The movie is set during 1941 in a World War II Berlin. A scientist named Dr. Hess is forced by the Nazis to create a drug capable of animating objects, but can not get it right. In a building, Andre Toulon has set up a politically satirical puppet show for children, starring a six-armed American Old West puppet named Six Shooter, who attacks an inanimate reconstruction of Adolf Hitler. Backstage after the show, Andre and his wife feed the formula to Tunneler, Pinhead, Jester and Six Shooter. Outside the building, a Nazi spies on them and takes pictures.