France under Nazi rule during World War II. A French delegation visits young Frenchmen working in a German ammunition factory. The delegation arrives. They discuss a document and then enter the ammunition factory.
Scenes from a tour by Gerd Von Rundstedt and Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his staff of Atlantic Wall in France during World War II. German heavy railroad gun Krupp K5 (Leopold) is wheeled out from a covered fortification. Various views of the German officers touring heavy gun emplacements, fortifications, and command centers of the Atlantic Wall forts. Group of officers walks by turnstile of heavy railway gun. Heavy artillery guns including barrel of a 12 inch gun elevated and pointed toward the sea. Many views of German heavy gun barrels being raised.
General Sir Alan Brooke, Prime Minister of UK, Winston Leonard S Churchill and General Jan Smuts on a ship sailing towards a beachhead in France. Views of Generals talking.
A United States Army ambulance backs up to stop in France during World War II. A litter is handed into tent. A casualty is carried out and put into ambulance. The ambulance drives off.
Views of battle between German Panzer Units and Allied Forces south of Caen, France, during World War 2. SS troop soldier looks through binocular from trenches. Explosions raise huge clouds of smoke. Close up view of SS tank ace Michael Wittmann and loader on a German Tiger tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101. (Wittmann wears Knights Cross and Swords military decoration.) German SS grenadiers in position. German tanks firing. Multiple views of wrecked British tanks, including one on its side. An abandoned British soldier helmet and gas mask on the ground. German artillery is fired. German soldier prone firing MG 34 machine gun equipped with TM 34 75-round double-drum magazine. German soldiers fighting in streets of town. Heavily bombed buildings of a French town south of Caen. German soldiers moving building to building. German soldiers firing flamethrower.
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi German Minister of Propaganda, drives out in the country to visit with Field Marshal Walter Model, at his field headquarters in France during World War II. Shown are his arrival and then his departure, with exchanges of Nazi salutes.