U.S. Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg in Berlin, Germany. Jeeps drive down a road and a U.S. Air Force C-54G aircraft in the background. The aircraft taxis along the Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg gets off the flight. Officers at the airfield salute. Military police jeeps move past the troops lined up at the airfield. The officers in the jeep move past the color guard carrying American flag. A military band and troops march past the officers.
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.)
Adolf Hitler at opening of the International Auto Show in Berlin on 20 February 1937. He strolls along a street, past a military honor guard. He is accompanied by several Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung). Hitler walks up to and shakes hands with members of a German motorcycle racing team, standing next to their machines. He then greets and shakes hands with three racing car drivers standing near their cars (Mercedes Silver Arrows). View of crowd enthusiastically greeting Hitler. Next, the racing cars drive along the street, followed by Hitler and companions in his Mercedes-Benz W150 770 Paradewagenen. The rest of his entourage follows in open staff cars. Glimpse of Military honor guard presenting arms in salute. View of the motorcade driving toward the camera, along the Unter den Linden, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background. Spectators line the sidewalks. The motorcade passes a long line of German military motorcyclists standing next to their machines. The motorcade stops there where Hitler steps from the lead car and crosses the street to enters the building housing the Auto Show, which is guarded by black uniformed SS troops standing along the sidewalk. Images of the Berlin 1937 Auto Show illustrated Posters advertising the "Internationale Automobil und Motorrad Ausstellung" (International automobile and motorcycle exhibition). Poster shows stylized artistic drawings of cars and sketch of the Brandenburg Gate. Inside the building a stage is lined with a group of trumpeters in fancy regalia, playing a fanfare. Nazi swastika banners are massed in the back of the stage. From a podium on stage Hitler delivers a short address to open the event, in which he reiterates his desire to have a low-price car produced for the ordinary people of Germany. Closeup of Joseph Goebbels with arms folded, in the audience. View of men in fancy regalia holding Nazi swastika banners. Next, Goebbels is seen at the podium, acting as a cheer leader for the National Socialistic Party (Nazi Party), the German nation, and its leader, Adolf Hitler. He leads the audience in chanting "Zieg Heil." three times. Curtains part revealing automobiles on display. Closeup of the front of a Daimler Benz car. Adolf Hitler leads others entering the exhibit floor, accompanied by executives of the automotive industry. Goebbels is seen at his side, next to Dr. H.C. Wilhelm Kissel, who became the first chairman of the Board of Daimler-Benz AG in 1937. Closeup of Hitler reaching out to a car, as Kissel stands near, behind him. Hitler and Kissel converse and Hitler embraces him and expresses his enthusiasm. Again Hitler reaches out to the car, commenting as he does. View of the exhibit floor filled with cars and people. Closeup of Hitler conversing with civilian auto executives as he stands next to a streamlined Adler 2,5 Liter Type 10 Cabriolet automobile. Closeup of the chrome embellished hood and front bumper of the Adler car. Hitler closely examining the tread of an auto tire. Closeup of transparent cutaway showing inside of a car hood. Hitler standing on the opposite side of the car. Hitler stands with several men discussing a DKW-Union automobile with its side hood panels raised. Men discussing the new Opel Admiral sedan introduced at this auto show. (The car was powered by a newly developed 3,626 cc straight-six engine.) Hitler with others, looking under the hood at the engine. Sketch of a German artificial rubber tire factory. View of materials used in tire manufacture. Closeups of tires. BMW R6 motorcycle and other motorcycles. Remainder of film devoted to engines, and many cars made by DKW-Union.
The Friedrichstrasse checkpoint in Berlin, Germany. The Berlin Wall and the gate on East German side of Friedrichstrasse checkpoint. Guards stand at the checkpoint. Buildings in the background. Cars and buses winding around the barriers. There is snow on the ground.
Activities of 8th Fighter Air Force Command in Berlin, Germany during World War II. A fleet of United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over German targets on the ground. Explosions on the ground. U.S. fighter command aircraft in Berlin. A fleet of P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings and P-47 Thunderbolts of the USAAF fly in formation above clouds. United States airplanes destroy German aircraft. Explosions in the air. A United States pilot seated in a cockpit.
Aerial view of the Tempelhof Aerodrome in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Aerial views of rivers and the city of Berlin. Views of bomb damaged buildings. Large logs in a river.
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