At the Führer Headquarters (Führerhauptquartiere) or Wolf’s Lair, in Gierłoż, East Prussia (later Poland), German leader and Führer Adolf Hitler walks in a garden with a group of Nazi senior officials during World War 2. Hitler salutes guards while passing them. Hitler and the group of officials enter headquarters. Hitler meets with Otto Skorzeny, an Austrian-born SS Lieutenant Colonel ( Obersturmbannführer ) in the Waffen-SS. View of Skorzeny talking to Hitler.
Opening scenes show German young men and boys of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD or Reich Labour Service) forming up into units at a camp in Serbia, marching with shovels, and digging a drainage area during World War 2. Next scenes show Hitler Youth gathering in Breslau, lower Silesia, and participating in a summer athletic meet. A ceremony with many Hitler youth girls in synchronized calisthenics on the stadium field at the Hermann-Goering-Sports field. A young man does gymnastics on rings. Boy and girl spectators of the Hitler Youth watch the events from the stands and cheer. Youth competing in the long jump and pole vault events. Athletes participate in a relay race. Spectators watch swimming competitions and diving competitions at a swimming pool. Hitler youth leaders and other Nazi officers watch and smile from the stands.
Destroyed city blocks and rubble in Warsaw ghetto during World War 2. A man writes “WAWER” on pavement as reference to the 1939 massacre of 107 Polish civilians by German forces in Wawer, near Warsaw. Women leave flowers on pavement to commemorate victims in Wawer. Pavement Polish graffiti with the symbol of the PW Polish Underground State. Polish men play with a cartoon Adolf Hitler paper marionette puppet hung on a wall. Polish men hoist cartoon Adolf Hitler puppet in effigy up a lamppost. Bottom of streetlamp with graffiti words written in German.