Synopsis
Rare color footage from the Third Reich's Panorama monthly newsreel: morning training at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, haymaking in the mountains, a market day in Albania, Hitler Youth naval training, an excerpt from the film Große Freiheit Nr. 7, a soldiers' sports day, troops at a Carpathian pass, low-level air attacks, a convoy in the Arctic Ocean, and Stukas on the Eastern Front.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Language
- German
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- German Newsreel
- Deutsche Wochenschau
- Third Reich
- Drittes Reich
- Germany
- Deutschland
- Reitschule
- Wien
- Heumahd
- Markttag
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria · Starsong07 · 2013-03-10
The first few minutes of this film may well be extraordinarily rare. The Spanish Riding School performs, and their outdoor location (where normally they performed in an opulent indoor riding hall in the heart of Vienna) suggests that this footage was taken of a performance given for local Nazi officers after the evacuation of the school to St. Martin, Austria due to heavy bombing, but before the American forces invaded that far into the continent. This is indeed VERY rare footage, if that is the case, of a desperate time when the entire Lipizzan breed of horse was nearly wiped out due to the…