SS General Sepp Dietrich wheels the Schutz-Staffel and Wehrmacht into the attack. German soldiers camouflaged behind bushes. Heavy artillery in view. Black smoke rises up due to explosions. Camouflaged tanks move across the field. (World War II period).
A German war hero during World War II. German war hero comes back home on leave. Children stand on roadside to welcome him. Civilian women talk to the award winning German soldier. He meets with his mother and father. A young boy gives him flowers. He planes a board at a workbench. He is greeted by people in his home town.
Two U.S. Army officers are seen wearing white-banded caps, identifying them as "umpires" during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo." war games. They refer to a large map. One, a field grade officer, points in a direction. Scene shifts to U.S. Patton tanks parked in a field. Closeup of gunner atop a tank. Infantry riflemen lie prone at edge of a field. One fires his rifle. Scene changes to a soldier firing a Browning M1917 heavy belt-fed water-cooled machine gun. Infantrymen proceed along a tree-lined road. Others dig in to make defensive positions. Two soldiers dismantle a Stokes mortar to move it. Soldiers camouflage positions with netting and use pickaxes and other tools to "dig in."
Sign reads: "JOB, Tactical Briefing Cordon Bleu." Marshal Alphonse juin of France, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe, walks from staff car, followed by several other French officers. German officers assembled in a field. A civilian official converses with a French General in the field. Marshal Juin, relaxed with cigarette in his mouth, smiles and jokes with German soldiers.
Film begins showing livestock in stalls eating hay. Next, an auction is seen in progress. The auctioneer signals a final sale by striking a board with a wooden mallet. The new owner leads the animal away on a tether. Adolf Hitler is seen in uniform speaking at a podium, extolling German workers, against a background of waving wheat and farmers using scythes to harvest it. The farmers continue, placing the sheaves of wheat into wagons. Scene shifts fo grains of wheat being smoothed with a shovel. A Nazi guard in black uniform stands before a structure displaying a sign reading: Aldolf-Hitler-Roog. A car carrying Hitler enters a rural village area, where a woman steps in front of it to stop it. She speaks to a smiling Hitler as she points toward her newly built neighborhood of homes.
Animated map shows shows areas of Czechoslovakia constituting the Sudetenland. Scenes of numerous idle industrial plants in the region during period of economic trouble, high unemployment and the Great Depression. Some idle factories and businesses with chains and locks. Views of unemployed workers. More and more views of idle work places. Unhappy jobless persons. Scene shifts to hundreds of thousands of Czech people leaving their homes in the Sudetenland. Some are seen walking along a road carrying their belongings. Some use baby carriages and others use bicycles to carry their belongings. Some lead cattle on tethers. Others have carts. Views of weary refugee Czechs traveling and some at resting places. Many views of evacuees passing a Sudetenland border and moving across roads, fields, and in every imaginable manner as they leave and begin to seek new homes. Many are seen crying and weeping. Then suddenly, the film shifts to October 1, 1938, as German forces enter the Sudetenland and are happily cheered by German-speaking residents. Large formation of German troops marching along a street as spectators render Nazi salutes. A welcoming banner is stretched across the street. Many women wave and throw flowers at the rapidly passing German soldiers in vehicles. View from one of the German vehicles of the people crowding around them and cheering them. During a lull in traffic, a woman walks on the empty street (still surrounded by sidewalks full of spectators) and strews more flowers along the roadway. Crowds cheer with great enthusiasm as Adolf Hitler is seen riding in an open motorcar and entering the German occupied area at the Wildenau crossing on October 3, 1938. The car is mobbed by Sudeten Germans who shake hands with Hitler. A banner thanking Hitler for the occupation hangs across the roadway. Many views of Hitler saluting and waving to the enthusiastic population. At one point he stops the car and walks on the street, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, who also meets and greets people in the crowd, including some children to whom he gives candy. Hitler also greets a small girl and gives her some candy.
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