- The film presents recordings made by the researcher Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, who belonged to the NSDAP and SS, as leader of an expedition to the Amazon region from 1935 to 1937.
- The 17-month expedition started at the Santo Antonio waterfall, located on the lower reaches of the Amazon tributary the Jary, and moved up the Jary towards French Guyana. The Germans enlisted the help of several Indians, especially for transport purposes. The film also describes the hunt for jungle animals, the life of the Indians and how the expedition travelers had to drag their heavy boats with the equipment past waterfalls through the jungle in order to overcome the waterfalls. The expedition was also funded by the foreign organization of the NSDAP (NSDAP/AO) and the Brazilian government and was commissioned by the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology. During the expedition, Schulz-Kampfhenkel and his companion Gerd Kahle devised a plan for the Third Reich to conquer French Guyana and the neighboring colonies, later named Guiana and Suriname respectively. The plan, which Schulz-Kampfhenkel later unsuccessfully proposed to Heinrich Himmler, is not mentioned in the film.—Filmportal
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