Footage of American Military Vehicles and Tanks; Camouflaged German Aircraft; Bomb Damage at Hitler’s Villa; American Solders; Berchtesgaden Part 2

Description

1) MS American tank as it passes thru road block. 2) MS bridge over autobahn - camouflaged engine beneath. 3) MS parked German aircraft in woods just off autobahn. NOTE: This is coverage of how the Germans used the autobahn as a landing strip and takeoff for fighter planes. 4) Same as sc. 3 as U.S. Military Traffic passes on road in fg. 5) MS another German aircraft parked off autobahn - traffic rolls by. 6) Another angle of same. 7) CS on German aircraft. 8) MS of aircraft camouflaged in woods off autobahn. 9) MS pan piles of bodies outside crematory at Dachau. 10) MS parked German aircraft off autobahn. 11) Closer shot of same. 12) Another angle of parked German aircraft off autobahn. 13) LS of autobahn - wrecked aircraft off road. 14) MS wrecked German aircraft off autobahn. 15) Closer shot of same. 16) LS of autobahn as wagon moves down it - German aircraft parked on side. 17) Same as military traffic rolls by. 18) LS snow-capped mountains and bombed Hitler retreat. 19) MS of town of Berchtesgaden, snow-capped mountain in bg. 20) Closer shot of same. 21) MS as man in horse-drawn cart rides thru street in Berchtesgaden. 22) MS traffic in street of Berchtesgaden. 23) Another angle as civilians walk down street. 24) MS as civilians walk past camera - dark. 25) MLS street in Berchtesgaden. 26) MS landscape around Berchtesgaden. 27) CS on portrait of Adolf Hitler. 28) MS American officers taking out loot from freight cars - this loot was delivered to Berchtesgaden. Hermann Goering. 29) MS on doorway of freight - church wood carvings are seen - statuary. 30) MCS as GIs open wooden door of carved chest. 31) MS door of freight car filled with tapestries and rugs. 32) MS as GI displays larger Persian rug. 33) LS of railroad cars which were filled with loot for Goering - GI guards in fg. 34) LS landscape around Berchtesgaden. 35) MCS on smoke screen machine near Hitler's residence. 36) MS of road leading to Hitler's Mountain Retreat. 37) MS mountain tunnel entrance - snowed under - to Hitler's place - panning up to Hitler's bldgs. 38) CS on four Tyrolean men at Berchtesgaden. 39) CS on face of Tyrolean man. 40) CS on another man. 41) CS another man. 42) CS another man. 43) CS inscription in stone "Building 1938". 44) MS pan of bomb damage of Hitler's Retreat. 45) Another angle of same. 46) MS bomb damage on road leading to Hitler Retreat - U.S. jeeps in fg. 47) MLS shooting from famous vista of Hitler's Home to mountains. 48) MS bomb damage in Hitler's residence. 49) MS bomb damage of Hitler's residence. 50) Another angle of bomb damage. 51) Another angle of bomb damage. 52) LS of bomb damage of Hitler's Retreat. 53) Another angle of same. 54) Closer shot of bomb damage of Hitler's Retreat. 55) MS as Tyrolean carries chair looted from Hitler Retreat - pan to bomb damage. 56) LS of bomb damage of Retreat.

Collection

Records of the Army Air Forces

Series

Motion Picture Films from the "Special Film Project" Program Series