An 85-year old former marine engineer and U-boat designer, arrives for a visit to a modern German submarine during World War 2. It is raining and he carries an umbrella. Crew members help him aboard the docked boat. He stands in the main control room, as crew members explain the features of their U-boat. Next he is seen back on deck with a young woman. The Captain returns his umbrella and the two step back onto the dock, as an officer salutes.
As film opens, a sign in German is displayed reading "Soldier You enter an area with brave and believing people who also know and have overcome carpet bombing." Camera focuses on a large seemingly undamaged cathedral. German troops are seen gathering up their gear and preparing to move during World War 2. Glimpse of a German sailor standing nearby. People boarding a tram with the cathedral in the background. A truck driver stopped and presenting identification to a German soldier on the sidewalk. German troops with their gear, including bedrolls, walking en masse toward and past the camera. Several older civilian men in the background. Signs on building walls (in German) reading "With the Leader to Victory" and "Now fight even more to Victory."
A large cathedral dominates the opening scene. It seems relatively undamaged although their are destroyed buildings all around it from bombing during World War 2. People are seen carrying their belongings as they flee the area. They pass through narrow corridors between destroyed buildings. View of an orphanage named St. Catharina. View of infants in cribs inside the orphanage. Staff and nurses leading the children out of the building and then loading them aboard a bus. One attendant giving treats to very small infants. Staff waving goodbye to the children and caregivers on the bus, as it departs. Refugees using wagons pulled by cattle to transport them and their belongings. Livestock on the hoof being herded along a road.
Methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War II. German navy officers and sailors gathered in a discussion, with the sailors wearing life vests. German Neger torpedo-carrying miniature submarine, also known as a "human torpedo" is seen hoisted. Camouflaged Neger being transported by a truck trailer along road. An operator getting into Neger. Shows beached Neger. Men around Neger. Neger being released on water. Operator in dome of the Neger. Another German human torpedo goes underwater. Human torpedo performs radical maneuver. Allied ship as seen from human torpedo.
Dramatizes the methods used by Axis powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War II. German Seahund midget submarine on a carrier and hoisted on dockside. Seahund underway at sea. Seahund underwater. Interiors of Seahund with an operator at control and firing of torpedo under sea. Periscope view from Seahund. Seahund surfaces and crewmen on seahund.
Film opens showing American soldiers riding in an open tracked personnel carrier, along a road in France, during World War 2. They pass a burning destroyed German tank at the roadside. A U.S. Army truck full of troops and a jeep follow the personnel carrier. Next dragon's teeth tank traps are seen in the snow. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer and a truck are parked near the dragon's teeth. A gunner atop the M10 fires his M2 Browning heavy machine gun. The M10 continues to move past the dragon's teeth. Infantry are seen accompanied by a whitewashed M4A3(76) Sherman tank. Other troops are settled into positions in the snow beside the narrow road. View from behind advancing troops. Explosions in a hillside as shells strike from an M4A3(105) firing rounds. White smoke rising from phosphorous shells fired into a German village. An M4A3(76) tank firing rounds in the village. Sherman medium tanks moving through rubble and then on a town street. Two M4A3(75) tanks parked side-by-side in the town. Tank commander in one points down the street, as hatch in the nearest one begins to open. U.S. infantry moving through the town accompanied by these tanks. Armored infantry hunker down behind a tank as it passes a church building. Some soldiers scamper down a hill toward village wooden buildings. Two are seen escorting a German prisoner, who collapses and has to be helped to his feet. Three other U.S. soldiers are approached by a surrendering German soldier with his hands in the air. Next American soldiers are seen taking several surrendering German soldiers into custody.