Nazi Storm troopers, aka Sturmabteilung (SA) carry torches as they march past a huge bonfire, during celebrations the night of Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. Scene from earlier that evening, shows SA Sturm 33, headed by their Leader, Hans Eberhard Maikowski, and Berlin Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, as they march with flags and swastika banner, through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (A slate appears alluding to the fatal shootings of Maikowski and Zauritz, soon afterwards, when they decided to march through Wall Strasse, a known Communist area, where a melee broke out.)
German President Paul Von Hindenburg in Berlin, Germany. German troops in formation, as President Hindenburg, in military uniform, reviews them. A band plays the German national anthem. Soldiers salute Hindenburg with traditional (not nazi) military salutes. Several brownshirts and some spectators render the nazi salute. Hindenburg stops to converse with some older persons at edge of parade path.
Honor burial for riot victims in Berlin, Germany. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, officials of the Reich, Nazi officials and large crowds gather to attend a funeral. Dead bodies of a Nationalist Socialist storm troop leader and a state policeman are carried down steps and placed in caskets. The crowds give Nazi salute as the carriages carrying the caskets pass along streets. Troops follow the cortège.
Military ceremony outdoors at monument for fallen soldiers in Germany. Wreaths are laid at the base of the monument. A Nazi stormtrooper, in uniform without any visible insignia, addresses a rally in Germany and calls 'Sieg Heil' or Victory Hail for those killed in action and for the Fuhrer . Reporters and photographers are seen in gallery above speaker stand. View of parade and soldiers giving a Nazi salute.
Slate states the new Germany honors its dead by means of State Funeral. Brief views of the Berlin Cathedral (Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin, Germany). View of a resting (dead) Hans Eberhard Maikowski, Leader of a Storm Trooper unit (SA Sturm 33), who was fatally shot, along with Police Sergeant, Josef Zauritz, January 30th, during a melee with Communists after parading to celebrate Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Hermann Göring (or Goering) talking with Nazi officials on steps of building. Adolf Hitler stands near a car with large contingent of Storm Troopers. View from a high point of a funeral procession surrounded by huge crowd. The procession includes the hearses of Maikowski and Sauritz, pulled by horses. Close view of elaborate hearse of Zauritz, drawn by covered horses and escorted by Berlin policemen, and that of Maikowski, escorted by Nazi Stormtroopers. Procession of mourners including Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering, followed by Stormtroopers carrying wreaths. Pallbearers in top hats carry a coffin.
Adolf Hitler, with Ernst Röhm (or Roehm), leader of the "Brown Shirts" (Sturmabteilungm, or SA), in Bavaria. Behind them sits an SA band, with swastika emblems on their music stands. The band plays, briefly. Hitler speaks and is cheered by moderately-sized audience.