British mines in the German Rhine (1942)

Documentary №67097, 4 parts, black-white
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Director:Johannes Fritce (Johannes Fritze)
Camera operators:Hans K. Gotshaljk (Hans K. Gottschalk), Paulj Hinrihs (Paul Hinrichs)

Reel №1

Germany, 1939.

German warships on the Rhine.

Fascist ships float by ships damaged by mines: consequences of the British military operation Operation Royal Marine on the Rhine.

From the wreckage of water sticking Nazi ships.

Map of Alsace and Lorraine, crossed the Rhine river.

On the map is marked village Kattenhofen (Kattenhofen).

Three German soldiers pass through the village, go to the store with the British mine, discovered in the river.

Soldiers carry mines and wooden boxes with equipment in the operating room.

Animated diagram of a plant mines in the river.

Demonstration of decontamination water mines by means of a special device.

Displaying capsule device underwater mines.

Key words

Germany 1939 1942, world war 2, naval, mines, demining, military exercises

Reel №2

Displaying the device underwater mines for the model.

For the filling min additionally used lead balls.

The soldiers dismantled a real underwater mine.

To it are attached stabilizing axis, allowing to move in a mine water.

Animated diagram of the movement underwater mines.

Driving map of Alsace and Lorraine, indicating the area of ​​the Rhine at Strasbourg.

Soldiers fixed on mine weighting special discs that do not allow it to emerge.

The experience of immersion in the water mines in a field laboratory.

Animated diagram of the movement of another type of mine (no axis) on the river bottom.

Key words

Germany 1939 1942, world war 2, naval, mines, demining, military exercises

Reel №3

Soldiers demonstrate transportation underwater mines.

For example, one minute of soldiers shows how to activate an explosive device.

Installing an underwater mines from the barge by two soldiers.

Determination of installation location and clearance of the German team, depending on the route of passage of ships.

Two soldiers on the shore watching the movements of mines along the river.

Implementation of communication with the headquarters via the antenna unit, the transmission of information to the headquarters of the soldiers.

The work of officers at headquarters.

Anxiety in the barracks.

The soldiers ran out of the bunker, built, marching to the river.

Soldiers descend on a log water, directing the mines on a particular channel.

Animated arrangement governing the logs on the river.

On the bank established an observation post, connected with binoculars watching over.

Key words

Germany 1939 1942, world war 2, naval, mines, demining, military exercises

Reel №4

A squad of soldiers marching on the banks of the river, on which lay a wooden device to adjust the flow.

The soldiers came down to pave the transfer on the pontoon of assistive devices for the neutralization of underwater mines.

The soldiers dropped into the water anchor.

Scheme of arrangement attached to the trawl anchor network for mine clearance.

Observers communicate with the commander on the phone.

At first the river swim ming.

Soldier shoots it from a vending machine.

The second mine explodes on contact with the water located in the trawl.

Showing different ways of neutralizing underwater mines (manually trawl through special barriers or if the mine is stuck in the coastal mud).

The traffic on the Rhine.

Reruns damaged Nazi ships in the river.

Key words

Germany 1939 1942, world war 2, naval, mines, demining, military exercises

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