Nazi Germans start armament and intensify their preparations for war under leadership of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Interior view of the Nazi headquarters, destroyed by explosion of the anti-Hitler bomb plot in Germany, during World War II, known as the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler. Adolf Hitler at a railroad station awaits Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's train arrives; he descends and shakes hand with Adolf Hitler. The two leaders talk while other leaders stand by them. Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering with Schutzstaffe and Vice Minister Heinrich Himmler bid goodbye to Mussolini as he departs by train.
Free India Legion parade in Germany during World War II. German and Indian officers including leader of Indian independence movement, Subhash Chandra Bose, review Free India Legion members, former prisoners of war to serve Germany. Two soldiers holding Free India Legion flag. Insignia of the Free India Legion on the uniform of a soldier. Soldiers take an oath. Military vehicles driven in the parade. Soldiers in a truck. Soldiers pull a field artillery. They fire machine guns.
Effects of U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Germany during World War 2. German troops and civilians walk on street. Civilians clean up rubble. German civilians and troops in a chow line. Troops and civilians clean up cities, repair marshalling yards, and the buildings. Bombs falling over German targets from U.S. bomber planes. Animation of various targets in Germany shows Wilhelmshaven, Huls, Hamburg, and Schweinfurt, and the various products made there. Shows Marionburg where aircraft are made.
A building burns in Germany. Smoke rises as barn like building burns in Germany. Large crowd look at the building as it burns. Water being sprayed at the building to extinguish fire. (World War II period).
The Germans dig defensive positions on the eastern border of Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth, Reich Labor Service units and Baltic people dig defensive trenches on Germany's eastern border. View of Hitler youth lined up with shovels ready to fall out and dig. Hitler youth ride to the eastern front trench digging site on bicycles while holding shovels. At the trenches, men and women march carrying shovels and dig defensive positions. Mass hand digging effort underway by men and women and Hitler youth. Ground and aerial views of the trenches being dug. Wide aerial view of long line of jagged defensive trenches separating German held areas from the front with the Soviet Russian forces. English overlay narration describes difficult working conditions for the Baltic forced laborers, virtually slave labor, with poor working and living conditions.
Russian and American soldiers meet in Germany during World War II. Russian and American groups in Germany. They converse in sign language. Building in the far background. Officials discuss amongst themselves and a man writes down the information on a paper. Soldiers seated on the ground. One of the soldiers makes a sketch of the soldiers. Buildings in the background. Soldiers seated on the ground. One soldier plays accordion.
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