German newsreel excerpts (R1 of 2)
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Reel 1, Part 1 shows German amphibious training in Northern Europe. Part 2, Gen. Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses and travels in a scout car in North Africa. Tearful civilians observe Rommel's funeral cortege passing. Gen. Runstedt places Hitler's wreath on the bier. Part 3, on the German retreat from Finland: refugees and military supply trains move along the Arctic Highway. Crates of civilian and military equipment are piled on a railway platform and loaded into freight cars. Part 4, antitank guns are fired and German tanks advance in Romania's Grosswardein sector; Romanian POW's are searched; German infantry creep through a grain field. Part 5 shows tanks and artillery firing and panzerfaust units in action in the Siegfried Line, demolished U.S. equipment, and German infantry and armor moving along a road
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