Berlin, Germany at night. Views of International Congress Centre tower, night view of streets. Large poster at theatre advertising the film Die Herrin Von Atlantis (The Mistress of Atlantis) with Brigitte Helm (released in Berlin in September 1932). Many lit nighttime and neon signs and buildings including Cafe Am Zoo, Automat, Michels, Capitol theatre showing a film starring Elisabeth Berger and Rudolf Forster and directed by Paul Czinner (Possibly Dreaming Lips or Melo -- both released in 1932). Platz Hermann Tietz. Wintergarten theatre and show chorus line or chorus girl line women dancing inside. Fireworks show over water. German band playing brass instruments with some band members sitting on top of the shoulders of others. Beer taps filling beer steins. People drinking liquor, smoking and dancing in groups at various locations. Female bartender and show girl wearing hat "Haus Waterland" mixes drink while dancing side to side. Dancing girls in a line at the Haus Vaterland nightclub, with band Sid Kay's Fellows playing in the background (led by Sigmund Petruschka and Kurt Kaiser). A man and a chef share a sausage on a platter. Brief moments of on-location background sounds during some scenes.
Germans streaming into the first Berlin Olympic Stadium or Deutsches Stadion (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) in Westend to attend a Nazi party rally. A Sturmabteilung (SA) band performs a concert. The band marches and plays. SA athletes display their prowess, running in formation around the stadium track; performing synchronized calisthenics; and running to form a giant swastika in the field. The rally continues into the night, with torchlight activities watched by Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and Hermann Goering, from a balcony.
Berlin citizens are seen on an ordinary day in Berlin, Germany. People, cars, and a horse drawn wagon on a street in front of a park. A Berlin policeman is among the pedestrians. View of the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) on on Museum Island in the Mitte borough. Pigeons flying all about the dome. A newspaper being printed on a belt-driven press. Two men hawking numerous newspapers and magazines at a newsstand. A woman looking at a publication, nest to a display containing womens' magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post (September 24, 1932 edition) and Vogue, among others. A busy intersection with cars, a bus, cyclists, and pedestrians.
Several pigeons gathered on a square. Building in the background. A man sits on steps of building, smoking a pipe. Old women sit and talk. Horse eats from feed bag while driver of the carriage (one in a line) dozes waiting for a passenger. A man riding in an open carriage lights his cigar in the wind. He wears a hat with decorative brush in hatband. Traffic passes by. A view of the Victory Column (Siegessäule) in Königsplatz A man talks on a telephone. Woman works at telephone switchboard. Mail sacks emptied and piled on tables, and then each mail piece is rapidly hand stamped. Policemen ride in open car through heavy traffic, while one of them blows on a trumpet or horn. Policeman arrests a man, holding him by the collar. Pigeons fly by the Berlin Cathedral. Newspapers and magazines on street corner (including The American "Saturday Evening Post" with cover partially visible from September 1932 edition).
A crowd of many thousands of Germans, including Communists and National Socialists (Nazis) demonstrating against one another, on May 1st, 1932, in the Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany. Police have difficulty keeping the groups from rioting. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler making an impassioned speech in the tumult. Various views of the densely packed crowd. Scene shifts abruptly to a Nazi rally at Zeppeiin Field in Nuremberg, where thousands of Nazi SA Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) render Nazi salutes. Another shift of scene shows a German Youth rally for workers and the Führer being held in a city square.
Celebration of the 13th anniversary of the Constitution in Berlin Germany. President Paul Von Hindenberg arrives to attend the ceremony. Excited crowd cheers and welcomes him at his arrival. Chancellor Franz Von Papen accompanies President Hindenberg. Reichswehr soldiers in uniform standing in lines outside the Reichstag building and saluting the guest of honor. President Hindenberg gets in car and drives away from the Reichstag.