LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship in flight. Parachutist seen descending beneath the airship. Dr. Hugo Eckener exits from LZ-127 after landing. A technician sets a large microphone in place on a tripod. Hugo Eckener is welcomed by military officials and other dignitaries. Hugo Eckener at exit door of LZ-127. Spectators stand beside the cabin of the airship. Soldiers and a photographer stand near the rear gondola of LZ-127. A single large propeller is seen on the gondola.
Events following Sixth Nazi Party Congress meeting in Nuremberg in 1934. A torchlight SA (Sturmabteilung) parade in Nuremberg shows men marching at night. SA Chief of Staff Viktor Lutze addresses his men. (From a U.S. government-edited version of production "Triumph of the Will" with World War 2 period English audio narration and commentary added.)
Events at a meeting of Sixth Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg in 1934. Fuhrer Adolf Hitler stands in his open top car and gives a Nazi salute to his troops. The troops pass in review on street. Hermann Goering stands next to Hitler's car. Various German officers give Nazi salutes. Flag bearers head the troops. Heinrich Himmler heads the SS (Schutzstaffel) troops. Treasurer of NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's Party) stands among other officers. (From a U.S. government-edited version of production "Triumph of the Will" with World War 2 period English audio narration and commentary added.)
British conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Mavis C.Tate,and another MP, sitting in an American jeep with top up, speak with a British officer. They and several other jeeps, carrying visiting British MPs proceed into the liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. An effigy of a prisoner is seen illustrating form of punishment meted out to inmates. The visiting party includes: Mrs. Tate; Sir Graham White; Sir Henry James; Lord Stanhope; Lord Addison; Sir Archibald Southby; Lieutenant Colonel Wickham; Ness Edward; M. Silverman; and Tom Driberg. Accompanied by U.S. and British officers, they walk about among the camp buildings, where cleanup is underway. A large mass of camp debris is being burned. Freed inmates are seen throughout the camp. Some of them speak with the MPs and explain things to them. Mrs. Tate converses with former prisoners who show their tatooed identification numbers. (World War II period).
Three children, former concentration camp prisoners, stand at barbed wire of Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its liberation from Nazi German forces. One of the boys is on crutches. Several freed prisoners huddle over a cooking fire in the camp yard. Inside a building, Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, and other members of British Parliament, pose with emaciated former prisoners. They speak with the liberated prisoners who lie, covered with blankets, on mats on the floor. Mrs. Tate walks out of the camp with a group of American Army officers. (World War II period).
U.S. troops of the 45th Division, 157th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, I Company, entering the area of Dachau concentration camp, in the final days of World War 2. They are seen escorting German prisoners of war, with their hands raised, along a railroad siding. U.S. troops in front of a railroad train of boxcars. A dead German soldier, face down on the ground. The U.S. troops follow the railroad track into area of buildings, and run to take cover due to incoming fire. One fires a browning automatic rifle from an elevated walkway. Other American soldiers hunker down behind the walkway wall. U.S. Army soldier fires rifle while standing on a roadway. Surrendering German soldier, carrying a white flag, is attacked by a concentration camp inmate, as several other liberated inmates and U.S. Army soldiers stand nearby, watching. (Note: Opening cameraman slate states date as 04-27-1945, but historical records indicate this took place on 04-29-1945.)
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