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.

Roger Karl
as Le colonel

Line Noro
as Frieda

Alexandre Mihalesco
as le tailleur

Jean Heuzé
as le capitaine autrichien

Sandra Milovanoff
as Madame Schleicher

André Valmy
as Ernst

Nicolas Amato
as le sous-lieutenant

Simone Bourday
as

Georges Fronval
as Adolf Hitler

Dalmaïs
as Engelbert Dollfuss