After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the exterior front of the German Reich Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany. A plaque in German identifies it as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP (Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party). Camera moves through various rooms of the building showing wreckage. In one room a world globe, a table and some broken furniture are shown. Scene changes to an animated map of Europe centered on Germany that depicts the dramatic expansion of German conquest in beginning of World War 2. It then shows further expansion with German invasion of the Soviet Union. From then on It adds a line directed to India (labeled in Russian) and another pointed into North America.The map then sends more lines covering the Continent of Africa and the South and Central America. These represent a plan for world conquest. View of a German three engine twin tail seaplane being launched by a catapult. Closeups of the plane in flight. Scene changes to German paratroopers jumping from a Junkers 52, three engine transport plane. Aerial view from above of the paratroopers leaping from the aircraft and from below as they descend with their chutes billowing out above them. Ground view of them landing on sand in North Africa. German troops on motor cycles, half track personnel carriers ( Sd.Kfz. 250 ) and Panzer III tanks. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel standing with his staff, directing elements of his Afrika Korps forces in North Africa. Smiling German troops riding in an open Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track personnel carrier. A huge explosion and dense black smoke is seen. Then, a German Heinkel HE 111 bomber is seen maneuvering overhead. Brief glimpse from an aircraft strafing an armored vehicle on the ground. Suddenly a submarine's periscope is seen just above the water and a transport ship (or freighter) is seen as through the periscope. Next, inside a German submarine, the Captain lowers his periscope and scene shifts to bow of submarine surfacing and the ship is seen burning and exploding. A torpedo is launched from a surfaced submarine and it strikes a ship creating a huge explosion and fireball.
The Allies exercise air superiority over Germany in final days of World War 2. Gun camera footage from U.S. 8th Air Force P-47M, Number 44-21160, UN-F, "Devastatin' Deb, flown by Capt. John C Fahringer, Lima, Ohio. assigned to the 63rd Fighter Squadron of the 56th Fighter Group. He strafes German aircraft and hangars at Stendal airfield, near Berlin, Germany. Burning aircraft in front of a hangar.
Aftermath of World War II in Berlin, Germany. Trees and soldiers in the foreground as explosions occur in the countryside in Germany. German tanks strafed by Allies as explosion occurs and smoke rises.
Fall of Berlin, Germany in Battle of Berlin during World War 2. Russian Army attacks Germany. Flames and smoke rise from buildings. Russian soldiers fire artillery and run through the streets of Berlin. Survivors read signs in German language posted on the walls. The signs instruct the German civilians to clean up the streets. Old people carry bricks. Women shovel debris. Hand carts on the streets. Past events show people crowded on streets and cheering as the Nazi soldiers pass by. The civilians fight for bread and wait in line for soup. An old woman walks on the street as a building burns.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Yalta conference in Ukraine. American and Russian troops meet at Elbe River in Aerial views of destroyed buildings in Berlin, Germany. German officers sign surrender documents in Rheims. President Harry S. Truman, Stalin and Churchill meet at Potsdam conference in Germany. American troops fight in Iwo Jima, Japan. American flag raised. Aerial views of ruins in Tokyo. (World War II period).
Bomb damage after the Battle of Berlin during World War II. Ruins of damaged buildings. Pedestrians walk on road. Civilians enter the subway entrance. Stones and bricks of bomb-damaged building lay past entrance of the Berlin U-Bahn subway. Sign above subway entrance displays a large letter "U". Beside it is a smaller sign that shows an arrow pointing to the entrance which says "Air Port Tempelhof". View of people of all ages descending stairs of subway.