Opening slate says, "Hindenburg's former troops vow loyalty." German President Paul Von Hindenburg in Berlin, Germany. Civilians gather to watch a parade. German soldiers being lined up. President Hindenburg reviews the Reichswehr troops. Troops march as Hindenburg and other officers salute. Troops march past the reviewing officers. Timeframe is near end of Weimar Republic, as the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) were gaining prominence.
View of the Tempelhof airfield. One of Reinhold Tiling's recoverable rockets is fired and rises high above the field. As its fuel is exhausted, it levels off and begins to glide down to earth on its extended fin-wings. Tiling, his assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, examine and pick up the recovered rocket as official observers gather around them. Tiling and his team pose, with the revovered rocket, for cameramen and reporters, Closeup of the rocket as Tiling touches the expended fuel cylinder. They then unfold fins and Tiling explains their function to reporters. Tiling and his team carefully raise another rocket on its launch frame at a different location, on sand dunes.Angela Buddenboehmer sits on the sand with the launch control as Tiling gives her the signal to close the circuit. The rocket fires and rises rapidly until its fuel burns out, when it begins to glide down on its wings.
Cantor and mixed choir rehearsing on Yom Kippur Eve. Cantor, Leo Gollanin, is seen singing in front of a mixed choir of Jewish men and women inside the Fraenkelufer Synagogue at Kottbuser Ufer 48-50, Kreuzburg, Berlin. Closeup of women holding sheets of music as they sing "Aus Dem Tuefe" ("From the Deep," referring to sober prayers). Scene shifts to the choir director, wearing a kippah (yarmulke), directing the choir. The women are assembled in a circle with men behind them. Scene shifts, again, showing the Cantor and singers from the front, in a wider shot, followed by another view from a balcony above.
Flag of Berlin displays image of Brandenburg Gate and slogan: 'Jeder Einmal in Berlin'. View of the actual Brandenburg gate in Berlin. Street cleaners using water tank truck and broom truck, drive on street. Men clean stone road with brooms. Man pushes a hand cart. Traffic on the roads. Woman walks her dog. Shopkeepers opening up in the morning. A woman buys milk from a vendor at curbside. People stand in front of shops. Trucks leaving a factory, in a row. Vehicular traffic on the roads. Women talk on a sidewalk. A boy watches a man, wearing an apron, ringing a handbell on the sidewalk. Several people on the street.
A nurse talks and laughs with two girls. She gives a bottle with nipple to one, who drinks from it. Modern curvilinear multi-story residential apartment buildings. Trains pass above each other on crossing railroad bridges, while an excursion boat and barge pass below on a river. Trucks and electric trams pass on the street. Berlin Policeman directs traffic. A massive clock tower. Men at an outdoor soup kitchen. A Berlin policeman is among those eating soup. German people sit in an open-air sidewalk restaurant. Chefs prepare food in the kitchen. Dishes cleaned in the kitchen. Food is served to the diners. Double decker buses pass by. Women squeeze sausage links from an extruding device. Sausages placed on racks. Men drink beverages and eat at a restaurant counter. Railroad porter sits on train station platform and eats a sandwich while people walk past, behind him. Old man, driver of horse-drawn carriage, wearing top hat and heavy coat, sits atop the carriage eating a sandwich. Petrol station attendant services an automobile in the gasoline station. Man on sidewalk eats items from a paper bag. Woman decorating store window behind him. Bicycle parked against building.
Berlin, Germany. Views of automobile traffic in street, woman wraps fish and sells to other woman, men waking in busy market streets, two men with wooden beer barrels loaded on a horse cart pass by the street. A man working on beer barrels in a manufacturing unit. Glass beer bottles pass through filling machines. A nurse plays with children in a garden. Tall buildings and complexes with glass windows, tram passes over the railroad bridge while small boats pass underneath. Streetcars, trucks, cars on a busy street. View of a police officer directing traffic. Brief moments of audio from the scenes accompany a few of the images.