Title:KRUPP ARMAMENT AND POLITICS 1933-1940 NO 3 [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 32
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Foreign military delegations inspect Krupp artillery.
Description: I. Hungarian Army Officers escorted by Erich Müller and Alfried Krupp inspect Krupp artillery pieces, including a row of 21cm Kanone 38's at one of the Krupp firing ranges. A French 340mm railway gun is visible behind the group of officers, who may include a Croatian Officer [ca 1940].
II. Civilians wearing winged collars watch a heavy calibre railway gun firing [ca 1935].
III. A delegation of Army Officers, probably from a Latin American state, closely inspect a 15cm Kanone 39. Soldiers set up the gun and fire it at different elevations, after which the officers make notes [ca 1940].
IV. Firing of another 15cm Kanone 39 before a delegation, probably from a Latin American State. The gun is transported away by a Schwerer Zugkraftwagen 12 ton Sd Kfz 8 [ca 1940].