German Reichsmarschall (Marshal of the Empire) Hermann Goering visits a coal mine during World War 2. Interior of mine. Goering with coal miners. Coal carried on conveyer belts. Goering inspects objects of various kinds laid out in boxes. He goes up the steps of a house and visits a working family. As he comes out, he talks to children and picks up a baby. He is surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd of local citizens. Goering gets into an open car, and standing, salutes the crowd, who return his salute. Children try to run after his car, as it pulls away.
German notables and wealthy people gather upon arrival before the start of horse races at the Berlin-Grunewald race track. All fashionably dressed, men and women socialize. Several women converse with Kaiser Wilhelm II, who is in military uniform and Pickelhaube (pointed helmet). View of the racetrack, with spectators watching as horses race past. Closeup of photographers taking pictures as horses jump a barrier on the course. Change of scene shows a Zeppelin aloft and a large inflated airship being moved by a number of men, holding it down. Next, several racing cars are seen as they pass the camera, singly. Finally, carriages are seen with elegantly dressed occupants moving slowly past one another in a promenade at a park. Some of their horse-drawn carriages are bedecked in flowers. Other than ladies, the participants appear to be young military officers, including many lining the pathway on both sides.
Burning buildings in a German town during World War II. A burning German town at night. Fire burning at night. A burning building. A building engulfed in flames.
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp liberation during World War II. Nazi German SS Guards (German Guards) place dead bodies in trucks. A vehicle drives past the dead bodies. The bodies are thrown into mass graves. German women guards bury the dead. Heaps of bodies being lifted by bulldozers and put in mass graves. The affidavit by United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg.
Russians leaving through the gate of a liberated Nazi prison labor camp. U.S. military guards at the prison gate. Former prison laborers awaiting return to their native countries. Russian girls talking with laborers. A straight road just outside the camp. People walk on the road. Former prisoners gathered in a group talking and smiling. Two ladies hold a man's hands and bring him forward. A man with a cap stands behind them. (World War II period).
A German Messerschmitt Bf 109E raising dust as it takes off from a dirt and grass field. Formation of German Junkers JU-88 flying in formation overhead. Closeup from above of a Ju-88. Pilot at the controls. Copilot on lookout points at attacking British Spitfire. (Likely, this is a mock attack staged for propaganda movie, with a captured Spitfire, displaying early paint scheme of black/white belly.) The film continues with a Messerschmitt Bf 109 engaging the Spitfire in a dog fight, that ends with the latter falling in a trail of smoke. (Interestingly, the last view of falling Spitfire shows empennage of the camera plane, which appears to be a rare Arado Ar.240.) Next, a spitfire is seen sitting upright on the ground, with black smoke billowing from its center. Finally, Dornier Do-17 aircraft are seen dropping bombs amid some flak clouds. (Note: disparate scenes have been melded together and edited in the making of this film.)
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