Film opens showing politician Adolf Hitler in civilian clothes, giving empassioned radio broadcast speech. Hitler in uniform speaking in different venues. In one he speaks to a huge crowd assembled outdoors. Adolf Hitler at ceremony for his appointment as Chancellor, is seen standing with German President Paul von Hindenburg and Vice-Chancellor, Franz von Papen, on January 30, 1933. Hitler speaking forcefully and animated, haranguing a crowd. Hitler, in uniform, speaking of the revolution and first year of the new German freedom to an audience of German officials including Joseph Goebbels in front row. He concludes by rendering the Nazi salute. (Note: an unrelated scene of Palestine, in the middle of the film sequence, shows momentary glimpse of a Muslim man far in the distance, praying on a parapet.)
A German Luftwaffe military aircraft parked in front of a weather station in Germany in the late 1930s. A German man releases weather balloon at the weather station. The weather balloon flies away. A German Aeronautical scientist using telescopes to watch weather balloon’s flight. Scientists setting up equipment in garden. A scientist uses a camera to record a propeller running on high speed. A materials scientist pulls out a cross from the ground.
View from underneath a moving railroad train. Railway station in Berlin, Germany in early 1930s. Commuters empty out of railroad train and climb steps to street. Sign reads: " Untergrundbahn". Huge reciprocating machines running in an industrial plant. Men and women equestrians riding horses in a park.
Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg Germany. Nazi war leaders with earphones sit in the prisoner's dock. Voice of Justice William Norman Birkket is heard in background accounting historical events in the second half of the 1930s as Nazi power grew. View of prisoner's dock, prosecutors and judges sitting in tribunal. Justice Birkket speaks on issues like the Violation of defense law by Hitler, German economy for war, rebuilding of German Armed forces, violations of the Treaty of Versailles, and construction of new submarine arms.
Rocket propulsion history in Germany. Men gather around a liquid oxygen tank during fueling of rocket car driven by Max Valier. He drives his white car along an airport ramp, past a twin engine high-wing monoplane. In the final scene, from April 1930, Valier is shown smiling as he sits in his liquid rocket propelled car, surrounded by spectators.
Exterior night time shot of U.S Capitol dome in late 1930s. Sign 'Division of Communications and Records' above a State Department office door. Officer at desk. Men working in office and typing. Door sign 'Secretary of Department of State'. Cordell Hull at desk. Hull speaking. He reads a statement urging peace and security rather than armed conflict in Europe. State Department workers typing out memos and interpreting coded dispatches. A close up of a page decoding a secret coded dispatch. Newspaper headlines indicate orders dispatched for American ambassador to return from Germany (shortly before outbreak of World War 2). Sign for 'Carlton Hotel' on the hotel building. Secretary Hull seated in his office as he studies reports. Pictures of Hull in various newspapers of different languages. Seal of the U.S. on an entrance of a U.S. Embassy. A door closing with sign "American Embassy" on it.
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