Agricultural show in Bellahoj, Denmark. Danish flag at mast. Danish people look at exhibit. Danish people gather for agricultural show. Several exhibits being displayed at the show. Participants of the show come with their domestic animals. Domestic animals include horses, cows and hens.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun's family in Denmark. Views of interesting buildings in Copenhagen, including the Danish Stock Exchange (Børsgade 1, 1217 København K). Family members and other visitors in a sightseeing boat cruising the canal. A small motorboat ahead of them flies a Danish flag. Scenes at local fish market. A woman prepares to filet a flounder fish.
Sea-elephants and penguins in Copenhagen, Denmark. The sea-elephants protest in roar as penguins jump into pool.
Sikorsky S-36 amphibious aircraft parked at beach in Maine. Crowd surrounds aircraft named "Dawn". Aircraft in flight over Atlantic Ocean after take off from beach. Sikorsky S-36 amphibian aircraft the "Dawn" then seen returning and landing on water back again at Old Orchard after shortened 500 mile flight due to weather. Men on beach direct aircraft. Female pilot Frances Wilson Grayson (niece of President Woodrow Wilson) exits aircraft after bad weather forces the aviatrix to abandon her third attempt to fly to Denmark. Close up view of Frances Grayson. (Grayson was flying together with pilot Wilmer Stultz and navigator Brice Goldsborough.)
Otto Hillig and Holger Hoiriis leave on a flight to Denmark in Liberty plane from Mineola, New York. Hillig and Hoiriis stand near Liberty plane. "Bellanca" written on the plane. A man waves. They are cheered by friends of the upstate New York photographer. The plane takes off.
Adolf Hitler addressing the Reichstag, meeting in the Kroll Opera House makes fun of an April 1939, letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hitler reads a list of countries that FDR asked him not to invade. As he drones on through the extensive list, it becomes comical and the Reichstag member burst out in laughter. Next heavy guns are seen firing and formations of German Junkers JU-52 airplanes flying overhead as narrator cites September 1st 1939 and the German invasion of Poland as start of World War 2. Motorized German forces, and infantry are seen rushing across the landscape. German 17 cm Kanone 18 guns are seen firing. Formations of German JU 87 Stuka dive bombers in flight and Heinkel He 111 bombers dropping bombs on Poland. Bombs exploding and devastation on the ground with buildings burning and collapsing. Aerial view of Polish city being bombed. Huge number of disarmed Polish Army prisoners of war walking along roads. German troops marching into Copenhagen, Denmark in 1940