West Wall (1939)

Documentary №65930, 4 parts, black-white
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Director:Fric Hippler/Fritz Hippler/
Camera operators:Zepp Allgejer,Maks Endrejat,Valjter Fuks,Voljfgang Dossman,Fridrih Karl Geere,Valjter Grig,Hajnc Yavorski,Hajnc Klut,Viljgeljm Mala,Gerbert Vilke

Reel №1

Germany.

The documentary, dedicated to the construction of fortifications "West Wall", undertaken in May 1938.

The slogan of the need to protect Reich from a hostile environment.

Map of Germany, its western borders.

Types cities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, Saarbrücken.

River Main, the movement of ships.

View of the city of Koblenz, equestrian monument on the pier.

View of Cologne from the river.

Driving shaft on the map Shingen through Karlsruhe, Cologne to Emmerich

Germany.

Dr.

Todt, head of the construction of the "West Wall" with General Jacob over the map.

Snap on the terrain, surveyors work.

Design Bureau, drawings shaft.

Mulskhema components construction and responsible persons, including Dr.

Todt, Dr.

Ley, Field Marshal Goering

Germany.

Delivery of building materials.

Logging, log roll into the river rafting.

Explosions in the mountains, workers extract gravel, load it into trucks, is a train running excavator.

Manufacturing processes in factories.

The melting shop, pipe rolling, wire.

Go convoys carrying cargoes for the construction.

Overloading materials in trucks and shipping them to the construction site.

Barrels of fuel on the ground.

Trucks with inscriptions of various companies.

Top view of the construction site.

Warehouses materials pile of boards and barbed wire, cables

Key words

Germany, city, river, attractions, transportation, water, monuments, propaganda
Germany, Gos.deyateli, personalities, construction, household appliances, construction, military leaders
Germany, construction, industry, forestry, explosion, mountains, workers, industry, transport, river

Reel №2

Germany.

Working for 8 people are bent rails, put them in a pile.

Newspaper on February 14, 1939 article about the construction of Goering "Western Front".

Labour force gathered from all over Germany.

Seeing the workers at the station.

job placement in homes and barracks.

Labor camp, the workers clean shoes, wash, shave, take a shower.

Cook prepares lunch.

Distribution of food through the window.

Recreation workers.

They read, play chess, watch circus performances, a boxing match.

Humorously show with "horse", which depict two people

Germany.

In the morning working on the buses are sent to the construction site.

RAD Soldiers marching with shovels.

Workflows on a construction site with the help of machines and mehanizmov.prokladka tunnel boring rock miner.

Carpenters produce work, assembly of wooden parts.

Working with wheelbarrows carry gravel, sand.

Steep cement mixers, concrete is poured into vats.

Defensive installations camouflage planting bushes.

Lunch, on the construction site brought Bidnyi milk, pots of soup.

Workers eat

Key words

Germany, construction, workers, media, leisure, entertainment, railway
Germany, construction, work, food, household appliances, miners

Reel №3

Germany.

The arrival of the Fuehrer for the construction.

Hitler is in a car with his hand raised in a Nazi salute.

He meets Todt.

Hitler, Himmler and their attendants on gun carriages, next to the workers.

Hitler bypasses construction, inspecting fortifications.

They come in DZOT.Zaryadka shells guns

Germany.

The newspaper with the headline of readiness "West Wall".

View of the dragon teeth line, the farmer next to plow the earth, is cleaning hay.

Farmer with a herd passes through the stockade.

on the line from the aircraft type.

Types of fortifications and defensive structures attacks against infantry and tanks.

Pillboxes and bunkers, tank traps, stockade, barbed wire near the river.

The tower in the forest.

Masking fortifications

Germany.

The arrival of the soldiers serving strengthening.

Detachment comes in an armored bunker, marched down the tunnel, go to the trolleys.

The rise in the cage.

Rooms for relaxation.

Soldiers sitting around a table, smoking

Key words

Germany, construction, strengthening, Gos.deyateli, personalities, Hitler, Himmler, the workers of weapons
Germany, strengthening, construction, weapons, the press, farmers, domestic animals
Germany, the soldiers, the strengthening of the troops, recreation

Reel №4

Germany.

underground bunker equipment.

The kitchen, the cook puts products brews.

Shower for men, toilet, washbasin.

Telephone exchange, wireless operators with headphones.

Power, turn on equipment, ventilation.

Ammunition depots.

Weapons "West Wall" -artilleriya all calibres, anti-aircraft guns.

The view from the shelter loopholes.

The gunners on the ground, in the calculation tool.

Prozhektoristy at the instruments.

Inflating balloons air barrage launched into the air.

Acoustic devices, alarm system.

The airfield with planes, pilots sit in the car, take off in threes.

Soldiers in the ranks

Key words

Germany, construction, strengthening, soldiers, workers, military equipment, armaments, aeronautics, air force, tanks, artillery, communications, power, food

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