World War 2. Britain (United Kingdom) and France declare war on Germany. German infantry carrying Panzerschreck antitank weapons. British troops mobilizing for war. Sign reads "A Call to Arms." Groups of new recruit British soldiers marching in large columns, including soldiers from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. British Queen Elizabeth class battleship with other warships. Animated map showing units of British fleet blockading Germany at Suez, Malta, Gibralter, the English Channel,and the North Sea. Adolf Hitler and German General staff make war plans. Animated map shows European countries around Germany. Ice skaters near Windmills in Holland. Farmers harvest grain. Bicyclists in Netherlands. Radio towers broadcast Nazi propaganda. Joseph Goebbels. Hitler denying intent to harm other countries. German military planners identify Norway as a target. Map shows German U-boats using Norwegian fjords. Map shows British fleet at Scapa Flow, and blockading ships in range from Norway. April 9, 1940, German army enters Copenhagen as Danes watch. German freighters in Norwegian ports smuggle troops and war materiel. German warships proceeding up Norwegian fjords, carrying troops and equipment. German Ju-87 and Ju-88 bombers and Me 109 aircraft in flight. Ju-88 over treetops. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft carrying German soldiers. Quislings seize power in Norway. View of Vidkun Quisling. Nazi posting up rules for citizen residents of Oslo Norway.
Adolf Hitler greeted at an outdoor rally. He takes a seat with Hermann Goring and other Nazi dignitaries. Dr.Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, makes a propaganda speech in front of crowd, extolling Reich Chancellor Hitler and his ability to direct the Nation. Various views of crowd and Hitler youth, boys and girls, at the rally. Crowds cheering.
Scenes during the Kapp Putsch involving some Freikorps elements in Germany, in March 1920. Kapp troops seen outside the occupied Palace from which President Friedrich Ebert had fled. Anti-communist Freikorps troops erect barricades in the area and let only some people pass. Stores, shops and subway are seen closed during General Strike and unrest. The barricaded entrance of the Underground Bahn station is shown, with sign: "Bahnhoff, Friedrichstrasse". Freikorps in armed motorcars drive through a public square filled with pedestrians, and throw Kapp Putsch propaganda leaflets into the crowd. Pedestrians seen on sidewalks as a truck filled with Freikorps troops passes by. Close-up view of German President Friedrich Ebert, wearing a hat, seen at the end of the clip.
American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) relief efforts in Germany following World War 1 during a time of food shortages and economic devastation. Virchow hospital building seen. Children form a ring and sing in garden. Lyrics to the song they sing are shown on a printed page. It is a song of thanks to the Quaker people who provide them assistance. Two children seen sitting on a bed. Nursing and expectant mothers are seen sewing to earn income. Children sit on a table to eat, in a Kindergarten school.
View of the Tempelhof airfield. One of Reinhold Tiling's recoverable rockets is fired and rises high above the field. As its fuel is exhausted, it levels off and begins to glide down to earth on its extended fin-wings. Tiling, his assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and his mechanic Friedrich Kuhr, examine and pick up the recovered rocket as official observers gather around them. Tiling and his team pose, with the revovered rocket, for cameramen and reporters, Closeup of the rocket as Tiling touches the expended fuel cylinder. They then unfold fins and Tiling explains their function to reporters. Tiling and his team carefully raise another rocket on its launch frame at a different location, on sand dunes.Angela Buddenboehmer sits on the sand with the launch control as Tiling gives her the signal to close the circuit. The rocket fires and rises rapidly until its fuel burns out, when it begins to glide down on its wings.
General Semenoff stands out of a building. General Stresemann comes out of the building. Men stand at stairs in Germany.