Gerrnan Navy personnel look over a large number of marine mines piled up on the seashore in World War 2.. Several navy men walk into the surf where they retrieve a large mine floating ashore. A Navy explosives ordnance disposal technician removes parts from the mine. He and another Navy man examine them. Next, they deliberately detonate the mine creating a large blast, on the shore. A Navy Lieutenant is seen removing parts from another mine. Narrator states that he and his enlisted assistant have together destroyed 5,600 mines. His assistant wires up the mine for destruction. View of the mine exploding.
Adolf Hitler speaking passionately at an outdoor Nazi Rally. Massed flags fill the background. Next Hitler speaks at an indoor auditorium. He concludes with a Nazi salute. View of Swastika flag flying furiously in a brisk breeze. It continues to be seen as background to several slates announcing passage in the Reichstag of laws for the protection of purity of Aryan German blood and German honor, including prohibition on Jews marrying outside their race, division of Germans into 'Citizens' and 'Members' with Jews as members only, and prohibition on Jews flying the German flag.
Joseph Goebbels is finishing remarks, to the effect that we can still have a life, during a gathering of Nazi party officials, in a room somberly decorated as if commemorating a funeral (possibly that of Paul von Hindenburg, in 1934). Small pictures of Hindenburg and Hitler flank a large imposing painting of Hindenburg, over a mantle. All gathered join Goebbels in saluting and repeating "Heil" three times. Next, Adolf Hitler is seen, speaking and haranguing audiences in several different venues and circumstances. Politician Hitler, in civilian clothes, having been appointed Chancellor, stands with German President Paul von Hindenburg and Vice-Chancellor, Franz von Papen, in 1933. Hitler, in uniform, signs a document during a ceremony.
Opening scene shows many thousands of Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung) gathered in a Nazi rally at Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg. They all render the Nazi salute as the German National Anthem is played over loudspeakers. Complete change of scene shows a military parade including many World War I veterans. They march past Crown Prince Wilhelm, who is seen in close-up, saluting the marchers with a classic military salute. (Several standing with him render Nazi salutes.) The parade ends with the National Anthem and massed flags. Next, German President, Paul von Hindenburg, leads a contingent of officials, walking past assembled military units. He strolls into an area where he exchanges salutes with uniformed men who render the classic (not Nazi) hand salute. Hindenburg salutes some disabled veterans of World War I. Film shifts back again to the Nazi rally at Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Storm troopers.
Opening scene shows young men using hand tools in a classroom. An instructor grasps a file to demonstrate something to a boy student. Next, a youth is seen using a shaper to machine a piece of steel. Another young man tightens a coupling. Two men put their shoulders to a large locomotive wheel and roll it forward from underneath a steam locomotive. Two young men step out of a locomotive boiler, where they have been performing maintenance. They step down on a small ladder, closing the boiler door behind them. Closeup of a steam locomotive moving amidst smoke and steam. An engineer at the controls of the locomotive, explaining their operation to a young man in the cab, behind him. View from inside the moving locomotive of tracks ahead with other rolling stock and a building visible. A uniformed woman reaches up to the cab and receives some papers from the engineer. Next a uniformed woman is seen at the control panel for railroad signals. She moves some levers and rotates a hand crank. Simultaneously, a large railroad signal moves upward to an open position. Change of scene shows passengers boarding a passenger train from an outdoor platform. A uniformed railroad man takes a baby from a woman boarding and then walks along the platform to hand the child back to the mother, through the window of her train compartment. Final scene shows a smiling uniformed woman raising a signal paddle to release the train for movement.
Film begins showing senior army officers on a parade ground reviewing the German Grossdeutsland Regiment in formation. Closeups of some Regiment members. View from rear of the Regiment at attention, facing an altar topped with a German Iron Cross beneath which a German flag with Swastika is displayed. In the background, beyond the field, is a large church-like complex. Another view of the soldiers at attention and some closeups including one of the name "Grossdeutsland" embroidered on the sleeve of one soldier. Crews are seen in Three Panzer I tanks, each armed with two 7.92 mm MG13 machine guns. One tank has the name Rommel stenciled on its side. Another view of the altar with many spectators gathered around it. Scene shifts to the Commander of the Regiment, Major Otto Ernest Remer, receiving a unit award from Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. Closeup of the Unit award with some engraving on it.
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