Film depicts the conditions which existed during post-World War II blockade of Berlin and final lifting of blockade. U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft participating in Berlin Airlift taxis on runway. Flour being unloaded from C-54. German laborers load coal in cars. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley stands before a map of Berlin and speaks about final lifting of Berlin blockade. German children playing on sidewalks in Berlin. After blockade is lifted, view of the first railroad train entering east Berlin at Berlin-Charlottenburg railroad station, on May 12, 1949. Crowded station scene for the first train. Passengers disembark at station. General Howley speaks about Berlin blockade. Children playing on streets of Berlin. A carnival amusement ride spinning in Berlin, amid bomb damaged buildings behind it.
Celebrations during 55th Birthday of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler on 20th April, 1944 during World War II. A German Eagle statue on a base with inscription to the effect that our walls may be broken but not our hearts. A youth raising a Nazi flag on top of a building. People and troops march through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. People set up Nazi flags amidst rubble, and a woman sets up a sign reading that our walls may be broken but not our hearts. Demolished building in the background. People buy newspapers at a newsstand.
Snow-covered hills at Berchtesgaden. Inside a building, Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union) with his General staff. Among others present are, General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; Colonel General Franz Halder and Colonel General Ludwig Beck. Animated map shows planned offensive against the Soviet Union and thence through the Caucauses and into Mideast oil fields. Further grand schemes are illustrated. Ocean supply lines needing to be choked off at Murmansk, Russia, and in the Mediterranean are diagrammed. German U-boat bases are shown on the map. View of a U-boat displaying skull and cross bones on conning tower. U-boat reinforced concrete pens. Map showing U-boat missions.
View of the State Opera building on Unter den Linden, in Berlin, in 1941, being reconstructed by order of Adolf Hitler, after being bombed in April, 1941, during World War 2. (He ordered the reconstruction in spite of wartime, to bolster German morale at the time.) Trams with equipment and supplies are seen in front of the building. Scene switches to inside, where crystal chandeliers are seen. Camera focuses on two artisans who are restoring gold decoration encircling interior columns. Next, numerous persons are seen at work at various restoration tasks in a section of the building. In another area, dressmakers are busy working on costumes. A woman is seen placing costume helmets on a rack. Various artisans work on statuary and other features of the building and contents. Brief glimpse of restorers examining a painted mural on the floor. Designers working with architectural drawings and models of the Opera house.
Spectators are gathered on the steps at the left side of the Propyläen in Königsplatz, Munich. Quartermaster General (Generalquartiermeister) Erich Ludendorff, and several army officers walk forward, from the nearby doorway. Next, a procession of Sturm Abteilung (Storm troopers) is seen, wearing Nazi armbands. They parade in the streets of Munich, carrying Nazi flags. Several thousand assemble in Königsplatz. Next, General Ludendorff is seen on the steps of the Glyptothek (in Königsplatz) surrounded by civilians.
Germans demonstrate in Berlin, at the Reichtag and in the Lustgarten, against the Treaty of Versailles, after World War 1. A crowd of Germans demonstrating in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, The Bismark memorial and the Monument of Victory are clearly visible. As the camera pans, men raise their hats in unison (presumably prompted by the cameramen). One person holds a poster reading "98.Abt." (referring to 98th Abteilung, the German Army 98th Division). Others hold banners that are pointed away from the camera. Demonstrators also fill the Lustgarten. Men sit on a lamp post above street sign reading "Lustgarten."
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