Opens with German troops, including World War I veterans, parading before Crown Prince Wilhelm. The Imperial flag displayed on the reviewing stand. Scene shifts abruptly to Adolf Hitler at an outdoor podium giving an impassioned speech and then jumps to a nighttime torch light rally and parade of Nazi SA (Sturmabteilung) Storm troopers. Their leader, Ernst Röhm, presents them to Adolf Hitler, who is standing on raised platform. He and Röhm exchange Nazi salutes and Hitler shakes his hand. Hitler continues saluting the passing parade of SA marchers. An inordinately large faint image of Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess is seen off to the right , while Hitler is clearly silhouetted against the black night background.
Life of German Field Marshal and President Paul von Hindenburg in Germany. Officers and civilians at the Tannenberg Memorial, in Hohenstein, East Prussia (11-015 Olsztynek, Poland). They hold Nazi flags at a rally commemorating Germany's defeat of Russian invasion in August 1914 during World War I. Paul Von Hindenburg walks on a path. Officers lined up on either side. Hindenburg greets Adolf Hitler at the Tannenberg Memorial.
Germans gathered in the streets of Germany. Nazi stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung (SA), spread anti-Jewish propaganda all around. A crowd gathered around Jewish stores to boycott the businesses and protest against Jews. Nazis in a car hold Swastika flags and shout slogans. Germans on bicycles going all around spreading Anti -Jewish propaganda.
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler reviews SA torchlight parade in Germany. Hitler and other Nazi officials, including: Goering, Hess, and Goebels, in a balcony. Stormtroopers ("Brownshirts") march with Nazi flags. Leaders in the balcony give the Nazi salute. A military band plays. Hitler, flanked by Goering and Hess, in the balcony.
German film entitled Yesterday and today. The "yesterday" portion Opens showing miserable situation of post-World War I economic depression in Germany. The interior of an idle abandoned factory. River barges sitting covered and unused. The closed entrance to an idle factory. In a brighter "today" part of the film, machinery is seen moving. People on bicycles and walking, fill sidewalks and streets going to work. More machinery seen operating.Smoke billows from industrial smoke stacks. More views of manufacturing machinery in operation. Adolf Hitler in civilian clothes is seen addressing a gathering of workers in a factory. He extols the German workers. Views of heavy construction machinery at work and arches being built for a long high bridge across a river. More views of bridges and highways under construction.
Christening of new German aircraft in presence of cabinet ministers in Germany. Crowd assembled around an aircraft. The new aircraft, "Hindenburg", is christened by Minister of Aviation, Hermann Goering, in presence of other cabinet ministers.