Film opens showing Adolf Hitler, in uniform, on the balcony of his new Reichs Chancellery on Wilhelmplatz (completed in 1939). He is accompanied by Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess and Schutzstaffel Leader, Julius Schrek. Supporters crowd the square and cheer them. Scene shifts to a nighttime rally, and then to Closeup of Hermann Goering on a balcony with others (unidentified). Glimpse of a Schutzstaffel brass band marching in torchlight parade and Hitler saluting from a balcony. Schutzstaffel assembled in Wilhelmplatz (77 Wilhelmstraße, 10117 Berlin, Germany). Some spectators climb a tree to get better view of events. Crowd returning Nazi salute to Hitler standing alone on Reichs Chancellery balcony. Inserted slate reads: "Memorial Day, 1936."
Film opens with exterior view of Nuremberg cell prison, just north of the Palace of Justice, holding war criminals for the Nuremberg Trials. Interior view showing cell bloick area and guards patrol the halls. Cell door with name Karl Doenitz on it. Views of German Admiral Doenitz and Admiral Erich Raeder, looking over war planning charts. Ships burning at sea in nighttime. Glimpse of German U Boat Captain observing through periscope. Back at Nuremberg Prison, an American soldier checks cell of Joachim von Ribbentrop. German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop seen on steps of an airplane. Scene shifts to Nazi–sponsored so-called American Rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on February 20, 1939. A huge picture of George Washington dominates the stage where drummers play while flag-bearing marchers fill the stage. View of audience of 20 thousand persons, rendering Nazi salutes. Someone trying to interfere with the activity is quickly subdued on stage by men in military style uniforms. Scene shifts back to Nuremberg prison, where a soldier guard passes food through cell door to Julius Streicher (unseen). Closeup of Streicher speaking to crowd of people in Germany. Views of German Paramilitary Brown shirts (Storm troopers, or Sturmabteilung) during boycott preventing people from patronizing Jewish merchants. Next, victims liberated from Nazi concentration camp are seen being sprayed in delousing powder by American soldiers. Back at Nuremberg prison, a soldier stands outside the cell of Hermann Goering. Next, Goering is shwon in a scene eating at an outdoor table with other men, at a Nazi-sponsored public feeding event before World War 2. Brief view of German Chancellor, Heinrich Bruening, who fled Germany in 1934 as the Nazis were coming to power. A Graf Zeppelin airship, bearing Nazi Swastika insignia, is seen in flight over New York City. Crew member inside the Zeppelin, looking out a window as he plots a position on a chart. The Zeppelin casts a shadow over an ocean liner at sea, as it passes overhead. Back at Nuremberg cell prison, a guard opens a door with a key. Next seen shows several prisoners walking into a prison yard at an unidentified prison. A firing squad (unseen) is heard marching into position and firing their guns. Scene shifts to Japan, where a Japanese twin engine passenger plane is seen overhead, coming in for a landing. Official buildings are seen in Tokyo and jurists who will participate in war crimes trials. Scene shifts to war crimes trials authorized in Manila, by General Douglas MacArthur. Seen are Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita and another Japanese officer on trial at the High Commissioners Residence in Manila, in 1945. Views of ordinary Japanese soldiers. A court convening.
Prison at Nuremberg, north of the Palace of Justice, where Nazi prisoners are held during Nuremberg trials in 1946. Cell of Nazi Admiral Doenitz is seen, with his name over the prison cell door. Nazi Admirals, Karl Doenitz and Erich Raeder, during the war. Views of war crimes at sea, with burning ships in flames at night. American soldier looks into prison cell of Joachim von Ribbentrop. Von Ribbentrop boarding an airplane, during the war. A German American Bund rally in the United States at Madison Square Garden in 1939, with Patriotic image of George Washington and massed American flags. Americans giving Nazi salute as Fritz Kuhn speaks. Fight or scuffle on the stage of the meeting. American military guard places food into cell of Nazi Julius Streicher. View of Julius Streicher giving a speech. Street scenes of Jewish shops being vandalized and boycotted in Germany. Boycott of Jewish-owned stores in Germany including posters and paint labeling Jewish businesses, and a poster that says, "Die juden sind unser unglück" (which means "The Jews are our misfortune"). Emaciated and thin liberated Concentration camp inmates being deloused. American soldier looks into prison cell of Hermann Goering. View of Goering in civilian clothes, sitting with companions, before the war. The Graf Zeppelin airship in flight over New York City. Officer on board Zeppelin shown plotting a course from the bridge. Shadow of the zeppelin air ship cast over an ocean liner at sea. Prison guard opens a door and goes in. Prisoners file out of the building, ostensibly to face firing squad. Airplane landing at Japanese airfield and scenes of military staff and military gathering of Imperial Japanese forces in Tokyo Japan during World War 2. Japanese General staff in a meeting. A Japanese military leader during a surrender meeting in World War II.
On 14th March, 1939 President Hacha of Czechoslovakia arrives in Berlin as a guest of Hitler. Emil Hacha is accompanied by High-ranking German officers as he walks past an honor guard and band, on a wet street after dark, in Berlin, Germany. Hacha enters an automobile.
German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. German troops cross bridge. German artillery fires. German Ju 87 Stuka bomber aircraft in flight. Polish antiaircraft gunners on rooftop. street scenes in Warsaw. Poles run for cover in air raid. German Ju 88 aircraft bombing Warsaw. German soldier throwing hand grenade. Polish man driving team of horses flees bombing. Woman with new born baby. Polish victims of bombing laid out on ground. Americans and British citizens listening to radio broadcasts about the invasion. Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London. Prime Minister Chamberlain at his desk. City of Westminster and 10 Downing street with Bobbie on guard. British men building a Anderson shelter (bomb shelter) and covering it with dirt. British civilians being fitted with gas masks. Barrage balloons aloft. Newly recruited and mobilized British troops marching on a street in England with children on bicycles riding next to them.
Coat of arms of the city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Aerial bombing of Warsaw by German Luftwaffe during the invasion of Poland in World War 2. German soldiers fire artillery. People run for safety in devastated streets of Warsaw. A building in Warsaw lay in ruins. Soldiers and tanks rolling through country after Dunkirk. Warsaw in smoke during aerial bombings by German Luftwaffe. A burned car on street in Warsaw. Polish citizens evacuating as streets of Warsaw in smoke from German aerial bombings. Dead horses in Warsaw street. Polish man cuts horse carcass for meat. Horse skeleton after being scavenged by hungry Poles. People evacuate from burning Warsaw Radio building. German occupying forces enter Warsaw. In Rakow, near Warsaw, Polish and German officers, including Polish officer Kutrzwea and Colonel Aleksander Praglowski along with General Johannes von Blaskowitz sign the surrender of Warsaw in a railroad car on 29 September 1939