle in Winter (1943) Filmed by an unknown German cameramen on the Leningrad Front. 09. FS 11 - Terrain Difficulties in the East, Winter and Spring (1943)

Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: Victory of Faith) is the first Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Audio in German with English subtitles. Der Sieg des Glaubens documents a Nazi Party rally, the Fifth NSDAP Congress which occurred in Nuremberg, Germany, from 30 August to 3 September 1933, in a straight chronological format. It has no voice-over or commentary. The activities captured include the welcoming of foreign diplomats and other party members and politicians – such as Franz von Papen – at the Nuremberg train station; Adolf Hitler's arrival at the airport and his meeting with important party members such as Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring; massive Sturmabteilung (SA, colloquially known as "Brownshirts") parades; and Hitler's speech on the assumption of power by the party, and the tenth anniversary of the German National Socialist movement. As he then sought to remove Röhm from German history, Hitler ordered all known copies of the film be destroyed, and it was considered lost until a surviving copy was found in the 1980s in East Germany. The events shown are in roughly chronological order, starting with the arrival of Hitler in Nuremberg and the welcome given by the Nuremberg Gauleiter, Julius Streicher. Rudolf Hess is shown sitting next to Hitler, and the Fuhrer passes him a bunch of flowers given to him by admirers. Hitler is also shown in several cameos with Ernst Röhm, then leader of the SA. The welcome includes a speech from a senior official of the Italian National Fascist Party, Arturo Marpicati, with conveyed greetings from Benito Mussolini. It is followed by the rally on the vast parade ground recently built by Albert Speer, and includes a shot of a Zeppelin airship floating by, complete with swastika on the tailfin. There is also a separate rally of Hitler Youth, with an introduction by Baldur von Schirach. There follows a march past in the streets of the old city, with the party leaders receiving the salutes of the massed goosestepping ranks of the SA and the SS. Familiar faces include Hermann Göring and a brief cameo appearance of Heinrich Himmler. Marching troops feature again in the final sequences in the main parade ground, with tributes to the fallen from Hitler and Röhm.

A 1941 German War Documentary. English voice-over, dubbed over the German audio, and English subtitles during intertitles. The film feature the conquest of Holland, Belgium and France in the spring of 1940.

Four short films from 1932 to 1943. Audio in German with English subtitles. 1. 1932 Election rally: Hitler addresses an informally-gathered civilian crowd during a 1932 election rally. 2. Feldherrnhalle Honor March: Hitler, Göring and Streicher march to the Feldherrnhalle to honor their comrades who died in the 1923 revolt in Munich. 3. Hitler's Vienna Address: Hitler's address in Vienna after the take-over of Austria in March, 1938. 4. Goebbels' Total War Speech: Excerpts from Goebbels' famous "Do you want total war?" speech of February 18th, 1943.

A 1938 UFA Documentary Film about The National Socialist Architecture since 1933, directed by Walter Hege. Audio in German with English subtitles.

A 1937 IGF Documentary Film directed by Hans Weidemann. Audio in German with English subtitles. Picking up where Triumph of the Will leaves off, this film features highlights from the Party rallies at Nüremberg in 1936 and 1937.

A 1942 German Documentary Film. Audio in German with English subtitles. Of all the campaigns of World War II, none were the natural environment and the methods of fighting it dictated more unique than in North Africa. The savagery of combat and the hostility of the Lybian desert placed unparalleled hardships in the path of the German Afrika Korps and their Allied antagonists. Their struggle against the merciless elements - and against each other - is vividly depicted in this IHF program, made up exclusively of original German World War II footage. Also featured is the legendary Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel. This dauntless German commander, who emerged as a genius of mechanized warfare, is seen and heard as he leads his troops in the desolate desert war.