Activities of civilian workers and soldiers at the War Department and Navy Department buildings in Washington DC, early in World War 2. Exterior of a building. 'Navy Department' written on the building. A crowd enters the building. Buses and other vehicles drive past along a street. 'War Department' written on a building. Soldiers stand outside the building. Soldiers and marines near a truck. Soldiers in front of the Munitions Department. Women come out of the building. Armed guards stand outside a building.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice who had been sent to concentration camps. They place wreaths on the common grave of the people who were killed at Lidice. View of a lineup of captured Nazi SS soldiers and officers involved in the destruction of Lidice. Packed courtrooms at Nuremberg, Germany with German Nazi leadership present at Nuremberg Trial. Rubble and destroyed bombed-out Reichstag building in Berlin. Debris on the street. Past events show German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses people and talks about the destruction of other cities. Ruins of buildings from war. A wrecked bridge and burned out fields of a farm from World War 2.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. A sign board reads: 'UNRRA dispensary'. Men distribute food, blankets and other supplies to people. People eat food. Men work for the reconstruction of houses and other buildings. Trucks of supplies pass on the street. Dead bodies in the rubble. Arm and leg of a corpse. Men bury the dead bodies into graves. Disabled and crippled children are seen, having lost limbs. A boy who suffered a double leg amputation from war injury is pushed in a wheel chair by another child. Amputee children in a group walk with the help of crutches. Children in a group, all suffering various disabilities from war wounds including vision impairment, disfigurement, and blindness.
A munition and armament factory in Germany, early in World War II, as Germany pursued aggressive remilitarization. Interior of the war materiel factory. Men work to produce war equipment and ammunition. The forging and shaping of iron artillery pieces or gun barrel and forging tools and lathes at work. German Men monitor the production process in the arms factory. A stack of artillery shells.
Plans and preparations made by the Germans for the campaign in North Africa during World War II. Animated map shows the territories occupied by the Allies and the Axis powers during the war. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel along with his troops establishes new forward positions. The troops working to build a canal to transport water. A number of ships in harbor of Tobruk, Libya. German war supplies being loaded on rail cars. Camels crossing a railroad track. Rommel and Marshal Kesselring shown in discussion in North Africa. Animated map showing routes controlled by Axis forces. Scene shift to active battle footage with the British Eighth Army attacking German positions. Night battle with artillery fire. Aerial view of a formation of United States bomber aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over German positions on the ground in North Africa. Explosions on the ground with British tanks and soldiers advancing. A British soldier stands in front of signboards at a former German encampment captured by British forces. Low aerial view of convoy of German army trucks on a road, which narrator implies were captured by Allied forces. Destroyed German airplanes parked on an airfield. Captured German troops walking on a desert road, along with their General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma.
Soldiers place wreaths on a war memorial in Europe during World War II. The soldiers hold a wreath with 'SS Buby' written on it. They march. Flags of various countries flutter from poles next to the war memorial.
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