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.
Political scenario in Europe prior to World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II reviews troops in Germany. The Kaiser on horseback followed by officers also on horseback. Emperor Franz Joseph I in Austria. He is accompanied by a royal party. A dignitary in a horse driven carriage. German General Von Hindenberg reviews a parade in Berlin. Soldiers march. Cavalry units move in review.
Outbreak of World War I as a consequence of Archduke of Austria-Este Francis Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo. Troops gather in Germany on the bidding of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Soldiers leave Berlin. Soldiers of the Alexandria Regiment march. Family members bid farewell as new recruit soldiers board a railroad train and leave for a war front. Smiling soldiers. A huge crowd at a platform to bid farewell to the soldiers. The train carrying the soldiers pulls away.
Scenes of pre-World-War-1 Berlin, Germany. Brief film opens showing a German man singing onstage. The background is a painted depiction of an artistic interior in a home. Next, two Vaudevillians (Varietemitglied) are seen onstage, exchanging quips. The backdrop is a painted cityscape. Next, a small boy and small girl are seen on a city street, near an organ grinder. They dance to his music. View of the ancient Jungfernbruecke bascule bridge (drawbridge) in Mitte district, Berlin. This is a manually operated drawbridge, It spans the Spreekanal and connects the streets Friedrichsgracht and Oberwasserstraße. It was built during the time of Frederick I , of the Hohenzollern dynasty. A man walking across the bridge, and views of buildings and several local residents, in the vicinity.of the bridge. Glimpse of a woman and man conversing in a cafe.
Military trucks (possible Opel or Büssing ) carrying equipment driving out of a garage in Germany during World War 1. Soldiers closes garage door after the last truck leaves the garage.
German army and Freikorps setting up positions as they establish themselves in Berlin during the Kapp Putsch of 1920. Civilians watch as the soldiers go about their activities, setting up machine guns and the like during the unrest. A line of military trucks, displaying the Empire war flag. Crowd of civilians held back by barrier across the road. Troops bivouacked near a building, with machine guns on the sidewalk in foreground and a field kitchen in background. The Reichskriegsflagge (Empire War Flag) displayed on the building. German soldiers prepare to operate armored cars. Turret turning on an Austin Armored Car Model 1914, rearmed with German Maxim Machine Guns. Several armored cars depart on patrol. They all display skull and cross bones. Soldiers distribute flyers announcing the monarchistischen Putsch (Monarchist coup). Soldiers eating food from their field kitchen. One displays the words kampfwagen and a skull and cross bones on his sleeve. Soldiers pose atop a wheeled heavy machine gun. View of crowds as seen from a moving vehicle. The Imperial war flag carried in the crowd.