Military video's and DVD's of the German Army during World War II. Great value range of historical military videos featuring Erwin Rommel, paratroopers, the Gestapo and Waffen SS and Hitler's secret weapons. This range of videos by leading video publishers is available from the Military Art Company.

For postage please add £3.00 for UK. For overseas orders add £8 plus £2 per video. All videos compatible with UK video systems.

B/W. Running time 55mins approx. Price £6.50.  Order code PEG 1155

DVD available.  Order Code DVD1075.  Price £13.99

"A tireless fighter in the cause of the Feührer and the Reich." So said General von Runstedt of Erwin Rommel, Germany's most gifted general and one of the most distinguished and respected soldiers of the Twentieth Century. For his inspired leadership of the Afrika Korps, he would forever be known by friend and foe alike as the Desert Fox.

Rommel showed early signs of his potential when, in 1915, he earned the coveted Iron Cross 1st Class for an audacious battlefield action. Early 1940 found him waist deep in the River Meuse, heading the 7th Panzers 'Ghost Division' in Belgium: Rommel would never ask his troops to do what he himself would not. Using revolutionary tactics, he rewrote the rules of tank warfare and many times overcame superior odds.

But it was at the head of Panzer Group Afrika - the famed Afrika Korps - that Rommel shaped history, single-handedly reversing the course of the North African war. In a theatre where the elements also constituted a very real enemy, Rommel remained one step ahead of both adversaries until El Alamein.

After failing to persuade Hitler to abandon the doomed Fortress Europe strategy, Rommel took poison when he was implicated in a murder plot to save his leader the embarrassment of a public trial - a noble end to a legendary career. The story of that career is told here using rare archive footage, much of which has been unavailable in the West since World War II.

Colour / Black & White. Running time 55 mins approx. Price £6.50

Order code PEG1174

The story of the development of Hitler's secret armoury.

As the Second World War progressed, the race for scientific intelligence, secrecy and detection brought a new dimension to warfare. The pilotless flying bomb, or V1 emerged as the first of Hitler's new weapons, and a brief but terrifying period rained death and destruction on the South of England until the RAF and anti-aircraft gunners learnt to counter the terrible doodlebug.

With the Allies closing in from the West, and the Eastern front crumbling, Hitler realised Germany was losing the war and his response was to give top priority to the VII. Pioneered by Werner Von Braun, it was one of the greatest advances in the technology of warfare. Capable of being launched from anywhere, Hitler pinned his hopes on this early rocket, but the VII came too late, draining Germany's resources and ultimately failing to alter the course of Hitler's war.

Against a background of the famous campaigns which led to his eventual defeat, this video shows spectacular archive footage of Hitler's secret armoury as it was being developed, tested and finally used in anger.

B/W & Colour. Running time 55 mins. approx. Price £6.50

order code PEG1163

Hitler's War Part 2

Video run time 55 minutes. Order code PEG1164.   Price £6.50

By June 3rd 1940, Hitler's dream of mastery in Europe had come true as he triumphantly took Paris after only ten months of war, and then launched his ultimate plan for an Eastern Front. Opposed by the twin forces of the invincible Russian winter and the indomitable Russian soldier, the German army froze and starved outside Moscow.

Encouraged by Japan's entry into the war, Hitler's hopes lay in a speedy spring offensive, but weakened elsewhere by the disastrous Battle of the Atlantic, defeats in North Africa, the British bombing offensive, and certain war with the U.S., his 6th Army was crushed and forced to retreat from the Red Army battalions. His resolve unshaken, Hitler bows to the need to re-arm, and in 1943 German teeth are clenched as the struggle begins to reestablish supremacy by any means. This video narrates Hitler's early war, using much newly discovered footage including colour material shot by Eva Braun at the Berghof.

Hitler's War Part 2 1943 - 45

It is 1943 and Germany's triumph is turning into disaster.  With 4 armies lost at Stalingrad, the Afrika Korps defeated and the submarines neutralised by radar, Germany's morale waivers.  By 1944 much ground is lost, and the fight is against time as Hitler faces losing the Ukraine, crippling air-raids on Berlin, and an acute shortage of troops.  Not even the last desperate deployment of the terrifying flying bombs can turn the tide.  With the 1944 Allied invasion, the defeat of Rommel's troops, the relentless Soviet military machine, and the French winter counter-offensive leading to the Battle of the Bulge, the crisis deepened.  Hitler was ill, threatened with assassination by his own generals, and the fuel and ammunition were running out in the face of the advancing allied forces closing in on a stricken Berlin, making it only a matter of time before Hitler's war would be over.  This video depicts Hitler's crisis years using rare archive footage much of which has been unavailable in the West since World War II.

Hitler's War Parts One and two on one special DVD

By June 23rd 1940 Hitler's dream of mastery in Europe had come true, as he triumphantly took Paris after only 10 months at war and then launched his ultimate plan for an Eastern Front.  With over 100 minutes of footage, this DVD depicts Hitler's war using rare colour archive footage, including material shot by Eva Braun at the Berghof, much of which has been unavailable in the West since World War Two.

NOW AVAILABLE ON ONE DVD. PRICE £12.99  ORDER CODE DVD1030

Colour & B/W. Running time approx 60 minutes.  Order code PEG1101.  Price £6.50

DVD available.  Order Code DVD1076.  Price £13.99

A documented account using archive footage of Germany's elite Parachute Troops. Starting with the formation of the first Parachute Corps and including Germany's leaders, Generals and Regiments, whose unique weapon, whilst disputed by the rest of the world, gave them unequalled advantage. 

Including:

• Parachute development begins in Russia
• Orders issued for formation of a German Parachute Corps
• Major Kurt Student named as new commander of 7th Fliegerdivision
• Training of the Parachute Corps
• Equipment
• RZ1
• Junkers JU52
• Germany marches on Poland
• Operation 'Weseruebung'
• DFS230
• Holland
• France
• Yugoslavia
• Greece
• The East 1941-1943
• North Africa
• Italy
• Normandy

Post and packing for UK £3 per video, maximum charge £6.  For overseas orders add £8 plus £2 per video.

A secure order form is available on this link:    secure ordering site

Please take note of print title, serial number and price.

The Panzer - The Story of Adolf Hitler's Infamous Panzer Divisions

Battle tanks decided many battles during the Second World War.  Some 25,000 were produced in Germany and some 250,000 by the Allies during the conflict.  Yet despite overwhelming odds, the German Panzer Divisions became legendary.  Just as a cavalryman becomes attached to his horse, the Panzer crews still vividly remember their mechanical mounts, the sounds they produced, the smell of fuel and oil, the effects they had on the enemy and also the fact that the Panzer could become a steel coffin in one blazing moment.

Video run time 55 minutes. Order code PEG1226. 

  NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. PRICE £12.99  ORDER CODE DVD1028

Siegfried Line - Germany's Massive Defensive Border

Constructed by tens of thousands of workers, this was Nazi Germany's massive line of defence with underground tunnels, deadly hidden minefields, tank-traps and innumerable troop garrisons that displayed immense organisation and spread the length of the German defensive borders.

Video run time 53 minutes. Order code PEG1258.    

NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. PRICE £12.99  ORDER CODE DVD1026

Stormtroopers - Hitler's Infamous Shock Troops of World War II

One of the most potent weapons used by the German army during the first two years of the war was the use of the infamous 'Stormtrooper'.  Soldiers who were sent in advance of the main thrust of the attack - taking their targets by complete surprise - in a quick, but immensely effective, short outburst of heavy force.  These raids were carried out by top units of trained marines, paratroopers and infantry and proved to be highly successful time after time.  Includes archive footage showing various attacks plus interviews with stormtroopers.

Video run time 57 minutes. Order code PEG1259.   

  NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. PRICE £12.99  ORDER CODE DVD1027

Post and packing for UK £3 per video, maximum charge £6.  For overseas orders add £8 plus £2 per video.

Paratroopers

With the use of archive footage, follow this documented account of Germanys elite parachute troops.  Restricted after World War One, Germany looked on as Russia and America experimented with an airborne army.  Convinced of its strategic and tactical potential, German leaders such as Goering and Student championed the creation of an elite parachute corp.  When Hitler declared war on the civilised world, the new paratrooper divisions were to prove instrumental as the tidal wave of the Third Reich poured across Europe, from the opening days hostilities in Poland, through France, Italy, Greece and North Africa, Hitlers elite parachute troops were to prove their worth.

DVD.  Order Code DVD1076.  60 minutes.  Price £13.99.

Waffen-SS Hitler's Elite Fighting Force

The SS had its beginnings in the turbulent street politics of the Weimar Republic.  It became Heinrich Himmler's personal power-base and under him the SS grew into a vast private army and state within the state.  It was a chaotic, corrupt and often grossly inefficient organisation.  But one part of it - the 'Waffen' or 'Armed' SS, formed initially as a fighting force achieved worldwide fame and notoriety.  The Waffen SS won a unique reputation for daring elan and unfailing professionalism in combat.  Yet if their courage was unquestioned, so too was the fear and loathing which they elicited-even, eventually, amongst their own people, and in the regular soldiers alongside whom they fought.  The SS played a conspicuous role in most of the important German triumphs, one far disproportionate to their numbers.  In the long period of decline and retreat, as the Germans were steadily pushed back from east and west, despite repeatedly sustaining horrendous casualties, their discipline remained unbroken, their fighting ardour unimpaired, almost to the very end.  After the war, the Waffen SS were burdened with the near exclusive blame for the most hideous crimes of the Nazi regime.  It was only unfair insofar as many others were involved as well; and for all their matchless undoubted bravery, the Waffen SS bears a reputation which will remain forever stained with infamy.  

Video run time 60 minutes. Order code PEG1154.     

  NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. PRICE £12.99  ORDER CODE DVD1045

Gestapo - Hitler's Secret Police

The very name of Hitler's secret police has become synonymous with the rule of terror that, under Heinrich Himmler, first maintained and then extended the Fuhrer's iron grip on Germany and its people.  Waging relentless war on political dissidents, disaffected citizens and religious minorities alike, the Gestapo's tactics of torture, interrogation and summary execution bolstered Hitler's crumbling regime to the last and established a reputation for brutality and oppression that would endure long after the last Gestapo commandant met his fate at the gallows.

Video run time 52 minutes. Order code PEG1177 .

NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. PRICE £12.99  ORDER CODE DPVD1029