Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini standing together in an open car during a motorcade in Munich, in 1938. Civilian spectators render Nazi salutes as they pass. Next, British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, arriving for the Munich treaty conference, steps from a British Airways Lockheed Model 14 passenger plane. An honor guard of helmeted and white-gloved German soldiers stands at attention during his welcome. Adolf Hitler climbs stairs of Berghof together with Chamberlain and Hitler's interpretor, Paul Otto Schmidt, on September 15, 1938 for their conference. Crowds of Germans give Nazi salute and cheer as Hitler and Mussolini appear on a balcony. Prime Minister Chamberlain back from the conference, speaks to the crowd at Heston Aerodrome on 30 September 1938, saying, among other thing, "We regard the agreement signed last night, and the Anglo-German naval agreement as symbolic of the desires of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again." Damaged buildings and ruins of city. Mussolini giving an impassioned speech. Italian cavalry carrying out a charge in Ethiopia. Italian troops employing machine guns in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War circa 1936. Italian infantry charging across sand dunes. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie at the League of Nations podium. Nazi Swastika eagle statue. A formation of German troops, during the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria,in 1938). Hitler at a podium. People rendering Nazi salute in annexed city. At this point, the film transitions to 1950 as North Korean troops cross the 39th parallel and start the Korean War. A nighttime artillery barrage. North Korean troops firing a Browning M1917 machine gun and rifles. The feet of American soldiers are jumping out of foxholes as U.S.M26 Pershing tanks fire their guns from tilted positions below hills. A Pershing tank crosses a bridge back into South Korea, where a sign reads:"You are now crossing the 38th parallel, Co.B 728 MP." Scene shifts again, to President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers speech about Vietnam at a news conference on July 28, 1965, in which he states,among other things, "Three times in my lifetime...Americans have gone to far lands to fight for freedom..." as he explains U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the Vietnam War.
Comite Francais d'Assistance aux refugees in France after annexation of Austria by Germany prior to World War II. Relief being given to Austrian refugees in the form of cash. The refugees sign receipts. They wait in a lobby and show papers to officials of the committee. A meeting of the committee's council shows former commanding officer of the Republican Guards Colonel Duriex, President of the Committee Albert Levy, Managing Director of the Committee Gaston Kahn and the Secretary General Raymond Raoul Lambert. The committee discusses the problem of Jewish settlement in the world over a map.
Austrian refugees arrive at a center run by a relief committee in Amsterdam, Netherlands after the annexation of Austria by Germany prior to World War II. The refugees enter the Amsterdam Headquarters. Refugees eating at a table. Refugees showing Austrian passports to a porter. A refugee shows a Jewish passport with a 'J' on it. Secretary of the Committee, Miss Pereira, examines the passports. The refugees enter the relief headquarters.
German flying ace Walter "Nowi" Nowotny during a propaganda tour in Vienna, Austria during World War II. Viennese crowds greet and acclaim the German Luftwaffe officer, a native of Austria. Civilians cheer and take his autographs. Women present him with flowers. German officers accompany the flyer. Nowotny bids farewell to his family on completion of his leave. His family bids him farewell as he boards a Junkers JU-88 aircraft for the flight back to his duty base. German officers salute him. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
Nazi German officials attend wedding of Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein (Hans Georg Otto Hermann Fegelein) to Margarethe "Gretl" Braun, sister of Eva Braun, at the Mirabell Palace (Mirabellplatz 4, 5020 Salzburg, Austria) in Salzburg, Austria during World War II. Interiors of room in the Palace where civil ceremony is held. Bride and Groom and Nazi officials arrive at the wedding reception. Head of SS (Schutzstaffel) Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, and bride and groom seated. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addresses the group gathered. Hermann Fegelein, a favored pupil of Himmler, and Gretl Braun sign a marriage document. Martin Bormann looks on. Himmler and others sign the document. Himmler presents two silver cups to the bride and groom.
The Nazi German occupation of Austria in 1938, also called Anschluss. German helmets sitting on top of packages, rifles standing in pyramid. A woman pours coffee for Nazi German soldiers. Nazi soldiers play with Austrian children on a street. A soldier carries a boy into a horse. The boy smiles as he sits on the horse while the soldier holds him. A soldier shows a child the artillery gun. The child is holding a flag with the Nazi Swastika. Nazi and Austrian soldiers exchange small talks. German soldiers in the balcony of Gasthof Schroll (Ulricusstraße 13, 6322 Kirchbichl, Austria) in Kirchbichl, in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Cheering Austrian civilians sit on top of a German tank. Nazi troops and tanks parade along a street in Vienna. A band plays. Nazi officers review the parade. An Austrian crowd cheers for the parading troops.
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