Slate reads “Geheime Kommandosache” (“secret commando operation” in English). Junkers Ju-52 transport plane tows a large German glider. Both the Junkers Ju-52 and the glider aircraft taking off .
Two Rheinmetall-Borsig JATO units mounted on wing of Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-52 transport aircraft while in flight. The JATO units fire jet flame in flight.
Cologne bankers gather for a meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Melvil O. Tuhus, head of fiscal affairs with the Cologne Allied Military government, after World War II. Lt. Colonel Tuhus speaking to the bankers inside a dilapidated room. A broken door leans on the wall. German bankers listening to Colonel Tuhus during the meeting.
German military officers mingle with civilian opera patrons entering the Opera House in Bayreuth, Bavaria, for a performance of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, by Richard Wagner. A program for the performance is shown. The final scenes of the Act are shown and the curtain closes.
60,000 attendees, including many veterans of World War I, march to the Tannenberg battlefield for the dedication of the Tannenberg Monument. Tannenberg Monument dedication ceremony commemorates the German victory over Russian forces in August, 1914, and fallen German soldiers during World War I. German Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, who officiates at the ceremony, also celebrates his 80th birthday.
Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower sits for group portrait with other U.S.military leaders and a British General, following the end of World War Two, in Europe. Among others seen, in the front row of the portrait, are General George Patton, General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges, and the British General. A soldier stands with a horse sent as a gift, to General Bradley, from Soviet Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev. The horse blanket under the saddle bears a white star. Generals Hodges and Patton examine the horse. General Patton looks in its mouth. General Bradley and General Eisenhower walk around the horse and discuss it.
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