Slave laborers digging during the construction of the Atlantic Wall in World War II. German engineers oversee the construction. Men working around a large gun turret. Nazi German fortifications, bunkers, and artillery posts along coasts facing the Atlantic Ocean in Europe. The 380 mm gun at the Todt Battery near Cape Gris-Nez, Pas de Calais, France. 40.6 cm SK C/34 gun “Battery Lindemann” (German unit MKB 6 / MAA 244) as part of the Dover Strait coastal guns. German emplacements and troops marching along Normandy in France. A German soldier uses binoculars to watch the English Channel. Adolf Hitler and a Nazi German general. Adolf Hitler greets Benito Mussolini as the latter exits a plane in Vichy France. Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and General George C. Marshall at the Tehran Conference in 1943 during World War 2. Armies from various European countries march and prepare themselves for war against Germany. Supreme Commander General Eisenhower and other Allied generals during a meeting. Fleet of ships in sea ready to land in Normandy on D-Day. Navy and coastal command aircraft drop bombs on Nazi German submarines. Anti-aircraft guns fire at Nazi bombers. Docks damaged by German bombing receive aid from Allied countries. Cranes and hooks lower relief supplies, medicines and warfare material at dock. Warships loaded with artillery and warplanes lowered in ships by hoists. A locomotive train is being lowered from a ship. A military band plays music in a dock. Soldiers move towards the ships. British and Royal Canadian and Australian bombers at their base take off for bombing on Nazi bases at night. A soldier directs a bomber taxiing in runway. Aerial views of British bomber aircraft bombing targets in Germany at night, with immense explosions.
Anchor being raised on an allied military ship. Ships at sea. Floating piers of concrete and steel being towed across channel. Barrage balloons over ships. Allied Troops on landing craft. Wake of a Coast Guard cutter. Allied bombers in the air heading toward targets in France. Soldiers seated and standing on landing craft, and quietly contemplating the task ahead. Antiaircraft guns firing at German warplane. German warplane destroyed and parachuted pilot descending. Ships in convoy heading for coast of France. Views of religious services being led by chaplains on the decks of Allied ships, before the D-Day invasion of France in the Normandy region.
Sanitation workers are seen at work on the streets of Paris. Shopkeeper carries large can of garbage to a trash collection truck on the street. Trash collectors pose behind their truck. Garbage truck drives along the Champs Elysee, with crew riding on back door. They are escorted by Paris policemen on bicycles. They pick up more trash at a stop, where they pause, as police wave people past them. The Arc de Triomphe can be seen in background.
Representatives of the 15 nations comprising NATO are seen in a lobby setting. One woman makes an inquiry at a Security desk. Another distributes a publication into boxes, where each receives it in a different translation. Glimpse of a representatives seated on a couch being interviewed and televised. Scene inside a photo lab where new prints are hung to dry. A man reviewing film footage of the NATO Secretary General Dirk Stikker. Next, he is seen at his desk, reviewing documents. (Narrator notes his dual roles as Head of the International staff and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council.) He hands a document to a woman and leaves his office. Change of scene shows two farmers with machinery in a wheat field having their lunch with a young boy. A formation of six British de Havilland Sea Vixen twin boom jet fighter planes passes overhead.
The Gelerie des Glaces in the castle of Versailles during the Paris Peace Conference. The members of delegations of various participating nations while the peace conference undergoing.
Depicts the signing of Franco-Nazi Peace Pact (Franco-German Declaration) in Paris. A steam engine train arrives at a railway station in Paris. Joachim Von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister moves out of the train. French Foreign Minister George Bonett and other officials welcome him. The two ministers and other officials at Elysee Palace for signing the Non Aggression Treaty. Ribbentrop and Bonett sign the treaty as a step towards European peace. Some ambient room noise in background.
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