Holiday vendors and shop keepers in Berlin selling wares and gifts to shoppers at Christmas time, 1919. A man buys a wooden clapping toy from a boy street vendor. A fruit vendor sells fruits from his wooden cart. Germans lined up to buy Christmas trees from a vendor beside a public square area. Pedestrians fill the sidewalks, passing by tents with holiday vendors, as seen from elevated position in a moving vehicle traveling on a main street in Berlin. Happy children and adults seen shopping and walking in the crowd. Children and adults gather at a store window that sells toys, and watch a vendor showing a toy zeppelin that flies back and forth, and a wind-up, mechanical car toy.
Silhouette of the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) and the Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Then pedestrians and vehicles are seen around the Statue of Frederick the Great along Unter den Linden boulevard. Also seen is statue in Siegesallee created by sculptor Reinhold Begas (and likely August Krauss) in 1900, commemorating German Emperor William I. Bust on the left of the William I statue commemorates Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and the bust on the right is of Otto von Bismarck. Next, is shown the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal) an equestrian statue of the first German Emperor Wilhelm I, on the west side of the Berlin City Palace (Schloßpl., 10178 Berlin, Germany). View from a camera moving away from the Victory Column on the Königsplatz across from the Reichstag. Final image is an iron Statue of Paul von Hindenburg in front of the Victory Column.
School children and teachers demonstrate against the Treaty of Versailles peace terms in Berlin, Germany. A group of women and children walks on path. School children walk, in-line from the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). People walk in sidewalks of the Unter den Linden boulevard. Some vehicles pass through the Brandenburg Gate. The Victory column (Platz der Republik 10557 Berlin, Germany), then located in its former location in the Königsplatz (now the Platz der Republik), can be seen in the background from Pariser Platz.
People walk at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. People walk on pathway along road at gate. Two men walk on road. Vehicles pass through the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). The Victory column (Platz der Republik 10557 Berlin, Germany), then located in its former location in the Königsplatz (now the Platz der Republik), can be seen in the background.
A large crowd gathers at the Lustgarten in Berlin, Germany. Men hold boards and placards in their hands. Trees in Lustgarten (Lustgarten, Unter den Linden 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany). Soldiers marching in Berlin’s Deutsches Stadion, present-day Olympiastadion (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany). Men in military uniforms of prior older eras parade with flags of various German states. Spectators watch the event. Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff lead a procession of German officials, one of whom holds a banner with writing "1.G.I.D."
Large crowd gathered in Berlin, Germany in front of the Brandenburg Gate and the Hotel Adlon (Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin, Unter den Linden 77, 10117 Berlin, Germany) in the early days of the Weimar Republic. They gather and demonstrate to protest the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and to urge the government not to sign the treaty. People streaming through the gate, some holding signs. Crowd marches up the avenue. Brief view of some people standing on top of the Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany).