President Paul von Hindenburg speaking briefly on occasion of his re-election in 1932. Armed elements of a Freikorps (Free Corps) controlling people exiting a building in Berlin. A large contingent of Freikorps marching on a street. Freikorps forming themselves and moving to control people demonstrating in Berlin. A parade on a city street being led by Freikorps, carrying batons. Many spectators line the sidewalk.
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, 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.
Shows various scenes of Adolf Hitler during his rise to power in Germany. Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany in 1932. Hitler at a podium and speaks into a microphone. Nazi Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) stand around the podium. A swastika insignia of the Nazi Party. People listen to Hitler's speech. Printing of newspapers. Headlines in newspaper about Adolf Hitler and his growing popularity. Several scenes of newspaper printing presses turning out new editions. Hitler in a motorcade and people crowd around the motorcade. German Nazi party member Alfred Rosenberg addresses the German people (with audio). Nazi Stormtroopers march on streets and hold the Nazi flag. Some hold torches during night rally. Hitler looks out from a window at the gathered crowd.
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.
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.