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Dignitaries including Ellis Loring Dresel gather for signing of the U.S.-German Peace Treaty of 1921 in Berlin.
View of Ellis Loring Dresel, United States commissioner to Germany and chargé d'affaires for the United States in Germany, seen standing beside a building in Berlin. Men gather for the signing of the United States peace treaty with Germany in Berlin, almost three years after the World War I armistice was signed. Mr. Dresel and two other diplomats enter a 1920's car parked on the street, as a small crowd stands by. The Treaty document is shown for the camera, bearing the signature of Ellis Loring Dresel.
Rise of Fascism in Italy and Germany after World War I
Animated map depicts the spread of Fascism in Japan, Germany and its neighboring countries, and Italy. Views of Italian Fascist "Black Shirts" marching bearing flags and rendering the fascist Roman Salute. Fascists participating in the famous "March on Rome" (“Marcia su Roma”) in October 27, 1922. Spectators line the sidewalks and side of the road. Brief (jerky) views of unrest and desperate crowds of citizens in post-war Italy circa 1919 and 1920 following World War I, due to unemployment and hard times. Italian people getting food at an outdoor soup kitchen. Fascists promising better times are seen parading and riding in jammed open cars. Benito Mussolini, who was elected to Parliament in 1921, is seen in a top hat, arms akimbo, standing with other officials. Glimpse of Black Shirts marching in front of the Palazzo Venezia (Via del Plebiscito, 118, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Back to Mussolini, again, who now makes some remarks to those standing with him and expresses himself with exaggerated body language. Another glimpse of Black Shirts marching. Film transitions to Germany, where Adolf Hitler is seen walking through a dense crowd of supporters and some brownshirts or SA stormtroopers. Hitler's clothes resemble a military uniform. Next, scenes illustrating the terrible post-World War 1 hyperinflation suffered by Germany during the Weimar Republic. Various Deutschmark (Deutsche Mark) banknotes in ridiculous denominations are shown. Baker puts a 460 billion Deutschmark price on bread. People trying to buy groceries during this period. German militaristic marchers. Fascists giving arm salutes as they parade in a city street. General Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg (President of Germany) is seen standing in front of Germany's top military leaders. Directly behind him is Marshal August von Mackensen, in a fur busby hat with Totenkopf (death head) insignia. Other Generals wear pickelhaube spiked helmets. Hindenburg's closest associate, General Erich Ludendorff stands just behind and to the left of Hindenburg. Glimpse of German soldiers in more modern uniforms. Next, Hindenburg is seen reviewing troops in the company of their commander. Next, Hitler is seen with a group of German civilian industrialists whose interests he promises to support. Alfred Krupp Jr. sits, with his legs crossed, next to Hitler. Glimpse of Hitler, in uniform, waving from a window. People running as a cadre of mounted police canter in formation down the street.
Bolshevik leader Lenin, Commander of the Red Army Leon Trotsky and Russian soldiers during the Civil War in Russia.
Scenes from the Russian Revolution and years immediately after in Russia, roughly 1918-1921. Troops moving in the snow. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, makes peace with the Germans. The Civil War breaks out in Russia. White Russians continue war with World War 1 allies, against Germany. Czarist Cossacks seek to restore the monarchy of Nicholas II. Photograph of the Russian Czar and family sitting outdoors on the ledge of a wooden building. Secret police seen arresting people. Bolshevik firing squad executes three prisoners, who fall dead into a mass grave behind them. Lenin, holding a kitten in his hand, seated at a table. March 7, 1921: Workers and sailors gathered on the streets, in Kronstadt, demanding peace, freedom, and bread. Red Army Troops disperse the crowd, shooting many of them. Leon Trotsky, Commander of the Red Army, states that the slaughter was necessary. Trotsky seen walking with other officers. People on the sides of a path watching Trotsky. Families looking over dead workers and sailors in a field.
Strikes, hyperinflation, and food shortages in Germany. Germans march with shovels and Hitler launches Kraft durch Freude ship.
Scenes in Germany in 1920s and 1930s. Changes in Germany during Adolf Hitler's leadership. Workers on strike. Workers sitting with no work. Hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic 1921-1923 after World War I. Money, drafts and notes with huge values seen due to inflation. Woman buying from vendor with large prices posted. Band musicians playing jazz music, people dancing as inflation becomes uncontrollable. Men are given shovels to march with by Nazi official (likely early Reich Labor Service or RAD of NSDAP). Adolf Hitler speaks to a crowd about rebuilding of Germany. The launch of several ships. First is seen the launch of luxury liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1937, with Hitler present on a podium. (The MV Gustloff was the first ship built specifically for the German Labor Front’s Kraft durch Freude (“Strength Through Joy” program.) German officials give Nazi salutes. German flags on the ship.
Events leading to rise of Nazi Party in Germany in the late 1920s. Riots and demonstrations; early scenes of NSDAP party
A film depicts scenes of the rise of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in Germany from 1921 to 1933. Early parades of Nazi Party and crowd in Germany. Adolf Hitler arrives at Nazi Party meetings. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels speaks. Party members gives a salute. Demonstration and riot in Munich in Marienplatz area, between Communist KPD members and NSDAP browshirts, and police, known as the Beer Hall Putsch or Munich Putsch in November 1923. Newspaper headlines of Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler jailed. A man writes on a Nazi Party card. Joseph Goebbels at his office. Baldur von Schirach exits a building. Italian members of the Fascist Party arrive by car on visit in Germany.
Ruins and damaged buildings in Berlin and Munich Germany at the end of World War II in Europe.
Opening scenes are of ruins in Berlin, Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. Damaged Brandenburg Gate and ruined buildings of Berlin. Damaged building of Adlon Hotel. Allied troops move forward in Germany to complete the Allied occupation of Germany. A truck loaded with Allied troops heads towards Berchtesgaden. Smoke rises from the Berghof, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's mountain residence (Narrator refers to it as the Eagle's Nest, which is not correct. The Eagle's Nest or Kehlsteinhaus was not bombed and is not shown in this clip). Ruins and damaged buildings in Munich including exterior building facade, and arched stair entrance to festhall, marked with painted lettering by American soldiers, "157th infantry, 45th Division." Interior views of the Hofbräuhaus München beer hall (Hofbräuhaus am Platzl), including interior views of ruins inside its drinking room (trinkstube) with shattered windows and broken furniture. (Narrator refers to this as "the famous beer hall." At least two noteworthy NASDAP formative events occurred there: On February 25, 1920, Hitler presented the Nazi Party Twenty Five Point Program there. On November 4, 1921 the National Socialist party held a large public meeting at the Hofbräuhaus and fighting and protesting broke out after Hitler spoke. The Sturmabteilungen, or "SA", then in its infancy, attacked and ejected protestors.)
