Opening scene, from World War 2, shows German sailors gathered around two naval officers on a dock. One is in a dark uniform with dark hat. The other is in working uniform and a white hat. He renders traditional hand salute. View from further away shows many sailors and a couple of officers crowded together on a wooden pier, and shifts to reveal sailors lined up formally on the deck of a submarine tied to the pier. A closeup from below shows officers saluting from the bridge of the first submarine. Sailors wave their hats from a pier next to a large docked ship, as the submarine sails away into the harbor. Change of scene shows submarine cruising on the surface passing a camera on another boat (unseen). Views of a destroyer with sun in background obscured by mist. Submarine seen submerging. Closeup of sailor using a signal lamp on a submarine. The submarine and a destroyer signalling each other with lamps. The submarine proceeding partially submerged. Scene changes to closeups of a sailor aboard a destroyer using an optical range finder. Next, sailors roll out hose on the deck of the destroyer. An officer and a sailor connect the hose to a seawater pump on the deck. Extreme closeup of the officer. Sailor on deck looks through binoculars at a submarine on the surface. Gun crew responds to battle station manning 20cm Vierling Flak 38 guns on the destroyer. Officer, with hat on backwards, looks through a gun sight. Multiple views of the gun crews firing twin Flak 38 antiaircraft guns. Two German Junkers Ju 88 bombers, flying low, pass the destroyer. Closeup of German naval officer aboard the destroyer. Two more bombers seen high overhead. Several German submarines seen cruising at high speed on the surface. Glimpse of a sailor using signal lamp. View from a destroyer looking astern at another one behind it, as they cruise at high speed, raising large wakes. New segment shows crew at work inside a submarine. Brief view of Captain looking through periscope. Crew members rapidly turning valve control wheels as boat prepares to dive. Another view of destroyers in formation raising huge wakes.
Activities of German rocket pioneer Reinhard Tilling. Opening scene shows a large postal rocket standing on its tail on a beach. A technician is adjusting something on its nose, as another man places mail into a compartment in the rocket body. Camera pans down from the top of the rocket to the fins at the bottom. A group of spectators watches from a sand bluff overlooking the beach. Two cameramen take up sheltered positions near the beach. The rocket is ignited and rises, only to fall back sideways onto the beach. Change of scene shows a group of persons with a Tilling rocket in marsh grass near a lake. Next, Reinhard Tilling is seen surrounded by spectators and some cameramen, as he explains his rocket, which is being held nose down by others. Tilling opens and displays the rocket's gliding wings.
German Reichsmarschall (Marshal of the Empire) Hermann Goering visits a coal mine during World War 2. Interior of mine. Goering with coal miners. Coal carried on conveyer belts. Goering inspects objects of various kinds laid out in boxes. He goes up the steps of a house and visits a working family. As he comes out, he talks to children and picks up a baby. He is surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd of local citizens. Goering gets into an open car, and standing, salutes the crowd, who return his salute. Children try to run after his car, as it pulls away.
German Air Force maintains sharp lookout on German-French border during World War II. German soldiers look through binoculars. German aircraft parked under camouflage. (A small dog stands by aircraft.). German gun crew rotates a camouflaged antiaircraft gun and elevates its barrel. Views of downed French aircraft in woods. Germans spraying water on the wreckage.
Humorous German animated cartoon about sledding (sleigh riding). A sign identifies a sled run for adults only. Several groups of older persons go sledding on it. Then a boy on stilts and another boy sneak past the attendant, who thinks one is an adult. The boys are discovered and chased by the attendant. They fall into a snow bank. The boys stretch a rope across the sled run and upset some old folks who land in the snow. They repeat this trick several times, until they try it on the attendant who pulls them along with him and cuts their rope so they fly off into some trees, where the folks they tricked stand about and look at them.
A German officer hands bouquet of flowers to crewman on a Junkers Ju- 52 airplane displaying registration: D-2600 (Hitler's personal aircraft). German Chancellor Adolf Hitler boards the aircraft with German officers. Interior of aircraft displays flowers and other birthday decorations commemorating the birthday or founding anniversary of the Sturmabteilung (SA). German officers and Hitler seated in the airplane. Closeup of Hitler's personal pilot, Johannes 'Hans' Peter Baur, in uniform of Colonel, Schutzstaffel (SS). Hans Baur wears a service cap displaying the Totenkopf (death head) insignia. Views of ground as seen from the airplane in flight. View of passengers in the cabin. Hitler is quietly reading a book. view from cabin window of aircraft's left wing, displaying registration number. As part of the SA birthday celebrations, Hitler and German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Chief Hermann Goring inspect German Air Force aircraft and personnel at an airfield. Hitler greets many of the German officers and airmen. Hitler's airplane is next seen preparing for departure, with engines running, " Lufthansa, " Immelmann II " is painted on its side. It flies a Nazi flag. Military personnel load cargoes into the belly of the aircraft. An officer gives bouquet to another officer aboard the plane. Hitler and Goering complete their inspection of the Air unit. Closeups of Hitler and Goering mingling with the fliers and inspecting Heinkel He-51 bi-wing pursuit airplanes. Scene shifts to destination where Hitler talks to a small girl besides his car. The child holds a small bouquet of flowers for presentation to him. But when Hitler reaches for it, the child changes her mind and holds it back, refusing to give it to the Fuhrer.
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