# WORLD WAR II RESTRICTED FILM GERMAN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE "BEHIND NAZI GUNS" 28824

William L. Shirer narrates this documentary produced by the US Navy industrial-incentive division, which was made to show American war workers a behind-the-scenes report on their special enemy: the German war worker. Excellent captured German home-front footage is featured. While World War II raged across the globe, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Office Of War Information, Bureau Of Motion Pictures, produced numerous short subjects such as these to patriotically inspire and motivate America to buy War Bonds, out-produce enemy workers and generally be prepared to sacrifice and pay the price that freedom would require. One of these films is BEHIND NAZI GUNS, a U.S. Navy industrial incentive film narrated by the great journalist and writer William L. Shirer. The film was primarily shown to the workers of America's war plants. With captured enemy footage, the might and military achievements of German industry and the fanatic devotion of Nazi workers are vividly depicted. The film vividly shows the "duel" between German and American war workers. The German war worker is shown hypnotized, listening to propaganda broadcasts on the radio. High tech German laboratories are shown, as well as industrial zones, factories, and munitions plants. The film includes wonderful and rare footage of Berlin at the 3:39 mark, prior to the heavy bombings and battles that would nearly flatten the city. The pre-war poverty is shown at the 4:00 mark, but the good times of the Weimar Republic…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/28824behindnazigunsvwr)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader states a Creative Commons licence, but that it is the rights holder's is not shown: its record does not date the work from 2002, when the licences were first published, or the work is another's (an older work under a later date, or a video set to another's song), and nothing else the site holds shows where it is free. Unclear is not offered.