Election Day on March 5th, 1933 in Berlin, Germany. Germany's President, Paul von Hindenburg, comes out of election booth. Other names are called out as they vote, including Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen who is seen coming out of the voting booth and chatting with others.
Testing of the "Vierstabers" rockets at the Schwielowsee (lake in State of Brandenburg Germany) by Klaus Riedel and associates, in September, 1933. The rocket set up on its four legs aboard a motor launch in the lake. It launches and flies a short distance to fall into the lake. Another attempt shows a rocket doing the same, except this one explodes upon impact with the water. Scene shifts to October, 1933, with testing of the "Zweistabers" rockets. A motor launch sits in the water, next to a point of land where launch crew is setting up a two-legged rocket.
Period following German elections in March,1933. Newspapers on a billboard with "Adolf Hitler" boldly displayed in print. German SA (Stormtroopers) Headquarters with sign reading: "S.A.Heim, Sturm 16L." Torchlight parade of German SA (Stormtroopers) along a street. Nazi officials stand around. House of labor union with SA troops manning a machine gun in front. Copy of Sunday Morning Post of March 12, 1933. Several Storm troopers marching along the street. SS troopers in black uniforms, mingling with SA (storm troopers) in brown shirts.
Adolf Hitler's first speech as Germany's Chancellor, given at the Sports Palace or Sportpalast (Ehemaliger Standort Sportpalast Berlin, Potsdamer Str. 172B, 10783 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. A large banner is hung across the hall behind the speaker's stand, reading: "Mecht Deutschland vom Marxismus Frei" (Make Germany free from Marxism). Hitler, in khaki uniform, makes his way to the podium through cadre of uniformed Stormtroopers who act as an honor guard. A crowd applauds and many give the Nazi salute to Hitler as he speaks to them.
Crowds gather in Potsdam, Germany, where most of the newly elected members of the Reichstag (Parliament) hold their first meeting in the Garrison church. Views of the street, crowds, and the Garrison Church. Banner in street says, " We greet the new Germany." President Hindenburg steps from the church, holding his Field Marshal's baton, and greets two clergymen. Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers struggle to hold crowds back. Members of the Reichstag exit the church, wearing top hats.
Scenes of Anti-Jewish activities by Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi stormtroopers, in Germany. A sign cautions against believing Jewish propaganda about atrocities. A shop window with anti-Jewish grafiti. Germans pasting boycott posters on the roads and in the window of Jewish owned departmental store. Crowd of people seen.