CHAPTER 1

• "In our first film, we saw that this is a war btween a slave world and a free world."
• Nazi ambitions go back a long way - "1914" Kaiser Wilhelm - 1934 Adolf Hitler
• middle ages - barbarian hordes of Genghis Khan - Hitler also wanted to conquer the world
• Nazi geopoliticians like Carl Hoefler, card files on every home town
• map - world 25% land - includes 2 areas: (1) western hemisphere, (2) world island with 2/3 land and 7/8 population, including Heartland of Europ and Asia
• "That was the dream in Hitler's mind as he stood at Nuremberg."
• map - Manchuria, Ethiopia
• Hitler quote - "Demoralize the enemy from within" to soften up the enemy before invasion
• subversive fascists like Mosely in England,

CHAPTER 2 - Rioting Crowds

• Madison Sqaure Garden with Fritz Kuhn of German-American Bund
• "That was the softening up process outside Germany. But inside Germany, it was a different story. Here in utmost secrecy the hardening up process."
• German army limited to 100,000 by Versailles Treaty
• Luftwaffe built, goosestep was anold tradition but "everything else was new" including dive bombers and tanks
• Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland and built the Siegfried Line of 22,000 fortified positions
• "It was time to start the conquest of Eastern Europe"
• March 12, 1938 - German armies marched over the Austrian border
• "Bastions of Bohemia" necessary to control, according to Bismarck
• Hitler wanted the Skoda Works

CHAPTER 3 - The Speech

• The Sudetenland was the key for Hitler
• "Admiral Chester Nimitz" and other leaders opposed Hitler's claim to Sudetenland
• Conrad Heinlein was the Nazi leader in Sudetenland
• no concerted action from League
• Munich Conference - Sept. 29 pact - Chamberlain and Daladier gave up the Sudetenland
• Chamberlain newsreel announcement - "here is the paper with his name and mine" - sign: "Peace in Our Time"
• map - Sudetenland left Czech defenseless
• map - Austria and Czech were gone and Poland was next
• "But what about the Russians?"
• Aug. 21, 1939 treaty of friendship between Russia and Germany
• map - Danzig at the head of Poland's corridor to the sea - both demanded by Hitler
• map of Nazi plan - except for Carpathians, most of Poland is flat - Vistua is Poland's Miss. River but drought and river was low - Nazi plan was a pincer movement

CHAPTER 4 - On the Battlefield

• 70 German divisions vs 30 Poland divisions, incl horse cavalry
• 6000 planes of Luftwafe, 5000 tanks
• "The fire that had begun in Manchuria . . . would now blaze around the world"
• Sept. 1 - "Without warning, the German Wehrmacht rolled across the border."
• German Luftwaffe destroyed Polish airplanes on ground and in the sky
• Stuka dive bomber points down and dives [same film used in 1940 Ramparts We Watch]
• new type of storm boat used to cross the Vistula
• map - German 10th army advanced in south, surrounded Verbon - raced through gap toward Warsaw - west armies surrounded and cut off and forced to surrender
• "Warsaw still resisted" led by mayor Strazinsky to the song "the Polonaisse"
• great 240mm howitzers raced over autobohn from western front to Warsaw and began bombardment for 20 days
• Sept. 27 was the capitulation of Warsaw
• map - last resistance on island west of Danzig, under heavy naval guns - but surrendered Oct. 1
• Polish prisoners marched to Nazi camps
• collaborationist Poles pointed out Polish neighbors for execution - women weep
• "These things the Poles can never forget"
• "Poland was completely destroyed"
• Why did Hitler stop and not continuing drive to East? He did not want a two-front war
• France and Britain mobilized - British planes bombed Kiel Canal
• not the British government but the British people declared war
• Churchill speech - "what tragedies, what horrors, what crimes"
• Marshall quote - utter defeat
• V- sign ends the film