British Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber aircraft drop bombs over German targets during World War II. Bombs impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise up. United States Army Air Force 8th and 15th Air Force using B-17 bombers attack the industrial town of Pforzeheim at night. British Lancaster bomber aircraft also assist the American forces, destroying the city completely.
Opening title identifies this as the beginning of Leni Reifenstahl's Triumph of the Will, documenting Adolf Hitler and the German Nazi party at the 6th Party Congress. It opens with scenes from cockpit of a Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor airplane brushing over cloud tops as it travels to Nuremberg. Aerial views of the city of Nuremberg, as the airplane skims the rooftops. View from an another airplane of Lufthansa Ju 52 tri-motor passenger plane carrying Adolf Hitler. Seen below are formations of Sturmabteilung (Storm troopers) marching over a bridge. An enthusiastic crowd greets the airplane carrying Hitler as it taxis in on grass field. Hitler steps from the airplane followed by Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi party leaders.Crowd shouts Nazi salute Sieg Heil. Hitler stands in an open car in motorcade through the city. Roads lined with spectators controlled by Sturmabteilung. All render Nazi salutes. Point of view shots from moving car with camera positioned directly behind Hitler, showing him waving to the crowd as the parade passes through the city. Motorcade passes the 16th Century fountain statue known as the Little Gooseman. A little girl is held up by her mother so she can give Hitler a bouquet of flowers. Buildings are bedecked with swastika and tricolor flags. Hitler arrives at and enters the Deutscher Hof hotel. Hitler comes to the window of his room and waves. Heil Hitler is spelled out in lights below his window.
U.S. Army personnel in Strasburg seize German scientific records and personnel as a part of Alsos mission in World War 2. Two Sixth United States Army officer talk and jeeps parked in Strasburg. Man open gates and Captain Augustine leaves in jeep. Sixth Army men stand near jeeps parked.
Several people seen standing in queue in front of a building holding an German Export Show soon after the end of World War 2. A child seen standing in the line. General Eisenhower, General Joseph McNarney and other officers climb the stairs, leave the grounds and enter the cars.
View towards starboard bow of the German Rotor Ship, "Buckau", at anchor, being photographed from a small boat that rocks with the waves. Another view towards her starboard stern. Brief closeup glimpse of one of her 50 ft tall rotor cylinders. View of the "Buckau" from starboard, abeam. Change of scene shows a German Braunschweig-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine at anchor, viewed from the "Buckau." Camera pans port-side of the battleship, from stern towards bow, and continues panning left showing the deck and some crew of the "Buckau," from which it is filming. Next, two German warships are seen anchored, directly astern of the rotor ship.
Building of the U.S. Army headquarters, Kaiserslautern Sub Area. A guard stands outside the building. A sign: 'Billeting Office'. A woman stands at the reception desk. A sign on the receptioncounter reads: : 'Admittance prohibited to all personnel in civilian clothing not displaying government ration card and identification card." Woman carrying a child enters and shows cards. Her Army Sergeant husband, carrying groceries, behind her does not because he is in uniform. Views of multistory housing apartment buildings and the grounds around them. Cars parked outside the buildings. A man rides a bicycle on a path. A woman walks with her child.
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