Opening scene shows Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, accompanied by many German military officers, as he mingles with German citizens in Berlin. Admiring female workers speak to Goebbels. Goebbels boosts the German workers’ morale during the Allied bombings of Berlin in World War II. Camera focuses on the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). A military brass band leads troops marching through the Brandenburg Gate, along the Unter den Linden boulevard. View of the parade further along the Unter den Linden, with spectators watching from the sidewalks.
East Germans participate on May Day Parade held in Lustgarten in front of the Berlin Cathedral (Unter den Linden 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany) in East Berlin during the Cold War. East Germans march with banners in the Unter den Linden as they participate in May Day Parade. Chairman of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and President of East Germany, Wilhelm Pieck, waves at crowd from review stand. East Germans wave handkerchief and banners.
View of the State Opera building on Unter den Linden, in Berlin, in 1941, being reconstructed by order of Adolf Hitler, after being bombed in April, 1941, during World War 2. (He ordered the reconstruction in spite of wartime, to bolster German morale at the time.) Trams with equipment and supplies are seen in front of the building. Scene switches to inside, where crystal chandeliers are seen. Camera focuses on two artisans who are restoring gold decoration encircling interior columns. Next, numerous persons are seen at work at various restoration tasks in a section of the building. In another area, dressmakers are busy working on costumes. A woman is seen placing costume helmets on a rack. Various artisans work on statuary and other features of the building and contents. Brief glimpse of restorers examining a painted mural on the floor. Designers working with architectural drawings and models of the Opera house.
At start of film, a U.S. Army officer is seen talking with some soldiers preparing to depart Tay Ninh airfield for Nui-Ba-Den mountain, Vietnam. Next, the troops head across the field to helicopters of the 187th Assault Helicopter Co. (the Crusaders), waiting on marsden matting pavement at the field. A line of helicopters with troops aboard and engines running. They take off sequentially in trail formation. (Vietnam War period).
Soldiers atop well bunkered Nui Ba Den Mountain in Vietnam. Groups of soldiers. Some soldiers with cups in their hands. Soldiers sit and relax in a group before starting their sweep down the mountainside. A soldier reads a newspaper as other soldiers walk past. (Vietnam War period).
OV-10 FAC plane of the U.S. Air Force drops bombs on the enemy position in Vietnam during the Nui Ba Den Mountain Assault. U.S. soldiers move down the rugged mountainside. OV-10 FAC plane in flight over the enemy position and rockets fired. Plane maneuvers. The plane dives. Smoke arises from the base of the mountain as the bomb hits the target. Reflection of soldiers in a puddle of water. (Vietnam War period).