Film begins showing livestock in stalls eating hay. Next, an auction is seen in progress. The auctioneer signals a final sale by striking a board with a wooden mallet. The new owner leads the animal away on a tether. Adolf Hitler is seen in uniform speaking at a podium, extolling German workers, against a background of waving wheat and farmers using scythes to harvest it. The farmers continue, placing the sheaves of wheat into wagons. Scene shifts fo grains of wheat being smoothed with a shovel. A Nazi guard in black uniform stands before a structure displaying a sign reading: Aldolf-Hitler-Roog. A car carrying Hitler enters a rural village area, where a woman steps in front of it to stop it. She speaks to a smiling Hitler as she points toward her newly built neighborhood of homes.
Two girls practice gymnastics in garden. Same girls, nieces of Arthur Kannenberg, pose near headlights of Mercedes car and hold out a small Nazi flag mounted near the headlights. (The older girl is likely Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, born March 5, 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark). Arthur Kannenberg arrives and kisses the girls. In next scene, the two girls and a third, younger girl, present a bouquet of flowers to their grandfather on his 73rd birthday. Their grandmother stands next to them. The grandmother and the girls walk along a sidewalk and are met by another man and woman, possibly the girls's parents, outside the Villa Luise. Camera pans upward showing identifying sign on the building.
View of a semi-underground bunker located in the western Nazi German defense fortification line called the “Siegfried Line” before World War 2. View of farmlands near the Siegfried Line. Snow covered bunkers and pillboxes in the Siegfried Line as seen in aerial view.
President Franklin D Roosevelt leads the nation's protest against prosecution of Jews in Germany. Roosevelt during a recording of the plea. In Germany, Jewish owned shops with broken windows following Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) depict Nazi brutality in Germany. Palo Alto, California: Former President Herbert Hoover expresses indignation at the brutal intolerance of the Nazis and predicts their 'moral isolation'. He also expresses American support for Jews and Christians in Germany and compares their brutality to the destruction of religious worship by the Bolsheviks in Russia. New York: Reverend RI Gannon of Fordham University and Methodist Bishop Edwin H Hughes raise their voices against the outbreaks of violence and hate against Jews in Europe. They compare the Nazis to the original Huns and make a plea for the Jews.
A refugee camp at the Czech-German border in Europe, around time of German occupation of Sudetenland. Refugee people including many Jewish refugees in front of tents at the refugee camp where they have fled from violence in Germany. Tent houses in a line. A man stands near a bicycle. A woman comes out of a tent house. Women talk in front of the tents. Tables and other articles kept on the ground. A bed outside a tent house. The women talk. Close up views of faces of some of the women refugees. Vegetation in the foreground. Newspaper headlines about Nazi violence against jews in Germany including Kristallnacht events.
Protest against Nazi Germany held in New York City in the weeks after the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany. A sign reads "German Exposition Christmas Market Now Open." Anti-Nazi protesters march carrying picket signs along a sidewalk in front of the exposition of German goods. One of the signs reads "Boycott Nazi Goods." Another sign reads "German Exposition Christmas Market Dec 16-24". American and Nazi flags fly from the building.