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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.
Pope Pius XII and the civilians welcome the Allied forces in Rome, Italy.
The United States 5th Army enters Rome during World War II. Soldiers enter the city with M4 Sherman tanks. Troops marching in front of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) and the Roman Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Porta San Giovanni near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Italian women shake hands with Allied troops during a parade. Italian civilians running, possibly from sniper attack. Allied troops fire Browning M1919 machine guns at German snipers hiding from a building. A German soldier waves a white flag from a balcony. Pope Pius XII welcomes British troops inside the Vatican City. Pope Pius XII blesses the troops while being carried on a sedia gestatoria chair. Italian women inspect graves of massacred civilians in the catacombs. A sign gives notice of site where Italian civilians were massacred by German troops. British and Indian troops march towards Montone. Field guns fired, tanks advancing. Infantry moves on street.
Gabriele D'Annunzio and other Italian irredentist military volunteers occupy Fiume (Rijeka) after World War I.
Italian nationalist leader Gabriele D'Annunzio and other Italian irredentist leaders are warmly welcomed in the Adriatic port city of Fiume as his contingent of Italian military volunteers occupies the Adriatic city in September, 1919. Ships seen docked in the background, between buildings. Irredentism leader D'Annunzio, with a wide collar atop his uniform, and wearing gloves, speaks forcefully to the assembled crowd . Several of the officers are carried down the street atop the shoulders of the cheering crowd. A warship is docked in the background. Flag of the Kingdom of Italy is seen in the crowd. Gabriele D'Annunzio is seen later, in uniform with shirt and tie, but without the collar and gloves, making his way through the crowd and then becoming the center of attention for the cameraman, as he poses surrounded by young military volunteer admirers.
Enrico Caruso and his family at an Italian port.
Enrico Caruso with his wife arrive in a boat. Caruso and other debark. Caruso and his wife at the dock. Stationary boats in the background.Caruso plays a hand-clapping game with several women. His wife goes into the water to swim. He teases her. Caruso picks up a chair and approaches the cinematographer threatening, playfully, then sets chair down and sits on it, backwards. He engages in fun, joke boxing with a young man. Caruso hold his daughter and his wife stands next to him. [Note: These are last known surviving moving images of Enrico Caruso, taken in Italy 1921, only a few weeks before his untimely death. His daughter Gloria (seen in the film) was born in December 1919, and was a year and a half. Enrico Caruso died from pleurisy in Sorrento on August 2nd, 1921, aged 48.]
Fascist parade in front of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome, Italy
A Fascist parade in Rome, Italy. Italian Fascists holding flags in hands and a large wreath in front of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument or Altar of the Fatherland (Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). A Fascist convention in Piazza del Popolo. A big wreath is placed at the Victor Emmanuel II Monument.
Fascist Wreath laying Procession at memorial to fallen soldiers in Italy. Huge wreath carried by many persons.
Fascists, carrying flags with their emblem, march in wreath laying procession at memorial to fallen Italian soldiers shortly after the end of World War 1. They throw small garlands on inlaid plaque as they pass and , with many men carrying it, they place a giant wreath, with large "V" on it, at foot of monument to fallen soldiers.
