Trains with driver-less locomotives collide in Belgium during World War I. The trains burn. The collided trains in view. Men inspect the collided trains. The German troops build the railroad. Germany's Railroad Engineers Corps restore a bomb damaged tunnel.
An animated map depicts advance of the Russian and Austrian Army during World War I. Russian troops pushed back the Austrian troops and advance through Lemberg. The map points at various places like Grodek, Lemberg and Grubieszow. The Russian troops pushed the Austrians back from various places and moved forward. General Von Hindenburg stands in a balcony of a building. He comes downstairs. German Army marches along a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Soldiers walk on a pier at a waterway. Supply wagons, cavalry and infantry move forward towards the front. People watch the soldiers. Soldiers stand near a huge wrecked bridge. Rebuilding of the bridge by the engineers. The bridge under construction. Soldiers advance on the battlefield. Animated troops show activities of the troops and location of places.
German staged documentary titled 'Deutsches U-Boot Auf Kaperfahrt' shows a German submarine cruise at a German coast during World War I. German ships and U-boats at a dock in Germany. A German Navy officer disembarks from a ship at the dock. Torpedoes and supplies are loaded up on a U-boat. Crew members come aboard the U-boat. They push the ship away from the submarine. The German U-boat puts out to sea.
A German documentary about German U-boats attacking enemy ships in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. A German U-boat underway in Atlantic ocean or North Sea Atlantic. The U-boat surfaces and goes underwater. Interiors of the U-boat showing German Navy personnel at work. An enemy ship is sunk by the Germany U-boat torpedo attacks.
Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Commander of the German Navy at the outbreak of World War 1. He exits a taxi cab in Berlin, Germany. He pays the driver. Two Berlin city policemen walk pas the camera. Von Tirpitz turns and walks away from the taxi, crossing the street.
The Deutschland merchant submarine, of the North German Lloyd Shipping Company, departing the docks in New London Connecticut. The submarine had just completed repairs following a November 16 collision with the tugboat T.A. Scott Jr., while attempting to depart New London. Sailors on the deck of the submarine Deutschland are seen as the submarine departs for Germany, carrying silver bullion, and evading the Entente Powers merchant shipping blockade. A ship in the background. Submarine submerges into water.