Top skiers compete for the Lauberhorn trophy, a top European meet. Participants from France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland compete in the skiing competition. A slalom race and a downhill event ends with the Austrians taking the trophy.
Ruins of Hitler's Berghof residence in Berchtesgaden after bombing by Allied forces near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Goering's stolen collection of paintings and art pieces taken from all over Europe. The stolen collection was hidden in air raid shelters and loaded on battle trains. View of U.S. soldiers retrieving the stolen works of art. Book 'Mein Kampf' written by Adolf Hitler in Landsberg prison. Portrait of Adolf Hitler with a Nazi symbol. German military officials including General Herman Gred Von Runstedt, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, and Hermann Goering surrender to the American Army. Views of Hermann Göring after having been flown from Austria to U.S. Army headquarters in Augsburg, Germany on May 9, 1945, where he is seen handing over his handgun. Göring talking to U.S. 7th Army officials.
The United States Presidential elections campaign in the United States. Democratic candidate Walter Mondale gives a speech during the campaign at the 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco, California, in July 1984. Mondale supporters holding banners. Picture of young boy Walter Mondale with his family. View of men in a bread line during the Great Depression. President Franklin D Roosevelt seated in a car talking to farmers or possibly CCC workers. Still photos of Walter Mondale elected captain of the football team in his school days. Still images of Mondale with Hubert Humphrey. Mondale with his wife and three children. He spends time with his family playing and dining outdoors. He chops wood and cooks food on a barbecue grill beside a lake. Footage of Mondale speaking while Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth. Mondale speaking with a group of children. A girl typing on a computer keyboard. View of an early computer screen or CRT screen as data runs along the screen. Closeups of wide eyed boy and girl children looking up and watching something. Pollution at a Superfund site. A fence and sign warning of a contaminated area. Broken barrels and chemical toxic waste sludge in a superfund area. Mondale and Jimmy Carter together on stage at the Democratic Convention of 1976, holding up their hands as as he became Carter's running mate for Vice President. Supporters at the convention cheering in 1976. Mondale meeting with world officials including leaders of China while signing an agreement. Mondale meeting with other world leaders in Vienna, Austria to discuss human rights issues with the government of South Africa. Mondale at Camp Davis assisting President Carter in negotiating the peace deal between Israel and Egypt. He is shown with Jimmy Carter, and with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. Walter Mondale traveling all over the United States during run up to 1984 election. Mondale and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro on stage as his supporters cheer the two running for President and Vice President in 1984. Monale telling a crowd, "I want to be President of the United States."
Car arrives at top of mountain road bearing Eva Braun's sister, Gretl, the bride, her husband, Nazi Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein (Himmler's liaison officer on Hitler's personal staff), and other German officers. Others arrive and all enter the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagles Nest) to attend a wedding reception. This is following a civil wedding ceremony held in Salzburg Austria. They walk into the entrance tunnel. Bride and groom enter room. Bride removes some lipstick. Bride sips champagne,greets well wishers and receives flowers. Eva Braun greets and kisses her sister, the bride. Many other guests greet her. A little girl dressed in a cupid outfit arrives and reads a poem or message. Another litle girl presents flowers to the bride. Kitchen staff is shown preparing for the celebration. View of the large kitchen in the Eagles Nest. Members of the wedding party are seated at several tables around the dining room. Martin Bormann is seen speaking to Fegelein and his bride. Change of venue to the Great Hall of the Berghof, where Adolf Hitler poses with the newly wedded couple and converses with the bride.
Internees at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. Kurt Gatner, a former Chief of Prime Minister Schuschingg's body guard from Vienna, Austria. He states how he was badly treated at various concentration camps. He talks about the harsh punishments given at these camps. He thanks the American and other Allied forces for liberating him and many others from the camp. Other internees in the background. (World War II period).
Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrey Vyshinsky (aka Andrei Vishinsky), making an impassioned speech, in 1948. Adolf Hitler making one of his bombastic speeches, during World War II. Animated map of Europe, showing countries becoming puppet states under post-World War 2 expansionism by the Soviet Union. It also highlights unrelenting Soviet hold over postwar zones of occupation in Austria and East Germany. The map goes on to illustrate expanding communist reflected in politics of Italy, France, Greece, and Finland.