White Russian Cossack Cavalry on horseback ride along a street of Ban Jelačić Square, in Zagreb, Croatia, during World War 2. German military personnel watching them parade. German Cavalry officer, Lieutenant General Helmuth von Pannwitz, in fur hat, salutes the Cossacks as he stands next to Field Marshal Paul Ludwig von Kleist. Lined up Cossacks are decorated by Field Marshal Von Kleist. After decoration Cossacks ride past and demonstrate the charge with sabres drawn.
Pictorial map of Eastern Front in World War 2. German soldiers salute and one of them plays trumpet in front of the office. Flag of germany hoisted by a soldier. Field Marshal Busch, ending his military career, talks with an army General about some documents that seem to amuse them both. Busch's staff give him a candelabra as a gift. He says farewell to members of the staff.
German soldier at a 12.8 cm Pak 44 anti-tank gun focused on a road in Ukraine, during World War 2. German infantry make their way through the Pripyat (Pripet) marshes. At times they traverse flooded areas. Most are armed with rifles and hand grenades. One carries a StG-44 assault rifle. They move cautiously. Some fire a trench mortar and its shell explodes nearby. A large formation of German bombers is seen high overhead. German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attack nearby Soviet positions and explosions are seen in large numbers.
Period reenactment. A Nazi German Brown Shirt paints the word 'JUDE' (Jew) and a Star of David on window glass of a closed shop. A comrade stands by holding a Nazi flag. Brown Shirt holds sign reading: Germans! defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews! to encourage boycott of Jewish businesses shortly before World War 2. Nazi Brown Shirts do the same with several other shops. Views inside and outside the shops as "Jew" notices are painted on shop windows.
View of United States soldiers entering the city of Paris on military vehicles during liberation of Paris in World War 2. Cheering Parisian civilians welcome United States forces as they pass through streets. Locals from residential building wave soldiers and crowd on street look at a United states air force plane in sky. A wounded civilian is carried to ambulance. FFI members carry an injured woman though street. (World War II period).
As film begins, it shows three American paratroopers with a map, kneeling in a farm field, in Holland, during world War 2. They are consulting two local women kneeling beside them, who point it two directions. They all look up, aware of the camera. A Waco CG-4 glider is in the background, with its front hatch opened. Several paratroopers stand near it. Momentary glimpse of several troopers walking across the field toward their glider. Scene jumps back to the troopers and women, and then back, again, to troopers walking toward the glider. A local man ducks under the camera as it records the troopers crossing the field. Closer view of troopers gathered around the glider (its front hatch is closed), along with several local people, including the three women seen earlier. Soon, local people, including many youth gather around a trooper in a jeep that got stuck in a ditch. They try to free it. Several troopers ride in a horse-drawn cart. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers is seen inflight overhead. Scene shifts back to troopers in the horse-drawn cart. Local youth with bicycles stand watching them. Remainder of the film shows various views of supplies and equipment being dropped by parachutes from the B-24s. (Likely during Operation Market Garden.)
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