Volk Im Krieg

About this film

National Archives description: "Reel 1 shows plowing and grain harvesting scenes; food supplies in storage; a freight train being unloaded and refueled; steeplechase and bicycle races, boxing, and a soccer game; dancers performing in an opera; a symphony orchestra playing; artillery, battleships, and aircraft; and metal being melted and molded in a gun factory. Reel 2, gun barrels are lathed and milled. Shows stockpiles of rifles, heavy artillery, antiaircraft guns, and shells. German troops drill. A ship is launched. Ammunition is stored aboard a battleship. Tanks are tested. Reel 3, coal is loaded into cars and taken from a mine. Shows blast furnaces; activity in a gun factory; a battleship's guns ready for action; fighter planes in formation; male and female personnel in a chemical plant; a textile mill's interior; the manufacture and testing of synthetic rubber; telephone switchboard activity; army uniforms being made; street scenes; women machinists and welders at work; children in a nursery school, laughing at a puppet show, attending school, and making model airplanes." National Archives Identifier: 43462

Directors & creators

Office for Emergency Management. Office of Alien Property Custodian

Subjects

WWII, National Socialism, World War II, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, German, World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, German, World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- Germany

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