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Fritz von Opel's rocket-powered car OPEL RAK 2 sets speed record in 1928 at famous AVUS race track in Berlin
Before the eyes of 3000 invited guests, the Opel RAK 2, Fritz von Opel's rocket car, set a speed record in 1928 at Berlin's AVUS race track. The Opel RAK 2 managed a top speed of 238 km/h with the help of 24 solid-fuel rockets packed with 120 kilograms of fuel. Fritz von Opel chose the high-speed AVUS track in Berlin because the company's racetrack was not engineered for speeds over 140 km/h. Men fix rocket boosters on the car. The car moves at a high speed. It releases large amount of smoke as it moves. Crowd watches the car. Photographers take pictures.
Film shows contrast between the prewar and postwar times in Germany, before and after the First World War
Two German men at a cafe reminisce about former times. Views of those prewar days (before World War I) in Germany. German Workers pack goods at a factory. Elevated view of German people walking at platforms of a busy railway station and people sit in train. Woman stands and approaches lake beach water, she removes her robe to swim; children play and swim at a beach. Many families cooking on portable stoves near the beach shore. Two women cook and taste food. Boy eats food and view of his family enjoying a meal together. People sit on a wagon. Brief return to restaurant scene with the two men. Then scene of female performer as she blindfolds a male trapeze artists who then performs in a German circus, leaping from a platform in a trapeze act, releasing from the trapeze while blindfolded, and successfully catching the hands of another trapeze artist. Scene switches to postwar era (after World War 1), where the emphasis is on Girls! Numerous scenes of various female dancer groups performing on stage, with high kicks and precision dancing in Follies-type productions. In next scene, outdoors, German soldiers are seen on parade through the Brandenburg Gate. Numerous outdoor scenes of Germans enjoying themselves in Berlin. Many Berlin landmarks and statues shown in the time before World War 2. Scenes include: the Berlin Cathedral; The Poseidon Statue next to Alexander Platz; Brandenburg Gate; Unter den Linden; Lustgarten; a tour bus flying an American flag; and the winged Berlin Victory column rising up, as seen from a moving vehicle.
German dirigible Graf Zeppelin greeted welcome by a crowd when it reaches Berlin after its visit to United States.
German dirigible Graf Zeppelin greeted welcome when it reaches Berlin after its visit to United States. The dirigible lowers near a statue for landing at a ground. A crowd near the airfield to see the dirigible landing. German aircrafts fly in a formation over the dirigible landing on ground. Crew on a specially prepared mast inspect the dirigible. Doctor Hugo Eckener, commander of the flight of Graf Zeppelin moves out of the cabin and greeted by German military and civil officials.