The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
as Le colonel
as Frieda
as le tailleur
as le capitaine autrichien
as Madame Schleicher
as Ernst
as le sous-lieutenant
as Adolf Hitler
as Engelbert Dollfuss
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
as Ernst Roehm
as General Kurt von Schleicher
as Adolf Hitler jeune
