During Nuremberg trial attorneys of Nazi leaders defend them. Nazi leaders Kaltenbrunner and others testify. Prosecution asks questions. Rosenberg, Kietel, Reader, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Goring. Walther Funk and Schirach make final statements.
Courtroom begins to empty as Nuremberg trials conclude. Military policeman in the Nuremberg Prison, just north of the Palace of Justice, checks prison cell of Hermann Goering (who later committed suicide). Guard checks cell of Joachim von Ribbentrop and Arthur Seyss Inquart in the prison in Nuremberg, where they were held during trial. Views of Military guards walking their posts, inside the main prison block corridors and outside the prison on roof top. Views of exterior windows of Nuremberg Prison. Guard on parapet and near towers of the prison. A crucifix statue of Christ with cross behind.
Views of what Eva Braun, Hitler's companion,calls,"our little house," in Munich suburbs. A patio with flowers. Views of the back garden. Her mother, Franziska, plays with Hitler's German Shepherd, Blondi, as the dog tries to bite a stream of water from a garden hose. Eva's father,Friedrich,"Fritz," in German Army uniform, relaxing in a chair at the back of the yard. View of the neighborhood. Eva playing ping pong. Eva, in a swim suit, playing with the garden hose and Blondi, the dog. Eva petting a boxer dog. Eva's father, Fritz, in uniform, playing with Blondi and a dachshund dog.A woman friend talking to Braun sisters, Eva and Gretl, sitting on a porch under an awning. A German officer sitting next to Franziska Braun, while her husband, Fritz, converses with a woman in background.The three Braun sisters, Eva, Ilse, and Gretl, conversing by the awning.
German Navy officers and sailors (including Walter Gerhold, who won the Knight's Cross for his one man mini-submarine [Neger] attack on the Polish Cruiser Dragon in July 1944) arrive by train and are greeted by affiliated Hitler youth in Berlin, during World War 2. Accompanied by a contingent of Navy-related Hitler youth boys, they board a bus and are waved at by a group of Hitler youth girls, as they depart. View inside the bus of a young Kriegsmarine (Navy) officer sitting with admiring Hitler youth in Navy-style uniforms. Next they are seen meeting the National German Youth Leader (Reichsjugendleiter) Artur Axmann, in uniform. One of the boys is then fitted out in flotation gear,helmet, and breathing apparatus of a Marder human torpedo operator. The boys gather around a Marder, one-man submarine. Closeup of some boys shows "11/184 Kiel,"on their hats, indicating the Youth unit to which they belong. The boy dressed in operators gear, now sits in the cockpit of the Marder submarine. A sailor shows him how to aim it. Those gathered around, tap on the plexiglass cockpit of the submarine. An experienced sailor tells the boys about using such a weapon against English ships and amuses them with personal stories.
The National Socialist Factory Cell organizations (NSBO) gathered in the Berlin Lustgarten, for a large protest march through the formerly Marxist areas east of Berlin. Men carry banners for various worker groups, including some German Government workers from the Defense Ministry. Many carry signs showing affilitation with the NSBO. Uniformed Berlin policemen are seen in the crowd. At start of the next sequence, a slate states that the day before the election, the entire Berlin Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers marched by Hermann Goring, Prussian Minister of the Interior. They are seen marching past Goering, who reviews them from a balcony.
Snow-covered hills at Berchtesgaden. Inside a building, Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union) with his General staff. Among others present are, General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; Colonel General Franz Halder and Colonel General Ludwig Beck. Animated map shows planned offensive against the Soviet Union and thence through the Caucauses and into Mideast oil fields. Further grand schemes are illustrated. Ocean supply lines needing to be choked off at Murmansk, Russia, and in the Mediterranean are diagrammed. German U-boat bases are shown on the map. View of a U-boat displaying skull and cross bones on conning tower. U-boat reinforced concrete pens. Map showing U-boat missions.
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