"Narrator:" "ITWAS1938." "THIS FOOTAGE, NEVER BEFORE SEEN," "WAS SHOT BY AN AMERICAN FAMILY" "VACATIONING IN GERMANY." "THEIR HOME MOVIE CAPTURED THE" "GLORY OF HITLER'S THIRD REICH." "ONE NATION." "ONE PEOPLE." "UNITED BEHIND ONE LEADER." "AND POISED TO CONQUER THE WORLD." "woman:" "NOLONGERDOESAGERMAN" "NEED TO BE ASHAMED TO BE GERMAN." "WE ONCE AGAIN HAVE OUR HONOR." "Narrator:" "BUTIN THEEND ," "THE THIRD REICH WOULD BRING" "EVERY GERMAN ETERNAL SHAME." "man:" "YOUMARKMYWORDS..." "IF WE ARE DEFEATED..." "WE WILL BE GIVEN NO QUARTER." "WE WILL BE STARVED TO DEATH" "OR BUTCHERED." "THAT WILL BE THE FATE OF EVERY GERMAN..." "WHETHER HE IS A NAZI OR NOT." "Narrator:" "THESEARETHEIRWORDS..." "THEIR FILMS." "THIS IS THE FALL..." "OF THE THIRD REICH." "IT WAS SEPTEMBER OF 1938." "FOR WEEKS, GERMANS LIKE ELSE KLAMROTH" "AND HER FAMILY" "HAVE LIVED UNDER THE THREAT OF WAR." "AT THE TIME OF HER DAUGHTER" "WIBKE'S BIRTH, HITLER DEMANDED" "THAT A PORTION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA" "BE RETURNED TO GERMANY." "INSTEAD OF FIGHTING," "ON SEPTEMBER 29, THE EUROPEAN" "POWERS GAVE IT TO HIM." "NOW, WIBKE'S FATHER WOULDN'T BE" "GOING TO WAR AFTER ALL." "Klamroth:" "HITLERHASWON A" "MASSIVE VICTORY WITHOUT A BATTLE." "FAITH AND ADMIRATION OF OUR" "GREAT FUHRER HAVE STRENGTHENED" "AND DEEPENED EVEN WHEN I THOUGHT" "THAT WAS NO LONGER POSSIBLE." "Ebermayer:" "NOBODY WANTS WAR." "EVERYONE IS DOING SO WELL." "WE'RE EARNING MONEY!" "WE HAVE A CAR..." "A REFRIGERATOR..." "A RECORD PLAYER." "WHAT IS THE POINT OF WAR?" "man:" DOYOUREMEMBERGERMANY" "IN THE DAYS BEFORE ADOLF HITLER?" "TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FACTORIES" "HAD CLOSED THEIR GATES." "MILLIONS OF WORKERS LOST THEIR JOBS." "NOW THE NATIONS AROUND US LOOK" "WITH AMAZEMENT WHEN THEY SEE THE" "UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC GROWTH" "THAT HAS OCCURRED IN GERMANY" "OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS." "THE GERMAN MIRACLE." "Narrator:" "THEMIRACLEWAS" "BEING FINANCED IN PART BY LAND" "AND RAW MATERIAL STOLEN FROM" "OTHER COUNTRIES." "BUT IF YOU WERE GERMAN, WHAT" "MATTERED TO YOU WAS THAT THERE" "WAS REGULAR WORK AND EVEN" "STATE-SUBSIDIZED LEISURE." "woman:" "ITWASOUR FIRSTREAL HOLIDAY." "SIX MEALS A DAY;" "LOTS OF COURSES AT LUNCH" "SERVED BY UNIFORMED WAITERS." "THERE WAS MUSIC, DANCING," "NEW FILMS AND LECTURES." "BEFORE ONLY THE RICH COULD DO THAT." "Narrator:" "BUTNOTEVERYONE" "EXPERIENCED THE GERMAN MIRACLE." "THIS CRUISE LINER, THE ST." "LOUIS," "TOOK WORKERS AND NAZI" "PARTY LEADERS ON EXCURSIONS TO" "ITALY, NORWAY AND THE WEST INDIES." "SOON, THE ST." "LOUIS WOULD TAKE" "ANOTHER GROUP OF GERMANS ON A" "VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF VOYAGE." "ON NOVEMBER 9, THE NAZIS" "UNLEASHED A 2-DAY ORGY OF" "VIOLENCE ON JEWISH BUSINESSES," "PLACES OF WORSHIP AND JEWS THEMSELVES." "THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW EXISTING" "FILMS OF WHAT CAME TO BE KNOWN" "AS KRISTALLNACHT," "OR 'NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS.'" "HERE IN THE TOWN OF BUEHL," "FIREMEN ARE SEEN IGNORING THE" "BURNING SYNAGOGUE AND WORKING" "INSTEAD TO SAVE THE ARYAN HOMES" "AND BUSINESSES NEXT DOOR." "MEANWHILE, THE RESIDENTS OF" "BUEHL STAND AND WATCH." "Fritzch:" "TODAY,THEMORNING" "AFTER, I WATCHED MY FELLOW" "PASSENGERS ON THE TRAIN." "ONLY A FEW PEOPLE LOOKED UP OUT" "THE WINDOW TO SEE THE BURNING" "SYNAGOGUES." "Friedrich:" "EVERYONE'S" "EXPRESSION SEEMS SOMEHOW TO BE" "ASKING FORGIVENESS." "BUT IF EVERYONE IS ASHAMED," "WHO SMASHED THOSE WINDOWS?" "Narrator:" "INMAYOF1939 ," "THE ST." "LOUIS SAILED FROM GERMANY" "WITH NEARLY 1,000 JEWISH REFUGEES." "3 WEEKS LATER, THEY WERE TURNED AWAY" "BY CUBA, THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA." "THE ST." "LOUIS RETURNED TO EUROPE." "WITHIN THE YEAR, MOST OF ITS" "PASSENGERS WOULD ONCE AGAIN BE" "UNDER NAZI RULE." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 20thOFAPRIL ,1939- " "IN BERLIN." "HITLER'S 50th BIRTHDAY." "AND THIS WOULD BE THE BIGGEST" "BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN THE" "HISTORY OF MANKIND." "THE SPECTACLE HERE WAS RIVALED" "ONLY BY THE PASSION" "OF THE FUHRER'S FOLLOWERS." "Reck-Malleczewen:" "I WITNESSED" "THE FESTIVITIES." "I HEARD THE CLAMOR..." "SAW THE ENRAPTURED FACES OF THE WOMEN." "THROUGH IT ALL, THIS MORONIC" "ROAR OF "HEIL!"" "HYSTERICAL FEMALES, ADOLESCENTS" "IN A TRANCE, AN ENTIRE PEOPLE IN" "THE SPIRITUAL STATE OF WHIRLING DERVISHES." "THESE PEOPLE..." "ARE INSANE." "woman:" "DEARFUEHRER..." "I WISH YOU FOR THE COMPLETION" "OF YOUR 50th YEAR OF LIFE," "GOD'S GREATEST BLESSING." "I HAVE NEVER BEEN AMONG THOSE" "WHO WRITE LETTERS." "BUT NOW, THE CONSTANT THOUGHT--I" "SHOULD BE THE FUEHRER'S WIFE." "girl:" "I WANTTO GIVE" "UNCLE HITLER SOMETHING" "ON HIS BIRTHDAY." "BUT I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING." "MOMMY HAD TO WRITE THIS SINCE" "I'M ONLY 4 YEARS OLD." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE SUMMEROF1939." "HERE IN A SMALL TOWN NEAR" "CHEMNITZ, THE WUESTNER FAMILY" "WAS FILMING THEIR SON KONRAD AND" "HIS LITTLE BROTHER IN THEIR GARDEN." "THE TITLE CARD HERE READS," ""KONRAD WANTS TO GO TO THE PARTY" "RALLY IN NUREMBERG."" "300 MILES AWAY, THIS HITLER" "YOUTH TROOP WAS FILMING THEIR" "BIKE TRIP TO THE POLISH BORDER." "IT'S LIKELY THAT THEY, TOO, WERE" "LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ANNUAL" "PARTY RALLY." "BUT WITHIN DAYS OF THIS TRIP." "HITLER CANCELED IT." "THIS YEAR'S THEME WOULD HAVE" "BEEN "RALLY OF PEACE."" "INSTEAD, GERMANY WOULD WAGE WAR" "DIRECTLY ACROSS THIS BORDER." "DURING THE SUMMER OF 1939," "IF YOU WENT TO THE MOVIES" "IN GERMANY, YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN" "PROPAGANDA FILMS LIKE THIS:" "(man speaking German)" "THE NAZIS CLAIMED THAT THE POLES" "WERE TERRORIZING ETHNIC GERMANS" "NEAR THE BORDER." "IN TRUTH, 21 OF THESE ATTACKS" "HAD BEEN STAGED BY THE NAZIS THEMSELVES," "TO JUSTIFY WAR." "(radio tuning) malereporter:" "WE INTERRUPT" "THIS BROADCAST... (crowd cheering)" "THE FUHRER, WHO HAS JUST ARRIVED" "TO ADDRESS THE REICHSTAG," "WHICH HAS BEEN CALLED IN" "EXTRAORDINARY SESSION... (man shouting in German)" "(radio) ..." "FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS" "EVENING HAS SHOT AT REGULAR" "SOLDIERS UPON OUR TERRITORY." "(man shouting in German)" "(radio) FOR FROM NOW ON," "BOMB WILL BE MET BY BOMB." "(crowd chanting)" "IF YOU WERE GERMAN, YOU KNEW" "THAT THIS, FINALLY, WOULD MEAN" "WAR WITH ENGLAND AND FRANCE." "ANOTHER WORLD WAR." "BUT YOU MAY HAVE ALSO BELIEVED," "LIKE HANS GEORG KLAMROTH, THAT" "YOU HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO DEFEND" "GERMAN BLOOD AND GERMAN HONOR." "Klamroth:" "DEARELSE,IFI" "SURVIVE THESE HOURS, I SHALL" "CERTAINLY THINK OF THEM EVERY DAY." "IT WOULD BE A PITY IF WERE TO DIE," "AND SAD FOR YOU AND THE CHILDREN." "BUT WHAT ARE WE COMPARED TO THE" "GREATNESS OF DESTINY?" "(train whistle)" "Narrator:" "ITWASSEPTEMBER4,1939..." "THE THIRD DAY OF GERMANY'S" "ASSAULT ON POLAND." "BUT THAT MORNING, ACROSS GERMANY," "PEOPLE AWOKE TO AN ENEMY THREAT" "IN THEIR OWN BACKYARDS." "(airplane taking off)" "SOME TIME IN THE NIGHT," "BRITISH BOMBERS HAD FLOWN INTO" "GERMAN AIRSPACE AND DROPPED 13 TONS" "OF PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS ON THE" "PEOPLE BELOW." "(whistle) man:" "WARNING!" "FROM ENGLAND TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE:" "THE TRUTH HAS BEEN WITHHELD FROM YOU." "YOU CANNOT WIN THIS WAR." "WE WILL NOT RELENT." "PASS THIS LEAFLET ON." "Narrator:" "MEANWHILE,IN POLAND," "GERMAN BOMBERS WERE" "LEVELING CITIES." "WARSAW, POLAND." "AMERICAN FILMMAKER JULIAN BRYAN" "WAS THE LAST WESTERN JOURNALIST" "LEFT IN THE CITY DURING THE" "NAZIS' SIEGE." "HE WOULD LATER SMUGGLE THIS FILM" "OUT OF THE COUNTRY." "Bryan:" "ONEDAY,IHADA" "CHANCE TO TAKE PICTURES OF 20" "OR MORE GERMAN SOLDIERS." "I ASKED THEM WHY THEY WERE" "INFLICTING SUCH TERRIBLE" "TORTURES UPON THE POLISH PEOPLE." "THEY ANSWERED AS ONE, "WIR" "MUSSEN."" ""WE MUST."" "Narrator:" "THEGERMANONSLAUGHT" "LASTED FOR 18 DAYS," "BEFORE POLAND FINALLY SURRENDERED." "FROM WARSAW, HANS GEORG KLAMROTH" "WROTE HIS WIFE..." "Klamroth:" "SHOCKINGDESTRUCTION" "OF THE CITY." "IF THEY HAD SURRENDERED SOONER," "IT WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED." "BUT THE POLES ARE VERY PROUD," "THEY HATE US, AND I CAN'T BLAME THEM." "(metal clanking)" "AT ANY RATE, WE'RE GRATEFUL THAT" "THE WAR HASN'T COME TO OUR" "COUNTRY, AND I HOPE IT NEVER WILL." "(men singing in German)" "man:" "ANDNOWFOR ENGLAND." "I HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA OF" "WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ME." "THIS MUCH I DO KNOW" "GERMANY WILL PREVAIL." "EVEN IF EUROPE HAS TO BE TURNED" "INTO RUINS AND ASHES." "WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE GODS," "AND THEY ARE MOST MERCIFUL." "Narrator:" "ITWASJUNE1940 ." "IN ONLY SIX WEEKS, GERMANY" "HAD CONQUERED THE NETHERLANDS," "NORWAY, DENMARK, AND BELGIUM." "Fuchs:" "DEARMADI,ITISWONDERFUL" "WHAT OUR SOLDIERS ARE ACHIEVING." "TODAY, WE CAN BE PROUD TO BE" "GERMAN SONS AND DAUGHTERS." "LOVE, KARL." "Narrator:" "BUTAS THENAZIS" "SPREAD THROUGH EUROPE, SO DID" "STORIES OF THEIR ATROCITIES." "SLAVE LABOR." "DEPORTATIONS." "MASSACRES." "IT WAS REPORTED THAT STORKS" "MIGRATING FROM HOLLAND TO" "SOUTH AFRICA HAD MESSAGES TAPED TO" "THEIR LEGS READING, "HELP US:" "THE NAZIS ARE KILLING US ALL."" "BY MID-JUNE, GERMANY HAD ALSO" "CONQUERED FRANCE." "(woman singing in German)" "ACROSS EUROPE, GERMAN TROOPS" "LIKE THESE ENJOYED THE SPOILS OF" "THEIR SUCCESS." "SOME, LIKE WALTER LENGER, FILMED THEM." "OTHERS, LIKE KARL FUCHS," "WROTE HOME ABOUT THEM." "Fuchs:" "DEARMOTHER,I'VESEEN" "QUITE A BIT OF FRANCE SO FAR." "BUT AGAIN AND AGAIN I SAY TO MYSELF," "THERE'S NOWHERE AS BEAUTIFUL" "AND CLEAN AS OUR GREAT" "GERMAN FATHERLAND." "YOURS, KARL." "Narrator:" "FROMTHEOCCUPIEDCOUNTRIES," "GERMAN TROOPS SHIPPED HOME" "WINES, CHEESES, PAINTINGS" "AND JEWELRY." "FROM POLAND..." "THEY SHIPPED HOME" "PEOPLE..." "TO BE USED AS SLAVES." "man:" "GERMANS:" "THEPOLEMUST" "NEVER BE YOUR COMRADE." "HE IS INFERIOR TO EACH GERMAN," "ON HIS FARM OR IN HIS FACTORY." "(pig squeals)" "BE JUST, BUT NEVER FORGET THAT YOU" "ARE A MEMBER OF THE MASTER RACE." "(woman singing in German)" "Wolff-Monckenberg:" "ISIT POSSIBLE" "THAT ONE CAN GET USED TO WAR?" "WE STILL HAVE OUR COMFORTS AND WARMTH." "WE HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT." "AND OCCASIONALLY, WE EVEN HAVE" "HOT WATER." "Sievert:" "WHENITHINKHOW" "TERRIFIED WE WERE OF AIR RAIDS" "BEFORE THE WAR," "YOU COULD ALMOST CALL THEM HARMLESS." "WAR IS NOT SO BAD IF IT GOES ON" "LIKE THIS." "Narrator:" "BUTIT WOULDNOT GO" "ON LIKE THIS FOR LONG." "THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH" "WOULD BEGIN IN THE EAST." "(radio crackling)" "(men singing on radio)" "Dolker-Rehder:" "BYCHANCE,MYHUSBAND" "TURNS THE RADIO ON THIS MORNING." "WE ARE AT WAR WITH RUSSIA." "(shell whistles, explodes)" "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 22ndOFJUNE, 1941," "AND 3 MILLION GERMAN TROOPS" "WERE INVADING THE SOVIET UNION." "Dolker-Rehder:" "IT'STHESEVENTHCONFLICT" "IN ONE-AND-A-HALF YEARS..." "POLAND, NORWAY," "HOLLAND, BELGIUM, FRANCE," "AFRICA, YUGOSLAVIA, GREECE." "WELL, OUR PEOPLE ARE SO PATIENT" "AND STRONG." "WE'RE NOW TAKING ON RUSSIA AS WELL." "NO ONE DOUBTS" "THAT WE WILL WIN THERE, TOO." "Narrator:" "WILHELMBLEITNER" "FILMED THIS FOOTAGE OF HIS" "UNIT, THE 29th INFANTRY DIVISION," "AND THEIR MARCH TOWARD" "THE SOVIET CITY OF STALINGRAD." "HE AND HIS COMRADES EXPECTED" "THAT THE SOVIET UNION WOULD" "SURRENDER IN LESS THAN 5 MONTHS." "Fuchs:" "DEARLYBELOVEDMADI," "TODAY WAS A DAY OF PRIDE" "FOR US ALL." "VICTORIOUSLY, WE MARCHED" "INTO LITHUANIA." "YESTERDAY I KNOCKED OFF" "A RUSSIAN TANK." "IF I GET IN ANOTHER ATTACK," "I'LL RECEIVE MY FIRST BATTLE STRIPES." "WAR IS HALF AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS," "AND ONE THING IS PLAIN AS DAY..." "ALL OF US BELIEVE IN AN EARLY VICTORY." "YOURS, KARL." "(men singing in German)" "Reinhardt:" "DEARMRS.FUCHS," "I HAVE THE SAD DUTY TO INFORM YOU" "THAT KARL WAS KILLED" "ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE." "I HOPE IT WILL BE A SMALL" "CONSOLATION FOR YOU, WHEN I TELL" "YOU THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE" "SO THAT OUR FATHERLAND MAY LIVE." "SIGNED, LIEUTENANT REINHARDT," "COMPANY COMMANDER." "Narrator:5 DAYSAFTERKARLFUCH 'SDEATH," "WILHELM BLEITNER FILMED THIS SCENE" "SOMEWHERE ALONG THE EASTERN FRONT." "THE SIGN READS: "THESE BEASTS" "OF RUSSIAN REGIMENT 239," "MUTILATED AND KILLED" "ALREADY-WOUNDED GERMAN SOLDIERS."" "KARL FUCHS DIED KNOWING ONLY THE" "GLORY OF THE THIRD REICH." "NOT WHAT WOULD FOLLOW." "Narrator:" "ITWASSUMMER,1941 ..." "AND THESE GERMAN TROOPS WERE" "AMONG THE 3 MILLION SPREADING EAST" "ACROSS THE SOVIET UNION." "(marching band playing)" "(locomotive whistle blows)" "(men singing in German)" "IN LETTERS HOME AND ON FILM," "THEY DOCUMENTED TRIUMPH AFTER TRIUMPH." "Reese:" "OURDESTINYISPUSHINGUS." "THERE IS NOTHING BUT VICTORIOUS" "ENCIRCLEMENTS, ADVANCES," "AND EXTRAORDINARY NUMBERS" "OF CAPTIVES AND BOOTY FROM" "THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN." "OUR VICTORY IS NEVER IN DOUBT." "Narrator:" "SOMEOF THEMEN WHO" "BROUGHT THEIR CAMERAS" "ALSO DOCUMENTED SOMETHING ELSE." "THE FILMS YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE" "DEPICT VIOLENCE AND MURDER." "VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED." "(indistinct German voices, laughter)" "THIS HOME MOVIE SHOWS GERMANS" "STATIONED IN THE EAST..." "ENJOYING THEIR TIME ON LEAVE." "THE REST OF THE FILM ON THIS" "REEL WAS SHOT IN ZOLOCHIV, UKRAINE." "HERE, THOSE SAME GERMANS OVERSAW" "THE EXTERMINATION OF 3 TO 4" "THOUSAND JEWS." "THIS IS LIBAU, LATVIA." "AN OFF-DUTY GERMAN NAVAL OFFICER" "STATIONED NEAR HERE FILMED THESE" "JEWS BEING LED TO A TRENCH" "OUTSIDE OF TOWN." "(gunshot)" "THE KILLINGS CONTINUED UNTIL THE" "TRENCH WAS FULL." "AND THEN ANOTHER TRENCH WAS DUG." "Kretschner:" "BELOVEDWIFE," "DEAR CHILDREN..." "YOU NEEDN'T WORRY THAT WE ARE" "LIVING BADLY HERE." "WE HAVE TO EAT AND DRINK WELL" "BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF OUR WORK." "I DO NOT WANT TO WRITE ABOUT IT" "ANY FURTHER." "IT WOULD ONLY MAKE YOUR HEART HEAVY," "NEEDLESSLY." "Narrator:" "THISFOOTAGEWAS" "FILMED BY A GERMAN SOLDIER," "HOME ON LEAVE" "FROM THE EASTERN FRONT." "FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAD SERVED THERE" "RARELY TALKED ABOUT WHAT THEY HAD SEEN" "AND DONE IN THE EAST." "BUT WILLY REESE, A 21-YEAR-OLD SOLDIER," "WROTE THIS WHEN HE RETURNED" "TO GERMANY:" "Reese:" "MARCHEDINTORUSSIA." "MURDERED THE JEWS." "STRANGLED THE WOMEN." "KILLED THE CHILDREN." "EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT WE BRING." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE SPRINGOF1942." "AND IF YOU WERE GERMAN, LIFE" "DURING WARTIME WASN'T MUCH" "DIFFERENT THAN LIFE BEFORE." "(woman singing in German)" "BUT THAT WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE." "Fischer:" "ABOVE,IN FRONT,BEHIND," "HELL HAS BROKEN LOOSE." "Narrator:" "THEREHADBEENAIRRAIDS BEFORE," "BUT NOT LIKE THIS." "FROM HIS BEDROOM WINDOW," "PETER FISCHER FILMED AS 1,000 BRITISH" "BOMBERS LAID SIEGE TO COLOGNE." "IT WAS THE LARGEST AIR RAID" "OF THE WAR TO DATE." "THE NEXT DAY, FISCHER HAD TO" "HIDE HIS CAMERA TO FILM THE" "DEVASTATION OF HIS CITY." "DOCUMENTING SCENES LIKE THESE" "WAS OUTLAWED BY THE NAZIS." "Fischer:" "MEN,WOMENAND CHILDREN" "LIE DEAD UNDER THESE RUINS." "THE FIRST OF THEM ARE NOW BEING" "RECOVERED AND LAID OUT" "ON THE SIDEWALKS." "Narrator:" "BUTCOLOGNE" "WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING." "BY NOW, THE UNITED STATES" "HAD JOINED ENGLAND" "IN THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY." "DAYS LATER, THE ALLIES FOLLOWED" "THE COLOGNE AIR RAID" "WITH ANOTHER RUN." "THIS TIME, THEY DROPPED TENS OF" "THOUSANDS OF WARNING LEAFLETS" "OVER GERMAN TOWNS." "man:" "WEAREBOMBINGGERMANY" "CITY BY CITY AND EVER MORE TERRIBLY," "TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU" "TO GO ON WITH THE WAR." "LET THE NAZIS DRAG YOU DOWN TO" "DISASTER WITH THEM, IF YOU WILL." "THAT IS FOR YOU TO DECIDE." "WE ARE COMING BY DAY AND BY NIGHT." "(train whistle)" "(rolling typewriter platten)" "Narrator:" "ITWASJUNEOF1942." "IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE 45,000 GERMANS" "MADE HOMELESS BY THE" "ALLIED AIR RAIDS ON COLOGNE," "YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN PROCESSED HERE," "IN THIS REFUGEE CENTER" "OUTSIDE THE CITY." "YOU'D BE GIVEN FOOD, MEDICAL" "TREATMENT, AND A SHOWER." "YOU MIGHT ALSO RECEIVE PERSONAL" "ITEMS LEFT BEHIND BY JEWS" "WHO HAD BEEN YOUR NEIGHBORS." "THE SAME WEEK THAT THE NAZIS" "WERE CARING FOR THE PEOPLE IN" "THIS REFUGEE CAMP, THE WORLD" "FIRST LEARNED ABOUT OTHER GERMAN" "CAMPS IN EASTERN EUROPE." "THERE, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF" "JEWS WERE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY" "EXTERMINATED." "(locomotive whistle blows) man:" "MYMOTHERSAW THE JEWS" "TRANSPORTED FROM THE STATION." "THEIR BAGGAGE WAS LOADED" "SEPARATELY INTO A FREIGHT TRAIN." "BUT WHEN THE TRAIN WITH THE PEOPLE LEFT," "THE FREIGHT CAR WITH THE BAGGAGE" "STAYED THERE." "IT DIDN'T GO WITH THEM." "(children laughing and shouting)" "(choir singing: "O Tannenbaum")" "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE HOLIDAYSEASON,1942." "JOSEPH ECKSTALLER FILMED HIS" "CHILDREN, FRANZ AND LIESL," "DECORATING THE CHRISTMAS TREE." "(woman singing in German)" "CHRISTMAS CAME WITH SACRIFICE" "THIS YEAR." "FOOD RATIONS HAD BEEN TIGHTENED." "BUTTER, MEAT, SUGAR AND COFFEE" "WERE REPLACED WITH IMITATION FOODS..." "SOME MADE WITH POTATO MEAL OR" "WOOD PULP." "BUT FOR GERMAN TROOPS IN THE EAST," "IT WAS MUCH, MUCH WORSE." "(men shouting, distant gunfire  horns)" "Groscurth:" "ALLTHEHORSESHAVE BEEN EATEN." "IN THE TENTH YEAR" "OF OUR GLORIOUS REICH," "WE ARE STANDING BEFORE" "ONE OF THE GREATEST" "CATASTROPHES IN HISTORY." "(whistle of shell)" "Narrator:" "FOR6MONTHS," "THE GERMANS HAD BEEN FIGHTING" "THE RED ARMY FOR CONTROL OF" "THE SOVIET CITY OF STALINGRAD." "(shells whistling, explosions)" "(rumble and squeak of track vehicle)" "(explosion)" "(boom of artillery)" "BY DECEMBER, THE SOVIETS HAD" "SURROUNDED THE GERMAN TROOPS..." "AND SEVERED THEIR SUPPLY LINES." "(whistle of falling bombs)" "AT HOME, GERMANS WERE TOLD THAT" "THEIR SOLDIERS WOULD RATHER DIE" "THAN SURRENDER." "(choir singing "Stille Nacht"...)" "Clark:" "ATTHEMOMENT,HEROICBATTLES" "ARE TAKING PLACE NEAR STALINGRAD." "OUR 6th ARMY IS SURROUNDED THERE." "WILL THEY HAVE TIME TO SHOOT THEMSELVES" "AT THE LAST MOMENT?" "("Stille Nacht" ends)" "Narrator:" "ONCHRISTMASDAY ALONE, 1,280 GERMAN SOLDIERS" "DIED IN STALINGRAD." "FIVE WEEKS LATER, GERMANS HEARD" "THIS BROADCAST:" "(static)" "(man speaking German)" "IN TRUTH, 91,000 GERMAN SOLDIERS" "HAD SURRENDERED AGAINST HITLER'S ORDERS." "86,000 OF THESE MEN WOULD DIE." "AND THE REST WOULD NOT RETURN TO GERMANY," "UNTIL 1955." "AFTER STALINGRAD," "THE GERMANS BEGAN TO DOUBT" "THE NAZIS' PROMISE OF TOTAL VICTORY." "ONLY A FEW SUSPECTED THEIR TRUE FATE..." "TOTAL DEFEAT." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE SPRINGOF1943." "THIS PROPAGANDA FILM SERIES WAS" "PRODUCED TO CELEBRATE THE THIRD REICH" "AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS" "DOMINANCE IN EUROPE." "(airplane engine)" "(heroic music)" "BUT IF YOU WERE GERMAN," "YOUR LIFE LOOKED NOTHING LIKE THIS." "(bomb whistle)" "(multiple bomb whistles)" "(people shouting in distance)" "(shoveling and sound of elephant lowing)" "(bomb whistle)" "THE BERLIN ZOO WAS ONLY ONE OF" "THE CITY'S BOMBING CASUALTIES." "IN 1943, THE ALLIES INCREASED" "THE TONNAGE OF BOMBS THEY" "DROPPED ON GERMANY" "25 TIMES." "(whistle of bomb)" "THE BRITISH BOMBED BY NIGHT." "THE AMERICANS, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT." "(bombs whistling)" "(piano, and bombs whistling)" "(explosion)" "(airplane engines)" "(melancholy song in German)" "Mockneberg:" "SIRENS..." "ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS..." "LONG LISTS OF THE FALLEN..." "GAS AND MURDER..." "MUD AND ICE..." "HUMAN BEINGS BURNED ALIVE..." "AND CHARRED CORPSES..." "AND YET, WE ARE TOLD OF A" "GOLDEN FUTURE AND FINAL VICTORY." "(woman singing operatically)" "Narrator:" "BUTMOSTNOW REALIZED," "NO MATTER WHAT THE NAZIS PROMISED," "THEY WERE GOING TO LOSE THE WAR." "(lively music playing)" "AND SO MANY BEGAN BEHAVING" "LIKE THEY HAD NOTHING TO LOSE." "(ocean waves)" "(marine motor)" "(diving fighter)" "(klaxon and indistinct voices)" "Fromke:" "IT'SIMPOSSIBLE." "THERE CAN'T BE THAT MANY SHIPS" "IN THE WORLD." "(series of booms)" "Narrator:" "HEREIN THEOUTSKIRTS" "OF BERLIN..." "THESE TEENAGERS FLED THE WAR AND" "THE RUINS OF THE CITY," "FOR A MOMENT IN THE SUN." "600 MILES AWAY," "THE LARGEST INVASION" "IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD" "WAS UNDERWAY." "LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN GERMANY," "THESE TEENAGERS WOULD SOON BE" "AT THE MERCY" "OF THE APPROACHING ALLIES." "BUT THEY WERE ABOUT TO FIND OUT" "THAT NOT ALL OF GERMANY'S ENEMIES" "WOULD BE..." "MERCIFUL." "(indistinct voices)" "(dramatic music)" "(man speaking German)" "IN THIS NEWSREEL," "THE NAZIS CLAIMED THAT HERE," "IN THE GERMAN VILLAGE OF NEMMERSDORF, 62 WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS WERE RAPED," "AND MURDERED," "BY THE RED ARMY." "IF YOU WERE GERMAN," "YOU KNEW NOW WHAT TO EXPECT..." "WHEN THE RED ARMY" "REACHED YOUR DOORSTEP." "man:" "THEHOUROFREVENGE" "HAS STRUCK." "DO NOT COUNT DAYS." "DO NOT COUNT MILES." "COUNT ONLY THE NUMBER OF GERMANS" "YOU HAVE KILLED." "KILL THE GERMAN." "THIS IS THE CRY OF YOUR RUSSIAN EARTH." "KILL THE GERMAN." "Narrator:" "AUGUST,1944." "THIS IS HANS GEORG KLAMROTH." "THESE ARE HIS HOME MOVIES." "HE WAS AN OFFICER, A HUSBAND," "AND A FATHER." "AND FOR TEN YEARS, HANZ GEORG" "WAS ALSO A LOYAL NAZI." "BUT AS THE WAR DRAGGED ON," "HE'D BECOME CONVINCED THAT HITLER" "WAS LEADING GERMANY TO ITS DOOM." "AND SO, IN THE SUMMER OF 1944," "WHEN HE LEARNED OF A PLOT" "TO ASSASSINATE THE FUHRER," "HE TOLD NO ONE." "HANS GEORG KLAMROTH" "WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH" "BY HANGING." "HE WROTE HIS WIFE:" ""TEACH THE CHILDREN TO PRAY." "I KNOW NOW WHAT IT MEANS."" "HOURS LATER," "AS HE SLOWLY STRANGLED TO DEATH," "HIS PANTS WERE PULLED DOWN" "AROUND HIS ANKLES--FOR HITLER'S CAMERAS." "HIS FAMILY TOOK ONE SMALL COMFORT..." "THAT HE DID NOT LIVE TO SEE" "WHAT WOULD BECOME OF GERMANY." "(airplane engine)" "IT WAS THE EARLY FALL OF 1944..." "AND THE ALLIES WERE NOW CLOSING IN..." "ON GERMANY." "(planes flying overhead)" "(distant gunfire)" "IN THE EAST, THERE WAS CHAOS." "MILLIONS OF TERRIFIED GERMAN CIVILIANS" "FLED FROM THEIR HOMES" "AHEAD OF THE ADVANCING RED ARMY." "woman:" "WETOOKASMANY OF" "OUR BELONGINGS AS POSSIBLE..." "AND FOUND OUR WAY OUT OF TOWN" "AMIDST A HEADLESS MASS" "OF FLEEING PEOPLE." "BEHIND US, THE TOWN WAS IN FLAMES." "Narrator:" "EVACUATIONPLANS" "FOR GERMAN CIVILIANS WERE..." "INADEQUATE, AT BEST." "HITLER EXPECTED HIS PEOPLE" "TO STAND THEIR GROUND" "AND FIGHT TO THE DEATH" "FOR THE FATHERLAND." "THE COUNTRY'S LAST LINE" "OF DEFENSE WOULD BE" "LITTLE BOYS AND OLD MEN." "(German march playing)" "(man speaking German)" "THE RECRUITMENT AGE WOULD SOON" "BE LOWERED TO 13." "MARCH 22, 1945." "ALLIED GROUND TROOPS WERE ONLY" "WEEKS FROM GERMANY'S CAPITAL." "HITLER MADE HIS FINAL APPEARANCE" "ON FILM." "Schwanenfluegel:" "THERADIOANNOUNCED" "THAT HITLER HAD COME" "OUT OF HIS SAFE," "BOMB-PROOF BUNKER" "TO TALK WITH THE BOYS" "WHO HAD 'VOLUNTEERED'" "TO DIE FOR THEIR FUHRER" "IN DEFENSE OF BERLIN." "WHAT A CRUEL LIE." "THESE BOYS HAD NO CHOICE." "BOYS WHO ARE FOUND HIDING" "ARE HANGED AS TRAITORS" "AS A WARNING TO THE OTHERS." "Narrator:300MILESWEST," "AMERICAN TROOPS WERE TAKING" "FRIEDRICH KELLNER'S HOMETOWN." "Kellner:" "FORTHEFIRSTTIME ," "WE BEHOLD AMERICANS." "THEIR SOLDIERS ARE" "OUTSTANDINGLY EQUIPPED..." "AND REMARKABLY WELL-FED." "AFTER A LONG OPPRESSION," "FINALLY, THE RELEASE." "FOR OUR AREA THEN," "THE WAR IS OVER." "Narrator:" "BUTNOTALL GERMANSWERE" "SO RESIGNED TO THEIR DEFEAT." "MANY SIMPLY COULDN'T IMAGINE A GERMANY" "AFTER THE THIRD REICH." "MASS SUICIDE OCCURRED ACROSS GERMANY" "ON A SCALE NEVER BEFORE SEEN" "IN WESTERN EUROPE." "(indistict voices, and footsteps)" "100 MILES FROM BERLIN," "AMERICAN TROOPS FILMED THIS SCENE." "man:" "THETOWNOFLEIPZIGFELL," "AND WE WERE THERE." "THERE WAS NO BURGERMEISTER LEFT." "HE AND HALF THE CITY HALL" "HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE" "AT A DRINKING PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE." "(pipe organ playing)" "Narrator:" "THELASTDAYSOFTHETHIRDREICH" "BEGAN ON APRIL 20th," "HITLER'S 56th BIRTHDAY." "MORE THAN A MILLION RED ARMY SOLDIERS" "WERE CIRCLING BERLIN." "FEWER THAN 100,000 GERMAN FORCES" "WOULD DEFEND THE CITY." "Friedrich:" "BEYONDQUESTION," "BERLIN IS IN DANGER." "WE'RE CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD," "AT THE MERCY OF THE ONCOMING CATASTROPHE," "AND WE'RE AFRAID." "Narrator:" "IFYOULIVEDINBERLIN," "IN APRIL, OF 1945," "YOU HAD NO RUNNING WATER," "NO ELECTRICITY, NO FOOD." "AND THE LAST BATTLE OF THE WAR" "WAS BEING FOUGHT OUTSIDE" "YOUR FRONT DOOR." "(gunfire, screams)" "Friedrich:" "ANDTHEN,SUDDENLY," "THE SHOOTING AND BOMBING STOPPED." "WHAT IS LEFT OF BERLIN IS NOW" "COMPLETELY UNDER THE CONTROL" "OF THE RED ARMY." "Narrator:" "AFTEREIGHTDAYSOFBATTLE," "THE SOVIET OCCUPATION BEGAN." "Schwanenfluegel:" "THATNIGHT," "A HORDE OF RED ARMY SOLDIERS" "STORMED INTO THE APARTMENT HOUSE" "NEXT TO OURS." "THEN, WE HEARD WOMEN" "SCREAMING FOR HELP." "(static)" "Friedrich:" "THEWARISOVER ." "AT THAT MOMENT, THE PEACE BEGINS FOR US." "Narrator:" "BUTFIRST," "ALL OF GERMANY'S PEOPLE," "PERPETRATORS, VICTIMS," "AND BYSTANDERS ALIKE," "WOULD BE CONFRONTED WITH THE" "CRIMES OF THE THIRD REICH." "(indistinct voices, gasoline engine)" "Narrator:" "ITWASAPRIL29,1945," "EIGHT DAYS BEFORE GERMANY'S SURRENDER." "SHORTLY AFTER 9:30 A.M.," "THE 45th THUNDERBIRD DIVISION" "OF THE 7th ARMY FILMED THEIR ARRIVAL" "AT THE TOWN OF DACHAU." "BY NOW, THESE MEN HAD SEEN 511 DAYS OF COMBAT." "BUT WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT TO SEE" "WAS BEYOND DESCRIPTION." "man:" "THEFIRSTTHINGWECAMETOWAS" "A RAILROAD TRACK LEADING" "OUT OF THE CAMP..." "WITH A LOT OF OPEN BOX CARS ON IT." "AS WE CROSSED THE TRACK," "THE MOST HORRIBLE SIGHT" "I HAVE EVER SEEN." "Levin:" "WEHADKNOWN." "THE WORLD HAD VAGUELY HEARD." "BUT UNTIL NOW, NONE OF US HAD" "LOOKED ON THIS." "IT WAS AS THOUGH WE HAD" "PENETRATED AT LAST" "TO THE CENTER OF THE BLACK HEART," "TO THE VERY CRAWLING INSIDE" "OF THE VICIOUS HEART." "(gate cranking open)" "Koberwitz:" "THEDAYISOVER ." "THIS APRIL 29, 1945." "I WILL CELEBRATE IT FOR THE REST" "OF MY LIFE AS MY SECOND BIRTHDAY..." "AS THE DAY THAT GIFTED ME LIFE ANEW." "Narrator:" "THEREWEREMORETHAN  20,000 CAMPS LIKE DACHAU," "THROUGHOUT THE THIRD REICH." "IN TOWNS LIKE ORHDURF," "FLOSSENBERG AND WEIMAR," "GERMAN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN" "HAD LIVED AND WORKED," "SOMETIMES RIGHT NEXT DOOR." "NOW THEY WERE BEING TOLD" "THEY HAD TO GO INSIDE." "HERE, IN DACHAU, WHERE THE" "MAJORITY HAD VOTED AGAINST HITLER" "IN 1933, THE TOWNSPEOPLE" "TOLD THE AMERICANS:" ""WIRSINDABERALLBELOGENWORDEN."" ""WE HAVE ALL BEEN LIED TO."" "man:" "THEY ARE LIARS." "AND GUILTY AS SIN." "THE PEOPLE ARE TO BLAME" "FOR THEIR COWARDICE." "Narrator:" "ACROSSGERMANY," "THE ALLIES FORCED" "LOCAL NAZI PARTY MEMBERS" "TO BURY THE DEAD." "(woman shouting in German)" "IF YOU WERE GERMAN," "YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT" "THE WORLD HELD YOU" "PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE" "FOR THE CRIMES OF THE THIRD REICH." "Monkenberg:" "THEYACCUSE" "ALL OF US, WITHOUT EXCEPTION," "OF BEING FULLY RESPONSIBLE." "BUT WE HATED THE REGIME" "FROM THE VERY BEGINNING." "NOW OUR LONGED-FOR DELIVERANCE" "MEANS ONLY THAT WE ARE DESPISED," "AND HATED." "IT SERVES US RIGHT." "NOBODY CAN ESCAPE" "THIS..." "COLLECTIVE GUILT." "Narrator:" "ATTHETIMEOFSURRENDER," "MORE THAN 11 MILLION GERMANS" "WERE PRISONERS OF WAR." "(indistinct voices)" "AT LEAST A MILLION WOULD DIE IN CAPTIVITY" "OF HUNGER..." "EXPOSURE..." "AND NEGLECT." "AS THE BORDERS OF EUROPE WERE REDRAWN," "12 TO 14 MILLION ETHNIC GERMANS" "WERE EXPELLED FROM THEIR HOMES." "IT WAS THE LARGEST MOVEMENT" "OF ANY SINGLE ETHNIC POPULATION" "IN MODERN HISTORY." "WHAT AWAITED THEM IN GERMANY:" "NOWHERE TO LIVE..." "AND LITTLE TO EAT." "MILLIONS DIED." "THOSE WHO SURVIVED WOULD LIVE" "ON NEAR-STARVATION RATIONS" "FOR THREE MORE YEARS." "DESPITE ALL THIS," "IF YOU WERE GERMAN," "THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING LEFT TO DO..." "REBUILD." "Monkenberg:" "ALLIKNOWISTHAT" "WE GERMANS ARE FINISHED." "I CAN'T CHANGE THAT." "I JUST HAVE TO SWALLOW IT." "THERE WILL BE HARD WORK" "AND SHORT RATIONS." "BUT THE SUN IS STILL IN THE SKY." "ONE THING'S FOR SURE:" "MY LIFE HAS CERTAINLY BEEN FULL." "ALL TOO FULL."