XD9893 ” Greatest Headlines of the Century: Hitler Dead ” & “Mussolini Slain” Circa 1961 Compilation Reel of Two Headline Episodes

“Greatest Headlines of the Century”, “Hitler Dead”, “Mussolini Slain”,

“[GHOC Episode P-10] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: “Hitler Dead” with photo of German chancellor Adolf Hitler / [late 1930s] WS Berchtesgaden area of Bavarian Alps with Berghof, Hitler’s residence, at center / VS Hitler reading on outdoor balcony, patting German Shepherd dog, smiling as he talks to a little boy at the Berghof / Joseph Goebbels smiles as he walks up steps, shakes hands enthusiastically with man, kisses woman’s hand / CU Joachim von Ribbentrop chews, laughs / men on balcony talk with Heinrich Himmler (at right)/ VS Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun, dressed in Tyrolean costume / Hitler dances a jig; man (maybe Hermann Goering) watches / CU Hitler / CU sign on building about Topf & Sons, German engineering company that made incineration furnaces for Nazi concentration camps / VS women in bunks in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp // [October 1923, Bayreuth, Bavaria] VS crowds run in streets, fleeing; truck with soldiers drives through city / VS police and rioters scuffle / elaborate, fluttering banner with swastikas and “NSDAP” / soldiers march in street through crowds // [early 1930s] VS Hitler speaks emphatically to crowds // [Feb 1929, Berlin] Goebbels speaks emphatically at propaganda march of SA stormtroopers / police/soldiers crowd control // [early 1930s] Hitler walks with group of military officers / CU Hitler nods slightly / Hitler and military officials on ship deck / [1939, Poland] military vehicles move during German invasion of Poland / rear view soldiers advance across field, some on their bellies and some squatting / soldiers fire artillery // [Apr 1945, Berlin] VS Soviet artillery guns fire in street during Battle of Berlin / tanks and infantry; destroyed buildings nearby / tank fires / VS Soviet soldiers in Berlin streets / VS buildings burn / VS German soldier POWs file past in line, with hands on heads / CU Hitler / black / end credits / Note: exact date of compilation not known”

“[GHOC Episode Q-02] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: “Mussolini Slain” / [4/30/1942, Berchtesgaden, Germany] Car approaches house in Alps / swastika ornament on Mercedes limo / Benito Mussolini walks with Adolf Hitler after arrival at the Berghof / CU Mussolini smiles / Hitler and Mussolini walk past soldiers / VS Hitler, Mussolini, German Gen. Alfred Jodl look at map // [9/1943, Salerno, Italy] VS US vehicles move off landing barges / authorities use hose on crowd at 1945 Rome protest / CU Mussolini in helmet / VS Italian soldiers goosestep on Rome street, 1938 / CU Mussolini in helmet // [9/1943] celebration in Rome as Mussolini regime ends; VS truck, bus packed with people / VS man smashes stone emblem on building with hammer; it falls to street and breaks / poster on wall of King Victor Emmanuel III above placard w/ name of new Italian Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio / VS throngs in streets; overloaded bus in bg, happy crowd // [11/1943, Italy] VS Italian and German officers shake hands / Mussolini, in dark clothing and a fedora, walks / cable car across ravine / VS Mussolini boards plane; it takes off / [12/1943, Germany] Hitler in uniform and Mussolini in mufti shake hands as Mussolini deplanes after escaping Italy; Vittorio Mussolini embraces his father / VS Mussolini and Hitler // [4/1945, Rome] German officer salutes plane on German airfield / crowds on Rome street / Mussolini’s mistress Claretta Petacci / CU Mussolini at plane door / VS Walter Audisio, former underground leader / [4/29/1945, Milan] VS angry Milanese with corpses of Mussolini, Petacci, others in Piazzale Loreto; corpses on ground; man stepping on/around them; man w/ rifle stands w/ corpses / Mussolini’s and Petacci’s corpses hang upside down from girder of a gas station; corpse of loyalist Achille Starace is hoisted up / WS man issues Fascist salute / the three hanging corpses / end credits / Note: exact date of compilation not known”

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