A poster on a wall, in Berlin Germany, announces Mobilization. German soldiers in uniforms,including Pickelhaube (spiked helmets), assemble in a courtyard. Others are assembled in a city square. where they examine and sight their rifles, while being watched by several officers, dressed in long coats and caps. Members of an Army band walk rapidly past the camera, carrying their drums and other instruments, but not playing them. Soldiers assembled in a small square, with their arms stacked. A German army officer walks rapidly past civilian recruits gathered in a large square to join the army. Soldiers stand at large tables where the recruits sign up. Berlin citizens crowd a square as war is declared in 1914. Views from a vehicle driving past a crowd gathered in front of the Berliner Dom, on Museum Island in the Mitte borough. German soldiers are keeping civilians away from a large rectangular space set aside in front of the Berliner Dom. Crowd gathered in front of the Imperial Palace on the Museum Island at Schlossplatz. Glimpse of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial. Glimpse of troops parading in formation. Glimpse of a bemedaled German Hussar officer with unidentified domed building in background. Kaiser Wilhelm II , speaks from a porch on the Imperial Palace, announces the declaration of World War 1, to an assembled crowd of citizens. Monument of Otto von Bismarck in Berlin, with the Reichstag building in the background. Troops parading through crowds of spectators in front of the Reichstag.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..
View of a fountain in front of the Berlin Cathedral. People stand in front of the City Palace of Berlin (the Stadtschloss Berliner, Schloßpl. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany). An equestrian statue of a German emperor near the Berlin Cathedral or Unter den Linden. People walk on a road. People walk by sculptures besides the road. The National Gallery of Berlin (Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany). People walk on the sideways near the Nationalgalerie.
Mobilization and deployment of the German Army from Berlin, Germany for World War I. The Bismarck Memorial in front of the Reichstag building (Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany). Cheering crowd in front of the building. Officers unload supplies from a cart. German officers hand over the supply packs to newly recruited soldiers. A band plays. Mobilized soldiers stand in formation. The soldiers march. Officers on horses review the troops.
Scenes of Berlin, Germany before World War I. View of the Berlin skyline and surrounding areas. Smoke arises from the chimney. Pedestrians in Friedrichstrasse. Soldiers march with rifles on the road. Outer view of a building. Two women walk on the Unter den Linden and two men walk past them. People walk in the Lustgarten. The equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III is seen in Lustgarten (Am Lustgarten 1 10178 Berlin)
Victory column Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. People walk at a passage around Victory column. People walk near Brandenburg Gate.