Views of an unfinished underground German factory found after World War 2, near Muehldorf (Muhldorf) am Inn, east of Munich. It was intended to manufacture Me 262 jet aircraft engines and parts. A person walks out of the underground factory site. A truck moves on a road. Large equipment working. Construction materials and equipment at work. Small houses built.
Concentration camp scenes used in evidence during post-war World War 2 prosecution of Nazi war criminals. A Nazi concentration camp. U.S. troops standing outside a building. Medics treat and carry emaciated prisoners from a camp. A U.S. Naval officer, prisoner at a camp, is interviewed. He speaks about execution of U.S. prisoners of war and describes various atrocities and means used to kill prisoners. Man shows a club with barbed wire on it used to beat prisoners. View of dead bodies of prisoners in rail car under layer of snow. Dead bodies of people piled up on the ground.
A film dramatizes the rise of Nazi party and corresponding life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. A Nazi flag being hoisted. A German couple seated. Two men talk in a street. A Nazi brownshirt harangues civilians on a street. People listen to him and do not unite to object. Karl, a farmer, listens. He tills a piece of land. Nazi officers close down a shop. A man works in an ammunition factory as a war production worker. He returns home from work. His children are eating food. German equipment and troops on advance. The ammunition factory worker joins the German Army and leaves for the war front. He kisses his wife as he bids goodbye. German troops loaded onto a truck advance. Artillery is fired and infantry advances ahead. German troops fight against the Allies in Stalingrad, Soviet Union and Normandy, France.
Aircraft gun camera footage shows tracer bullets travel toward a German Messerschmitt Me-109 and Focke Wolf Fw-190 fighter aircraft in flight over river. Fw-190 leaves behind a white smoke trail.
Soviet officers, under cover of camouflage netting, look through binoculars, during World War 2. Soldiers remove foliage camouflage from T-34 tanks hidden in a forest. A T-34 moving out of the forest shedding some foliage as it proceeds. The tank climbing a hill. A group of BT tanks moving across a field while under fire. Smoke rising all around from shells bursting. Infantry running , under shell fire. Marshal Georgy Zhukov and staff looking skyward from bunker under camouflage netting. Wide view of infantry charging across a field with shells exploding all around. Marshal Zhukov speaking on field telephone. Soviet soldiers hurriedly removing foliage camouflage from amphibious trucks (American Lend Lease DUKWs). Closeup of soldiers riding in one. Many are seen in various views as they proceed toward a river and plunge into the water. Closeup of two DUKWs underway. filled with armed soldiers. A woman soldier drives one of the amphibious vehicles. A soldier in one, uncoils wire from a large spool, as the vehicle runs in the water. Wide view of the DUKWs heading across the wide river. Then German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attack the amphibious vehicles. View upward to a formation of them peeling off and diving toward the Soviet amphibious vehicles. Bombs bursting all over the river. On the river shore, batteries of Soviet antiaircraft guns fire at the German planes. Soviet soldiers rush ashore after reaching the opposite river bank, as attacking German planes fly overhead. Gun camera views from a Soviet aircraft engaging a German plane in a dogfight. Another view of Soviet soldiers leaving their amphibious vehicles. Two are burning at the shoreline. More views of German Ju-87s diving. Soviet aircraft gun camera view of German airplane being hit by its gunfire and exploding. Another view of Marshal Zhukov observing the battle front. A piece of the downed German airplane falls into the river..
U.S. aircraft parked and operating at German airfield near end of World War 2. United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning and German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (stork) German liaison aircraft parked on the base. P-38 twin engine fighters, P-47 fighters, and C-47 transport aircraft taxiing and taking off from the air base. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft parked at the air base.