Malte's sister Barbel is shown defending her father and insisting that he could not have known the full truth about Auschwitz, that he tried to resist or subvert the Nazi's most inhumane policies, and that the victims of Auschwitz should be thought of as casualties of war. Malte also includes testimony from a member of a Jewish family in Slovakia whose house was expropriated by the Nazis in the early 1940s.
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un sous-marin allemand coule un navire près des côtes canadiennes. Aussitôt, il tente un repli stratégique vers la baie d'Hudson mais il est repéré et bombardé. Six marins allemands survivants se retrouvent seuls sur le gigantesque territoire canadien. Ils doivent traverser le pays, rejoindre les États-Unis encore neutres, et espérer ainsi s'échapper du continent pour retourner en Allemagne.
Chorus girls Irene and Joan are discussing the war in their dressing room. Joan flicks through a copy of Picture Post with "Your Country Needs You" on the cover, and says she doesn't think she'd be cut out for war work and doesn't like being made to feel guilty about not volunteering. Irene says she has been thinking about it. As they leave by the stage door, a woman faints on the pavement in front of them. A newspaper seller says that the woman has just finished a 12 hour shift in a munitions factory and is exhausted, and that such long hours are necessary because of the shortage of workers.
The film opens with a description of the Black Tom explosion of a munitions supply located in Jersey City on the Hudson River. The explosion, which occurred during World War I was an act of sabotage by German agents.