Colonel Charles Lindbergh addresses people in New York City, United States. Interior of the Manhattan Center during the America First Committee rally. People gather inside the building. Colonel Charles Lindberg at a microphone. He talks about the position of the United States during World War II underway in Europe. He speaks the protectionist and anti-war sentiment, stating, "When England asks us to enter this war, she is considering her own future, and that of her Empire. In making our reply, I believe we should consider the future of the United States and that of the Western Hemisphere." People cheer and applaud.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses youth in the United States. The President seated at a desk in his office in Washington DC. He addresses the youth of the United States outlining the changes that have occurred in American life. He states that the changed conditions require a new approach.
Brief views of ordinary American people and their music and reading activities, including: Scenes of many different radios in all locations, and hands on dials of radios, including console radios, portable radios in many rooms of the house, car radios, and hand-carried (vintage boom box) radio. A jukebox and a bobby soxer (bobby socks fashion), dancing; Crowd dancing to a swing band at a jazz night club; Older people doing country dances; Xavier Cugat conducting his orchestra; Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony being played in the Hollywood Bowl; African American jazz musician playing trumpet; a school marching band; newspaper being printed on a printing press; a news stand filled with papers and magazines; numerous city newspapers; a library filled with books; a Dick Tracy comic strip.
Animated map illustrates Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1939. St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Italian Destroyer, RN Camicia Nera, in Albanian harbor, during Italian invasion. Italian troops marching along Albanian pier. Italian troops entering Albania on bicycles; in trucks;and L3 tankettes. President Franklin Roosevelt writing letters to Hitler and Mussolini, requesting them to respect independence of 33 European countries. Hitler addressing the Bundestag making fun of Roosevelt's letter, and delegates laughing and applauding. Goering and Goebels are seen present.
German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. German troops cross bridge. German artillery fires. German Ju 87 Stuka bomber aircraft in flight. Polish antiaircraft gunners on rooftop. street scenes in Warsaw. Poles run for cover in air raid. German Ju 88 aircraft bombing Warsaw. German soldier throwing hand grenade. Polish man driving team of horses flees bombing. Woman with new born baby. Polish victims of bombing laid out on ground. Americans and British citizens listening to radio broadcasts about the invasion. Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London. Prime Minister Chamberlain at his desk. City of Westminster and 10 Downing street with Bobbie on guard. British men building a Anderson shelter (bomb shelter) and covering it with dirt. British civilians being fitted with gas masks. Barrage balloons aloft. Newly recruited and mobilized British troops marching on a street in England with children on bicycles riding next to them.
June 10, 1940, American man, in San Francisco barbershop, reads newspaper report that Italy enters World War 2 as part of Axis and against France and Britain. Barber cuts the mans hair. They both look over at a portable radio on a counter and listen as President Roosevelt denounces Italy's action. American family with a husband, wife, and boy sit in a living room and listen to the radio while William L. Shirer broadcasts from Compiègne as France signs an armistice with Hitler. Views of railroad carriage in clearing surrounded by German troops in formation. Hitler strides with Hermann Goering, Admiral Erich Raeder, and others. Statue of Marshal Foch. French General Huntzinger, and his delegation escorted by German officers. Hitler and his delegation rise as the French delegation enters the rail car. Germans drape Nazi flag over the Glade of the Armistice monument (French: Clairière de l'Armistice). View of the Eiffel Tower. German troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysee in Paris. Hitler's railroad train entering Paris station. Hitler taking an early morning tour of Paris in an open car. Hitler and party admiring the Eiffel Tower during German invasion of France and occupation of France. View from Eiffel Tower of German troops marching along street. German rail guns in new positions on coast of France, pointed toward the English Channel and England. The German rail guns moving on tracks and firing. Animated map showing Allies overseas possessions. German residents in Brazil in largely German communities, with German schools, German school children, Nazi textbooks, and Nazi German newspapers in a town in Brazil. A Hermann Goering glider club operating in Brazil, as a glider is prepared for flight. View of Japanese residents in Brazil on behalf of Imperial Japan. SEDTA German airline planes with bomb racks operating in Ecuador, South America. Germans exercising at exclusive German clubs in Argentina, modeled after Hitler Youth. Narrator indicates these operations represented a "Fifth Column" ready to take over.
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