A fleet of warships seen off the coast of Austria-Hungary during World War I. Italian Navy flag waves on an Italian naval ship. Destroyer warships conceal troop ships behind smoke screens to prevent attack by German submarines. Italian sailors release depth charges targeting German submarines along the Austria-Hungary coast (or Austro-Hungarian coast). Underwater explosion boils to surface. Italian navy sailors aboard warships fire on coastal cities and villages of Austrian empire. View of many large naval guns in action, and bombing and destruction of Austro-Hungarian coastal buildings. Close up view of a French naval warship during rendezvous with British warships heading for the Dardanelles (also called Hellespont) for the Gallipoli Campaign or Dardanelles Campaign. Torpedo boat destroyers with the fleet sight a German submarine and begin firing deck guns and dropping depth charges. View of K Gun depth charge projectors shooting depth charge from French destroyer into ocean at a target U boat. British and French forces shelling Turkish defenses in the Dardanelles along the Gallipoli peninsula . Close-up views of French crews preparing guns, loading shells into naval guns, firing, and quickly reloading to repeat while the British forces are attempting to land troops for battle.
The opening scene depicts Heldengedenktag (Heroes' memorial day) in Berlin, March 13,1938. It shows the spartan interior of the Neue Wache (New Guard) World War One memorial on Unter den Linden. A cross stands above masses of flowers and a flame burns next to it. A sentry stands outside the building. View of the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great, nearby in the center of Unter den Linden. Camera pans back across the front of the New Guard building showing soldiers in formation on either side. Accompanied by two officers, Hermann Goering in uniform, including steel helmet, walks behind soldiers as they carry a large floral wreath across the square and into the New Guard building. View from inside as they enter and place the wreath. Closeup of the wreath shows a ribbon with words: "Adolf Hitler." The two officers render a Nazi salute and Goering salutes with his Luftwaffe Field Marshal's baton. Throughout the sequence,the war song, "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden," is softly played as a slow dirge in the background. Scene shifts completely to a hall at night, in Vienna, Austria, as Goering gives a speech referring to Adolf Hitler. View of St. Stephen's cathedral and scenes from several days prior, as crowd of German people cheer in Heldenplatz about the Anschluss (annexation of Austria by Germany). Animated map showing the territorial annexation. Slate displaying the slogan: "Ein Volk; Ein Reich; Ein Fuhrer" (One people; one nation; one leader.) (Note: Regarding the New Guard, in Berlin: Since 1993, it has been the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the victims of war and tyranny. The eternal flame was replaced by a Four- times-enlarged copy of the bronze sculpture, "Mother with Dead Son,"by Kaethe Kollwitz, on a slab of black granite in the center of the room underneath the oculus. Her original small bronze made in 1937, resides in the Kaethe Kollwitz Museum in Charlottenburg.)
Events that led to the beginning of World War I. Archduke of Austria, Franz Ferdinand and his wife descending steps in Sarajevo Austria. Dramatization of assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Newspaper headlines from The Sun: "Austrian Archduke Assassinated at Serajevo"; The Washington Post: "Austrian Ultimatum to Servia"; Pittsburgh Gazette Times "Kaiser Calls Up Army"; the Oakland Tribune: "War! Germans launch French Attack". Views of mobilization of German troops. German troops march as people cheer them on. A small boy dressed as a German soldier gives a salute. Troops march with a dachsund dog wearing a German Army helmet. A German woman buys a brooch with the face of Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor, to put on her dress before a parade including Wilhelm II. German citizens waving at German military parade. Infantry and cavalry units march past a large crowd in streets on the way to war.
During time of German occupation of Austria, or Anschluss, prior to World War II. A large crowd gathers on a street in Berlin, Germany. Buildings along the sides. Soldiers march in formation. People cheer. German flags on flag poles. An airplane lands. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler deplanes at Tempelhof Airport on his return from Vienna Austria. He rides in a motorcade through Berlin. People cheer as the motorcade moves along the streets. People salute and cheer. People stand in the balcony of a building and sing. Soldiers stand at attention. Hitler walks. People cheer. He stands in the balcony of a building and waves towards the large crowd gathered in the Wilhelmplatz.. German citizens hold a banner. They sing. Hitler stands in the balcony with German politician Hermann Wilhelm Göring. Hitler waves towards the crowd.
Hungarian civilians confront Soviet tanks during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in Budapest, Hungary. Crowds stand outside a burning building. Snipers shoot at Russians from behind doors and windows. Soviet tank firing in a park. Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest. Hungarians burning Soviet books and flags in defiance to Soviet forces. Hungarians burning Soviet flags. Hungarian refugees cross to the Austrian border. A refugee man holding a baby flees to Austria. Crying Hungarian women cross the border to Austria. White geese in Hungary. Russian tanks block the Hungarian border.
A royal wedding in Nancy, France. Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen enters the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers (66 Grande Rue, 54000 Nancy, France) in Nancy, the capital city of Lorraine, the ancestral land of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. At least 6 bridesmaids carry the 22 feet long train of Princess Regina’s wedding dress, made of tulle and brocade. Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, enters the church. Pope Pius XII conducts the wedding and gives his blessing to the couple. Princess Regina and Prince Otto von Habsburg stand after the marriage. People gathered to see the wedding. Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria and his mother former Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma in a procession. People run to meet the wedded couple. Princess Regina and Prince Otto von Habsburg wave to the crowd.
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