A refugee camp at the Czech-German border in Europe, around time of German occupation of Sudetenland. Refugee people including many Jewish refugees in front of tents at the refugee camp where they have fled from violence in Germany. Tent houses in a line. A man stands near a bicycle. A woman comes out of a tent house. Women talk in front of the tents. Tables and other articles kept on the ground. A bed outside a tent house. The women talk. Close up views of faces of some of the women refugees. Vegetation in the foreground. Newspaper headlines about Nazi violence against jews in Germany including Kristallnacht events.
A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron in Europe. A view of a city in Germany. People walk on a narrow street in Bitburg, Germany. A silhouette of Matador nose section in launch position. The tactical missile TM-61A on zero-length launcher. The TM-61A nose section in launch position. The launch of TM-61A in flight showing booster separation. The missile in flight. The missile taking terminal dive. A ground nuclear bomb blast. Smoke and fire rise due to the nuclear bomb blast.
Increased aircraft production in Italy, France and Germany. The nose of a large aircraft showing gun turret. The two machine guns are pointed down over pilots compartment. A formation of thirty French Caudron bi-planes in flight. An airfield in Germany. 'Berlin' written on top of one hangar. Formation of nine German Bucker Jungmann trainers taking off. Junker C-38 taking off. Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini and Italian military officials walk past a line of Breda and Savoia Marchetti on Italian airfield just outside Rome. Nine Italian aircraft stunting over Rome.
Invasion plans of the Axis power in the European Theater during World War 2. Film opens, ostensibly, showing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto speaking at a podium. (There is some question whether this is actually Yamamoto.) The U.S. Capitol and the Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, with marching Axis troops superimposed as if marching in conquest. Axis troops parade in Berlin, Germany. Animated diagram shows 'divide and rule' ambitions of the Axis powers. Animation showing radio signals emanating from radio towers with propaganda and "LIES". A German speaker delivers a propaganda message from a broadcast studio in Germany. Young women are seen gathering in groups. A woman in Italy receives an award for having many sons. Group of young men and women in Italy walking arm in arm which narrator describes as an effort to boost marriages and encourage having children. Cover of "Der Hammer" magazine in which German Dr. Willband Hentschel writes: "Round up a thousand German girls. Isolate them in a camp. Then let them be joined by a hundred German men. If a hundred such camps were set up, you would have 100,000 thoroughbred children in one stroke." Next scene shows a maternity ward with many (perhaps 30 or more) newborn infants laying on a large surface and being powdered, diapered, and swaddled by a team of German nurses. Narrator states: "Of course the children from this assembly line belong to the State, to be scientifically claimed for conquest."
Film opens with scenes of British Horse Guards on parade along street in London, England, watched by crowds on the sidewalks. Next, an elaborate coach, bearing an image of the Coat of Arms of the city of London, is seen arriving at the Guildhall (71 Basinghall St, London EC2V 7HH, United Kingdom). Footmen step to the coach door, where one places a step stool while the other takes the ceremonial mace for bewigged Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas B. Crosby, who steps from the coach, followed by London Sheriff, Sir Charles Augustin Hanson, and other city officials. Four uniformed trumpeters stand in front of the Guildhall and play a fanfare announcing arrival of a royal open coach carrying the monarchs of Great Britain and Germany. When it arrives, King George V quickly steps from the coach and assists Queen Mary as she alights. They are followed by the King's cousin, Emperor (Kaiser) Wilhelm II, of Germany, who steps from the coach. The Kaiser is dressed in Hussar uniform including fur Busby adorned with Totenkopf (Death Head) emblem. A flurry of activity ensues as the King and Queen and the Kaiser engage in greeting various officials and dignitaries. The Kaiser recognizes a woman, likely a relative, in the group and hurries to greet and kiss her.
Protest against Nazi Germany held in New York City in the weeks after the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany. A sign reads "German Exposition Christmas Market Now Open." Anti-Nazi protesters march carrying picket signs along a sidewalk in front of the exposition of German goods. One of the signs reads "Boycott Nazi Goods." Another sign reads "German Exposition Christmas Market Dec 16-24". American and Nazi flags fly from the building.
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