Weimar, Germany during World War 2. The Wartburg Castle atop a hill an hour from Weimar, Thuringia. Officials and dignitaries visit the Wartburg Castle (Wartburg-Stiftung Auf der Wartburg 1 99817 Eisenach). They take a tour through the hallways. Elderly men explore the castle. Pillars, arches, and other characteristic Romanesque style architecture. A garden at the castle. Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels addresses German writers and artists in Weimar. The guests seated in a hall hear his speech. The German Swastika symbol on stage.
Fuhrer Adolf Hitler in Germany during World War II. A building in Berlin. Parades and celebrations in the city. Me and women march towards the building. Civilians and soldiers pass under German Nazi banners and symbols. Hitler and his men ride through Berlin in a convertible. People greet him with the Nazi salute. Hitler reaches the destination and greets the waiting dignitaries. Hitler then salutes and greets the crowd as he enters the building and acknowledges the crowds from a balcony. Germans cheer and hail Hitler.
A “Jiu-Jitsu Club” patch. The Jiu-Jitsu Club of Dresden demonstrate martial arts in front of Nazi officers and soldiers in Germany during World War II. Judokas teaching soldiers art of judo. Slow motion shots of hand-to-hand combat using judo techniques. Troops and Nazi German officers applauding. Judokas jump over four to eight German soldiers. Judokas engage in a Jiu-Jitsu match. A Judoka demonstrates with a charging soldier.
Animated maps show locations in Russia. Cold and snow force Spanish Blue Division troops under German Army (250. Infanterie-Division) use dynamite for digging defensive positions near Leningrad. They explode dynamite and make room for gun emplacements. Blue Division soldiers fashion trenches in the snow and erect crude shelters of wood. After firing artillery, an officer looks through periscopic sighting binoculars. The troops engage in battle over snow covered field, pulling artillery piece. Chimney of Soviet blockhouse is hit. Spanish troops are decorated by German officials. German cavalry General Georg Lindemann presents Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Spanish commander, General Agustín Muñoz Grandes. (World War II period).
German planes bombing Sevastopol. Map of Ukraine highlights Sevastopol. German planes bomb Sevastopol. German pilots fly bombers. Explosions on field. Demolished Russian fortifications. Wrecked buildings and rubble. (World War II period).
African American Preacher speaking from church pulpit to his congregation about threats to Liberty, during World War 2. Closeups of parishioners listening intently. Suddenly, in contrast, the statue of a German Eagle atop a wreathed swastika is seen followed by views of Adolf Hitler looking over maps with his war planners. Next, a Japanese Rising Sun Naval Ensign flag is seen followed by views of Japanese Naval war planners aboard ship, and Japanese war planners at an Army headquarters. Glimpse of Hitler and staff amused by something at Christmas holidays. (A decorated Christmas tree stands in the background.) An entire huge apartment house collapses from German bombing in Europe. An aerial view from a bomber with smoke rising from bomb strikes below, displays labels reading: "Thirteen Countries Conquered," and "150,000,000 People Enslaved." A German officer stands beside a group of hanged persons at a public execution. Scene shifts completely to formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G4M bombers (Mitsubishi Navy Type 1 attack bombers) releasing bombs in flight. Bombs exploding at various sites on the ground. Chinese civilians fleeing from Japanese bombing during the 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Bombs bursting and destruction. Chinese rescuing wounded and collecting the dead. Japanese bombs striking U.S. battleships, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. American sailors running to battle stations and firing antiaircraft guns from a ship. Formations of Japanese warplanes diving from overhead. Several U.S. Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers with cockpits open (possibly representing Japanese dive bombers in a movie ) drop bombs. Explosions and fires from bombing. American sailor furiously turns controls to raise elevation of antiaircraft gun. Japanese airplane streaming black smoke passes overhead. U.S. sailors scrambling to battle stations on a ship. Japanese fighter plane firing its machine guns on a strafing run passes over a ship. An African American sailor lying on a deck, fires a M1917 Browning machine gun and falls back. Another sailor takes his place.