On General Erich Friedrich Ludendorff's 70th Birthday, he is honored by the German Army. German Defense Minister, Colonel-General Werner von Blomberg and General Werner von Fritsch, convey the best wishes of the German Army. General Ludendorff, accompanied by other officials, walks along a field. German officer Franz Soldte, German Prince William II, and Generals Werner von Blomberg and Werner von Fritsch attend the event. A band plays music. Troops parade along a street. Formations of biwing aircraft fly overhead. Ludendorff speaks to the gathering.
Trial of a German carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. son of pilot Charles Lindbergh in Flemington, New Jersey. A ship underway at sea. The relatives of Isidor Fisch, a German Jewish friend and business associate of Hauptmann aboard a ship. They walk up a gangplank to board a boat. A view of the city. A close up of the relatives of Isidor Fisch arrive from Germany to testify at Hauptmann trial. The relatives come out of a building and get in a bus. The bus leaves. Cars and bus drive on a road. A man works at his home as the woman had gone for the testimony. A man peals vegetables. He cooks food. The women seated for the hearing. The man sits on a table and eats food. He plays with his dog. The man washes plates.
A hastily arranged cabinet meeting, to discuss the situation concerning Germany, at 10 Downing Street in London, England. Ministers arriving include Foreign Secretary John Simon, Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden, Lord Chancellor John Sankey, Postmaster General Kingsley Wood, War Minister Douglas Hogg, Education Minister Lord Halifax, Secretary of State for the Dominion James Henry Thomas, Colonial Minister Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman, Home Secretary John Gilmour and Head of India Office Samuel Hoare. Cameramen take pictures.
Adolf Hitler reviews a parade in Nuremberg. Many Nazi Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) and SS (Schutzstaffel) gathered for the parade on Zeppelin Field (Zeppelinstraße, 90471 Nürnberg, Germany) at the Nazi Party Rally Grounds. Troopers march and give the Nazi salute. Hitler reviews the parade and assembly. He walks up a path towards a monument. Troops on either side. He gives the Nazi salute before the monument. SS (Schutzstaffel) soldiers march with 'Germany Awake' flags.
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler delivers an address at a stadium in Nuremberg, Germany. Hitler Youth in uniform shout and cheer at the rally. Hitler's motorcade on the stadium tracks. Young girls give the Nazi salute. Hitler and other Nazi leaders in the car. Hitler waves and gives the Nazi salute. The young boys wave and cheer Hitler. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and other leaders give the Nazi salute. The crowd sings the National Anthem.
Ernst Hanfstaengl (known as "Putzi"; an early friend of Adolf Hitler) sitting in an apartment in Berlin, Germany, smoking a long tobacco pipe as he shares lunch and conversation with Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf and a woman (possibly Ingeborg von Wedel Helldorf?). He shows them a sculpture of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler by German sculptor Josef Thorak, whom he says the couple will meet later that morning. Close-up view of the bust of Hitler. Hanfstaengl plays the piano for the couple, introducing the song as one he wrote called "The Heart of Song." Behind him, on a book shelf, is a bust of Paul von Hindenburg and a photograph of Adolf Hitler.