On 28th April, 1939 Hitler replies to Roosevelt's plea to avoid aggression. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag meeting in the Kroll Opera House. The insignia of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitler mocks and ridicules U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plea to avoid aggression. He recites a long list of nations that FDR ostensibly sought to protect from Nazi aggression. The members in the hall laugh. People cheer after he finishes his speech.
On the German Western Front in World War II a group of German troops bury the two-person crew of a French airplane that was shot down on September 11, 1939. The funeral, which takes place in Saarbrücken, is conducted with full military honors. The two French pilots were Lieutenant Jean Sueur and Captain Jacques Rosignol of 2 Escadrille de Reconnaissance 551. Each headstone is shown with the airman's hat on top. German soldiers place wreathes on the caskets and lower them into the ground. A large group of German soldiers, including a German military chaplain, are shown saluting the dead Frenchmen.
A camouflaged A-4 missile of Germany being launched at a site in Peenemunde in north east Germany. Missile takes off from its launch pad emitting fire and smoke and moves upwards as a flare is seen at the tail.
A-4 German missile takes off from a launch site in Peenemunde in north east Germany. A camouflaged missile emits smoke and fire at the time of launch and moves straight upwards. A fiery flare emerges from its tail as it moves upwards.
Fragment of speech by Fuhrer Adolf Hitler as he addresses the Reichstag, meeting in Kroll Opera House, on April 28, 1939, in Berlin. The German Reich national Eagle insignia in the background, and Nazi Swastikas on either side. Reichstag members respond with cheers and Nazi salutes. Next scene is unrelated: Adolf Hitler on podium, preparing to speak at a huge outdoor gathering at the Heldenplatz in Vienna, Austria, on March 15, 1938, following the Anschluss. The crowd chants 'Heil'. Civilians give Nazi salute during the gathering in city square.
Propaganda museum of Nazi ideology in Germany, early in World War 2. A German sign on the National Trade building (Landesgewerbeamt) advertising the "Eternal People" exhibit. Close-up views of various exhibits in the museum. Some track German history, others track the German rulers, Aryan race, and ethnicity over time. A man observes a map in the museum. Groups of people visit the museum, including a group of school girls. Nazi ideology and German history explained by means of charts, pictures, models and exhibits. Some exhibits extol ideal German workers and how labor and national production leads to the power and health of the individual and the country. An anti-Jewish exhibit discusses Nazi German anti-Jew population policies and blood purity laws and emphasizes eugenics (from the Nuremberg Laws; seeds of the holocaust and Jewish persecution), and depicts a Jewish man beside a road intersection with one direction pointing to Germany and the other to Palestine. Children look with curiosity at the exhibits. Several paintings on the wall. Exhibit of movement of people from farms to cities and Nazi ideology that earlier Germans were consumers and not producers is demonstrated.