German civilians rush towards a road to catch a glimpse of the arrival of German chancellor Adolf Hitler in western Germany. Germans give the Nazi salute upon the arrival of Adolf Hitler’s car. Hitler gives a Nazi salute and a military salute while standing in his Mercedes-Benz W31 type G4 staff/command car with the plate number “WH 32291”. Hitler meets Nazi military officials. Hitler and Nazi military officials leaning on fence together while civilian Germans look on. Hitler inspects a bunker, which is located in the Siegfried Line defense fortification. Artillery shell is lifted by a crane. Front page of the Volkischer Beobachter newspaper announcing the visit of Adolf Hitler in the Siegfried Line (known as the “Westwall” in Germany) with headline, "Mein Führer! Der Weftwall fteht und wird baltern, fomme, was da wolle!" Rough translation, "My Leader! The WestWall is standing and will remain, come what may!"
Rows of “Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers found in forest, meadow and farmland along the “Siegfried Line” fortification along western Germany before World War 2. Woman farmers till the soil in farmland near “Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers. Two farmers till the soil on a farm. A farmer leads his oxen to till the land in farm with “Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers. Rows of “Toblerone”-shaped “Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers in between a farm. A shepherd tends to his sheep in meadow with “Dragon’s teeth” anti-tank barriers.
Opening scene shows policemen keeping things calm in a group of men gathered outside the Ford River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Union organizers of the United Auto Workers (UAW) are passing out newspapers, or Union flyers of some kind. Policemen circulate among the men as this is happening. At time 00:37 a man is seen talking with UAW President, R.J. Thomas (Roland Jay Thomas). More scenes of men mingling. Policemen seen now include one on horseback. At time 00:52, R.J. Thomas is talking with his organizers again. Scene shifts to UAW women representatives passing out the papers to workers carrying lunch boxes. The women wear hats reading "Aux No 5." Views of policeman directing heavy traffic passing the Ford plant. A blind man with a cane is escorted across the street. Workers are lined up for buses.
A bus rides up and parks in front of a building in a suburban campus. Men begin to exit the bus and walk toward the camera. The scene is repeated again and this time a group of young men and women step from the bus and walk along a pathway toward the building entrance (unseen). View shifts to inside the entrance hallway of the building, where doors are open to what seem like classrooms. Along the wall is a time clock and cards for persons. A succession of young men take their cards and "punch in" at the time clock, followed by several young women who do likewise.
Film opens showing a woman sitting at a kitchen table along with several children, eating dinner. Abrupt change of scene shows many men, women, and children exiting the Martha-Mary Chapel in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan. Small boys seen are in short pants, and somewhat older boys wear Knickers (Kickerbockers). It is a summer-like day and seems to be the end of a church service. After momentary interruption, the camera pans over the chapel structure. Next, little girls and boys are shown leaving the chapel. Many of them run, happily. They are followed by grownups who could be Sunday School teachers, or the like. They linger and converse at the front of the chapel. Soon older children begin leaving the chapel.
German troop movement to Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia just before World War II. Mercedes Benz heavy trucks are parked on air field as lines of German Wehrmacht soldiers stand at attention on the other side of the field. A German officer reads instruction from a booklet. Wehrmacht troops marching on the field, toward aircraft. Two Junkers Ju-52 aircraft parked in airfield. A German officer salutes to a flight crew, who then board an aircraft. German soldiers marching to the airplanes. German soldiers climb aboard transport plane. A soldier hands over rifles to his comrade inside the aircraft. Nazi soldiers take their bicycle and belongings with them to the aircraft. German soldiers push a motorcycle into a transport plane. Crewman closes the door of the aircraft after the last soldier boards the plane. Junkers Ju-52 aircraft taxi and takes off from airfield.
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