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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.
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.
Scenes of Berlin Germany during the Kapp Putsch of 1920
The Kapp Putsch in Berlin during the Weimar Republic period. In opening scene about 20 Freikorps soldiers in uniform, are seen gathered around a motor vehicle on which an anti aircraft gun is mounted. One wears a fez. One soldier cranks a handle to raise the elevation of the gun to a high angle. Civilian spectators watch the demonstration. A warship can be seen in water behind the soldiers. Masts of docked sailing vessels are seen close behind them. Freikorps soldiers walk about. A military band plays as some of the soldiers stop and listen to them and pedestrians and motorists pass by. Flag of Prussia flies over top of a building. Helmeted German soldiers with rifles, stand about, casually, at the gates of a building. Soldiers, loaded onto a Benz truck, pass out newspaper flyers to passersby. People milling about in the street. Freikorps soldiers lined up as an officer inspects their rifles. Their insignia is visible on their left coat sleeves. Crowd of spectators stand behind barbed wire barrier surrounding a cleared square in the city secured by Army soldiers in steel helmets. One of them has Freikorps insignia on his left sleeve. Weimar Republic officials, including Philipp Scheidemann stroll across the square and proceed through the crowd outside the barbed wire barrier. Soldiers examine papers of civilian officials trying to enter the restricted area. One of them is allowed access. Army troops and Freikorps soldiers mingle together as civilians pass by them.
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.)
U.S. President Warren Harding dies. Calvin Coolidge becomes President. Good times in America and Hyperinflation in Germany
America and Europe during post World War 1 period of 1920s Sketches: American workers in factories. The U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding converses with a friend. President with other officials signs a paper. President Harding dies and the Nation mourns. Pallbearers carry coffin of the President. Sketches depict the various scandals under the Harding administration, including the Tea Pot Dome scandal. Vice President John Calvin Coolidge becomes President. Several sketches of the President . Sketches of rich people in America. People in a car. Automobiles driven out of a Ford factory. Sketch of the workers building a road. Various labor saving electrical devices. Sketches depict a housewife relaxing and people becoming better off economically. Ordinary people gamble on the stock market. Various pictures of American farmers suffering, as demand for food falls in the wake of World War 1. Economic and financial crises affect Germany. Hyperinflation and riots occur in Germany. The unrest gives rise to future leaders like Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini, in Italy.
Origins and rise of Hitler and Nazi party are reviewed during the Nuremberg Trials at the Palace of Justice.
Events of Nazi crimes are related during the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief prosecutor from the United States, Robert Houghwout Jackson, makes the opening statement of the prosecution. He presents Count 1 of the indictment a conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against peace and humanity. Defendants stand in their dock including Herman Goring, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel. View of the Adolf Hitler's autobiography, "Mein Kampf". Nazi flag flutters in Munich, Germany. Scenes of panic, riots, and political and economic unrest in the streets of post World War I Munich, Germany, during the 1920's and 1930's as Adolf Hitler and his associates rose to power. Large crowd gathered on the streets on the eve of Nazi party rally. A younger Adolf Hitler and aides pose at the stairs of a building. Adolf Hitler reviews his Brownshirt Sturmabteilung SA troops. Hermann Goering (Göring) seen briefly at front of a unit of marching Sturmabteilung, rendering Nazi salute. Hitler addresses the party. Joseph Goebbels shown in an office seated at a desk and talking on phone, and then speaking at an early Nazi rally. View of headlines of German Newspapers. Scenes of street riots and efforts by the Nazis aimed to gain the highest degree of control over the Germans by any means. Burning of books by Nazi leaders in a large bonfire. Exterior view of the Reichstag in Berlin.
