An American flag flies from an open third story window of an apartment building in Berlin, Germany. It is Winter, with ice visible on the street. An American officer, two French officers, and a civilian man, together with several ladies, stand on the sidewalk and look up at the American flag.
A civilian's personal protest in Munich, Germany, against noise from airplanes passing over his house. A man sits in a garden. He boils potato dumplings in a pot. A dog sits. German passenger airplane in flight. Man work on fire battery. He picks out a dumpling from pot, put it on battery and fire. A woman grates potatoes. Man works on apparatus.
Crowd of people on the street during German Revolution at conclusion of World War I. Soldiers carrying a howitzer and trying to position it in front of the Kaiser's palace (Also called Kaiser-Wilhelm Palais or Altes Palais). Group of soldiers installing a howitzer inside the palace with the help of ladder. Huge crowd of cheerful people celebrating the proclamation of a Republic Germany shortly after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Adolf Hitler arrives at the inauguration of 1000 km of completed autobahn near Breslau, Germany (present day Wrocław, Poland). He walks with other officers through a cheering crowd. He makes a speech from a podium. He stands in an open car and drives towards a ribbon to open road. Children give flowers to him. Soldiers stand holding banners. Hitler talks to German mother standing with children. Hitler salutes from the car as soldiers in trucks and other military vehicles move down the autobahn. Inspector General for German Roadways Fritz Todt also seen with Hitler in some of the shots and riding in the car.
German Navy officers, including Admirals Nipper and Scheer, stand on deck of a German warship, docked in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, during World War 1. Other German warships in background. Spectators standing some distance back, on the pier.
Film opens showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, seated in a carriage outside a building covered with scaffolding. He is wearing a fur-collared great coat and a plumed hat. Several flags are decorated poles behind the carriage. His uncle, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, steps into the carriage. British King Edward VI is wearing an overcoat and top hat. As Edward VI settles into his seat, an attendant cover both men with a carriage robe. As the carriage pulls away, an honor guard in formation at attention is seen in the background. The carriage carrying the Kaiser and the King is seen ahead of another one in which a woman is riding, accompanied by a man in top hat and a military officer in uniform. Local spectators stand at the side of road and on hills overlooking the roadway. A third carriage, drawn by a pair of white horses, carries a woman accompanied by a man in a top hat and a military officer in an elaborate plumed hat. A fourth carriage follows with a military officer and two statesmen in top hats. Film ends as horses pulling another carriage.
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