Reconstruction of Berlin, Germany. A building in the foreground. A sign board hanging from a pole. Vehicles drive past on a street. A double decker bus drives into a residential street. A building. People walk in front of the building. A magazine shop. Men look at magazines. A man buys a magazine from the shop. Civilians walk past the shop. Women look into the window of a jewelery store.
A crowd of many thousands of Germans, including Communists and National Socialists (Nazis) demonstrating against one another, on May 1st, 1932, in the Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany. Police have difficulty keeping the groups from rioting. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler making an impassioned speech in the tumult. Various views of the densely packed crowd. Scene shifts abruptly to a Nazi rally at Zeppeiin Field in Nuremberg, where thousands of Nazi SA Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) render Nazi salutes. Another shift of scene shows a German Youth rally for workers and the Führer being held in a city square.
Civilians gather on streets of Berlin and celebrate the socialist DDR (GDR) government in East Germany around 1949 or soon after. Uniformed band plays during a ceremony in East Germany. The spectators and a group of uniformed party leaders stand, cheer, and clap. A east German teenage girl kisses the flag. Next scene shows unrest and protests with burning flags in the streets of Berlin, East Germany, during the Uprising of 1953. Crowd burns a flag and then tears at another flag to destroy it. Crowd marches in the street in protest. Scenes of Soviet tanks rolling. Next scene shows a protest rally during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Narrator mentions revolt in Poland also. Large number of civilians march on roads and cut the center emblem out of a East German flag during protest.
East German soldiers and sailors marching in May Day parade. Bands marching. East German civilian spectators watch. Civilians march as they carry Soviet and East German flags.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler returns to Berlin during World War II. German officers await arrival of Hitler's train at a railroad station. Hitler exits and is greeted by Hermann Goering and other officers. Fireworks at night. Hitler and Goering at balcony of a building. Worker marks out sign identifying city of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Hitler youth run through an opened gate. German troops and vehicles enter a town. Hitler aboard the German pocket battleship, Deutschland, waves to small boat. A German Destroyer bearing number 51. Hitler and German Air Force Chief, Hermann Goering, on deck of battleship, Deutschland. Hitler leads parade celebrating peaceful annexation of Lithuanian city of Klaipeda (Memel) and Memelland. Formation of Nazi bombers in flight. Crowds render Nazi salute as Hitler arrives in open car. Crowd salutes Hitler standing at balcony of a building. German battleship, Deutschland, being docked, and Hitler disembarking. Hitler, standing by railroad train, responding to crowd of well-wishers.
Civilians march and carry colorful banners during May Day Parade in East Berlin, East Germany. Balloons in the air.
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