This reel of film contains a combination of commercial and amateur footage taken during World War II.  The reel begins with a German propaganda film, Degeto Weltspiegel Nr 10.  Attached to this is footage shot by Peter Thornton of Farsley, Leeds following the bombing of Duisburg, Germany in 1945.   Title - Degeto Weltspiegel The film shows the German’s position in Norway secured by new reinforcement.  There is a German newspaper headline and a map showing the routes of attack to Norway....

This reel of film contains a combination of commercial and amateur footage taken during World War II.  The reel begins with a German propaganda film, Degeto Weltspiegel Nr 10.  Attached to this is footage shot by Peter Thornton of Farsley, Leeds following the bombing of Duisburg, Germany in 1945.   Title - Degeto Weltspiegel The film shows the German’s position in Norway secured by new reinforcement.  There is a German newspaper headline and a map showing the routes of attack to Norway. German soldiers are shown marching, with battle scenes and marching POWs.  There is anti-aircraft fire and we are shown a shot down plane.  From up in the air there is film of German planes dropping bombs on Allied ships.  (Film originally released 31st April, 1940.)  The next section of the film contains scenes of bomb damage in Duisburg.  Film is taken from a car as it makes its way through the city streets.  Entire buildings have been turned to rubble.  Many of the locals can be seen cycling through the city centre, and a church spire has been severely damaged.  There is a sign for the Rhine River Victory Bridge which spans the Rhine River.  It was built to replace the Dulsburg-Hochfeld Railway Bridge that was blown up by German troops as they retreated from the western bank of the Rhine River March 4, 1945.  The old bridge is shown broken in two.  There is then film of much of the damage caused by the bombing of Duisburg in the war.  A sign reads, “Fried. Krupp A.G. Friedrich Alfred Hütte” (steel works factory in Rheinhausen Duisburg.) (Col.)  The film ends with a coloured section showing the results of bombing on some rural landscape. Runtime 1.54 mins Degeto Weltspiegel can be viewed at https://archive.org/details/DegetoWeltspiegelNr10