I. Track cycling race. Cyclists race round track in indoor stadium (Berlin ?), watched by spectators who include servicemen on leave from the front.

II. Acrobat performs. Acrobat Uno, world famous for his index finger, uses it to balance upside down and then in another act involving rotating rings.

III. Evacuated German artists work peacefully in Austria. Artists already evacuated from bombed cities of Reich live and work together in village in Steiermark (Styria). Professor Flim (?) stands outside monastery building on hill, then is seen entering dining room and sitting down with other artists already gathered round table, including woman potter von Pasini (?) and book illustrator Professor Hans Meid, later seen at work doing rapid pen and ink sketches of figures in 17th century interiors.

IV. Goebbels tours bombed areas of Berlin. Reichsminister is accompanied by officials, including City commandant, as he walks in area said to have been bombed in latest terror attack on capital (little damage visible) and sees Pioneers doing repair work. Always surrounded by people, Goebbels gets into Kbelwagen and is next seen listening to report from female air raid warden. Minister then enters crowded relief centre, filmed by cameraman panning with Arriflex, and sees cigarettes being distributed to contented survivors of raid, mainly appreciative women, who are all able to approach Goebbels personally to describe their needs and worries. Goebbels reportedly told his audience that if life could continue in such an orderly fashion after such heavy raids, then there was no doubt that the houses of the capital could be rebuilt comparatively quickly, providing that the essential precondition of victory was met. For neither the British nor the Bolsheviks would rebuild the city; only the Berliners themselves could rebuild it. Goebbels departs after shaking hands with a few more women.

V. Lufthansa celebrates twenty-fifth anniversary. Birth of German civil aviation in difficult conditions of 1919 is recalled by film of biplane with civil markings (98-RL) on airfield. Later biplane with enclosed cockpit (D-290) and marked Deutsche Luft-Reederei stands inside hangar and recalls Deutsche Luft Hansa's origins. Planned development and pioneering flights since then have made company safest airline in world, period illustrated by following planes: three Junkers Ju 52/1m passenger planes (D-1367, D-1149) stand outside hangar; passengers climb over wing of corrugated (Junkers) monoplane; four-engine monoplane (D-1720) taxies in hangar; small passenger plane marked Luft Hansa stands in hangar; D-1720 flies low over Junkers Ju 90 commercial transport, which taxies on airfield; Dornier Do 26 berthed; map of route Berlin to Buenos Aires demonstrates how German aviation won peacetime competition for transoceanic flying, recalled by scene of West African children running towards Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52/3m named Aeolus (Sierra Leone?) and watching catapult launch from old converted liner Westfalen off Bathurst (?) of Dornier Do 15, which flies over sea until circling Rio de Janeiro; Heinkel (?) plane (D-1198) named Europa, flown by Freiherr von Hnefeld and Major Fitzmaurice (neither seen) on first east-west crossing of Atlantic; catapult on converted liner Schwabenland launches Dornier (D-ABYM) on North Atlantic flight; Focke-Wulf 200 Condor in flight; pilot Henkel and Hauptmann von Buro (?) pose beside Condor for battery of newsreel cameramen at Floyd Bennet Field in New York before completing return leg of record flight to Berlin Tempelhof (August 1938). Lufthansa continues to fly in wartime, indicated by passenger checking in for Stockholm flight and route signs Berlin-Danzig-Knigsberg and Berlin-Budapest-Bucharest. Condor taxies and flight captain and pioneer Kunstler (?) poses beside plane. Impact of Lufthansa abroad is suggested by views of Junkers Ju 52/3m of Danish and Swedish Airways parked on German airfield.

VI. Jagdgeschwader 54 aces visit armaments factory. Hauptmann Nowotny, Germany's most successful fighter pilot, arrives outside factory with some Luftwaffe comrades, then tours the (aircraft ?) plant talking to workers at their machines. Ground crew exchange experiences with other workers. Holder of Knights Cross Major Seiler and Oberst Trautloft, formerly Kommodore of Nowotny's Geschwader, also tour factory and see workers doing their jobs, including very young boy at work. Factory workers and servicemen from the front stand together outside at end of visit.

VII. German soldiers learn to ski in Norway. Sign on hut in snow reads Ski Heil. Soldiers don skis and under instruction from experienced skiers from German mountains learn 180 degree standing turn and snow plough, before making first inexpert attempts at descent. More advanced comrades make small ski jumps.

VIII. Hitler receives commanders at Wolfsschanze. Military commanders of three services walk through the woods in grounds of Fhrer's headquarters. Those arriving include Army Group Generals, Admiral and other commanders. Indoors Generalfeldmarschall von Manstein stands in conversation with Generalfeldmarschall von Kchler, with other officers in background. Hitler then appears, flanked by Generalfeldmarschall Keitel and Grossadmiral Doenitz, and tailed by Bormann, as he walks past guard of honour which presents arms. (End of Reel 1)

IX. (Reel 2) Funeral of Generalmajor Schulz. Exemplary career of tank commander (Panzer Regiment 25) and holder of Germany's highest gallantry award, killed one day after return to front (near Shepetovka) from leave is honoured by funeral with full military honours. Coffin draped in swastika is carried on Pzkpfw III, then borne to graveside by Panzer soldiers. Comrades stand grieving and Schulz's medals are held on ceremonial cushion. Generalfeldmarschall von Manstein lays wreath beside another marked Panzer Regiment Rothenburg before triple rifle volley is fired.

X. Soldiers return happily from leave to Eastern Front. Animated map from Nevel to Nikopol. Leave passenger train passes en route back to front. At halt soldiers, including one wearing Organisation Todt armband, queue for rations at stall manned by German Red Cross nurses, who wave farewell as train pulls away. Soldiers shave and wash at another halt; camera tracks from train crossing snowscape. At destination soldiers detrain and report to office bearing Gross Deutschland sign (GD and helmet) before continuing journey from railhead. Back in frontline soldier loads clip of five bullets into his rifle. Other soldiers attach themselves to supply column and trudge across snow, one carrying a lamb. Soup is ladled into mess tins in forest, where holder of Knights Cross Oberfeldwebel Kaminsky (Infanterie Regiment 446) sits eating. Mood of holiday contentment is prolonged by soldier showing comrade picture of his child and playful throwing of snow at soldiers basking in sun.

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Notes

Technical: above summary is based on correct order of items and assumes following changes to present order of Reel 1: place from 582 ft to end of reel at 268 ft, ie after item III

Remarks: cataloguing incomplete?