A railroad train pulled by a steam locomotive arrives at a train station in France during WWI. French soldiers unload crates from the train. A man pours coffee for a soldier. Two French nurses walking on the station platform as other French soldiers unload crates. Man drinks with coffee cup. Two French nurses pacing around. French soldiers put injured patient in stretchers on the train. A Departure (“Départ” in French) sign indicating time of departure is near. Soldiers and nurses move to board the train. French soldiers cross tracks towards waiting train. Train departs from the station.
The German SM U-35 U-boat sinks a ship in the Mediterranean Sea during World War 1. The ship’s stern rises high into the air before sinking completely in the sea. The German SM U-35 U-Boat Commander, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, gets his logbook and pen from a crewman. Commander Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière marks off the sunken ship in the log book.
German military officers inspecting a trench during World War 1. Officers climb a fire step to inspect field from the trench parapet. View of German officers from behind, facing the parapet of trench. German officer enters a narrow dugout. Battlefield with barbed wires as seen through parapet side of a trench.
German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg enters a car to leave for the Reichstag to give speech declaring war, start of WWI. Honor guards assist and salute Chancellor. Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg as he heads for the Reichstag to declare war on Belgium and France. Crowds of Germans salute with their hats. Honor guards on horseback and soldiers marching with flags during a military parade in Berlin. Civilians march along soldiers in parade. People wave good-bye as mobilized German soldiers leave for World War I on the train.
Russia immediately after the Russian Revolution and takeover of Petrograd. Russians marching on the streets with placards, waving white flags. Bolshevik officers disembark from a train. Russian Marxist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, in military uniform, shakes hands with officers. Leon Trotsky and Bolshevik officers walking together. Bolshevik officers leave by car. Bolshevik men and women with rifles enter a building. View of Vladimir Lenin, wearing civilian clothes, in a crowd. Guards with artillery at the Smolny Institute in Petrograd.
The Spartacist uprising (Spartakusaufstand), also known as the January uprising (Januaraufstand) in January, 1919 in Berlin. Aerial view of crowds running in a plaza. People engage in street fighting and damaging cars. A truck full of soldiers arrives at the scene. German soldiers patrolling street. Barricades on the street. German soldiers on lookout as men clear barricades. Men carry the body of a dead man, possibly Karl Liebknecht, in a bedsheet. German soldier behind street barrel barricade. Crowd walks on sidewalk at Alexander Str. behind barbed wire.
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