General Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley and General Patton visit the Ohdruf concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. Generals and soldiers inspect the whipping rack for the prisoners. Talk to survivor inmates of the camp. Generals see the stack of starved, leaned and naked dead bodies of the prisoners brutally murdered by the Nazis. The dead bodies with gun shots in head, eyes and neck. Survivors demonstrate atrocities done to them by the Nazis. Courtyard of the camp covered by dead bodies of the inmates. Burnt bodies of inmates at a crematory on railway tracks. Members of the Nazi party on a truck, brought by force to visit the camp by Allies. A German Major is also among the visitors. Nazis, along with Americans visit the dead bodies, survivors, tortured and piles of dead bodies. The Nazis unmoved deny the knowledge of any such concentration camp by Nazi party. Arrested guards of the camp. At crematory on railway track list of tortures to the prisoners read. The Nazis show no emotion or pain.
German A-4 missile launches from a site in Peenemunde as it emits smoke. A meter records the readings related to the launch. A map shows the point from where A-4 was launched and an animation shows the trajectory of the missile. Missile covers a distance of 190 kilometers from the launch site to the point in sea where it crashes near a search boat. Scientists work to develop A-4 missile with the help of machines.
British Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber aircraft drop bombs over German targets in Dresden during night of February 13-14, 1945, during World War 2. Bombs impact and view of explosions and smoke. Two views of German scarecrow bombs exploding, designed to look like the explosion of an Allied bomber aircraft in order to intimidate the enemy. United States Army Air Force B-17 bombers attack the City of Dresden two days later on February 15-16, 1945, focusing on railroad marshaling yards. Relentless bombing by both the American and British forces destroy the city completely.
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.
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