Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world.
Mikhail Romm
Marlene Dietrich
Joseph Goebbels
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Oswald Mosley
Martin Bormann
Willy Brandt
Aristide Briand
Cab Calloway
Georges Clemenceau
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Hermann Göring
Rudolf Hess
Heinrich Himmler
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
King Alfonso XIII of Spain
King George V of the United Kingdom
King Gustaf V
King Haakon VII
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Albert Lebrun
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
George Lincoln Rockwell
Ernst Röhm
Marika Rökk
Joseph Stalin
Julius Streicher
Josef Thorak
Ernst Thälmann
Jūkichi Uno
Paul von Hindenburg