The 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany. A horse rider makes his horse jump over obstacles during the jumping phase of an equestrian event. Reich Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels and other German officials look through binoculars. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler seated. Goebbels and German General Herman Goering seated. The crowd cheers for a German competitor.
Funeral parade in Germany in 1919, possibly sometime after the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin. Large crowd of people gather on both sides of a funeral parade route, with an industrial area and factory in the background. Band players at the parade. Two horse carts seen carrying eight coffins. Mourners in the parade process and some carry wreaths. Group preceding the caskets carries KPD flags with the Communist Party of Germany logo beneath the letters (hammer and sickle inside star).
German military mobilization, build up and preparation for World War II, and scenes of bombing and German attacks in World War 2. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in Berlin addresses crowd. In a German home, a German family supporting war economy and German war effort eats a one dish meal and children sit at table in a uniform with swastika (Hitler Youth). Table scraps and even human hair are collected for German pigs and placed in a specially designed box provided to German citizens. German soldier comes to house and collects money and a food pack from a German woman for the war effort. German boys with Hitler Youth take training in name of 'Strength through joy'. Boys of the Hitler Youth doing calisthenics and exercises. Boys practice at Gliding club throughout Germany. A glider taking off from a hillside with German boys receiving instruction. Hitler Youth boys seated on ground outdoors in front of a map as uniformed propaganda instructor explains how 'Germany must expand'. Officer shows world map to boys. Boys walk and perform manual labor with spade shovels on roads for 'Compulsory Labor System'. Armament or munitions factory for naval torpedoes. A German factory worker moving completed torpedoes for German Kriegsmarine Navy in an arms warehouse. Shirtless Hitler youth carrying a bomb to be loaded onto an aircraft. German Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber aircraft takes off. Interior view of a German bomber aircraft as German bombardier crew member sights his target. Aerial view of He-111 bombers in flight. Bombs away view of German bomber aircraft dropping bombs on a target city. British citizens running for cover during a blitzkrieg attack by German Luftwaffe. A woman runs with a young girl by her side during the blitz attack in the United Kingdom. Fire burning in a building with sign for "Colmans Mustard." A warehouse building demolished from bombing. Scenes of German military might: German Parachute troops dive from a formation of Ju 52 trimotor aircraft. Close-up aerial views of German paratroopers during the jump, including ground views of paratrooper landing. German tank driving through a forest, destroying and leveling trees in its path. German tanks crashing through a barn at a farm. A German tank smashing through the wall of a house. Point of view shots from artillery or tanks firing guns at enemy targets. German tank navigating down hillsides and over rough terrain. A German Army soldier leaping from an elevated position down toward camera position. German soldiers running and advancing on a battlefield, passing barbed wire, and firing flamethrowers as they move forward. Damaged house. Soldier fires and tanks go on hills. Soldiers fire and run through firing.
American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) relief activities in Germany after World War I. Children gather in school yard in Old Dresden to eat white rolls and bean soup. Hungry children sit in rows to eat . Children seen sitting in pram. Officials receive contributions of clothing and read letters of thanks from children and citizens in Headquarters offices of the American Friends Service Committee in Berlin, Germany. A letter of thanks from a girls school. A nurse examining and massaging a girl patient afflicted with rachitis from malnourishment. Concerns about Tuberculosis and rickets in the children. A woman seen with a child in her arms.
Hermann Göring, in military uniform, broadcasts announcement of Germany's intent to rearm, in 1935. View of Adolf Hitler, in uniform, reviewing mobilized German troops, assembled in formation at the Lustgarten in Berlin, and on parade in grass field stadium. Scene shifts back to Göring reading text of his broadcast, and then to momentary glimpse of Russian tank in Red Square.(Germany and Russia collaborated on military hardware during interwar period.) An unmarked Russian T26 tank with cylindrical turret, displaying "T-149" on its lower front. A variety of tanks being run through trials, dropping over steep obstacles, moving through rivers, and plunging through obstacles. German gun crew with a 122mm field howitzer. Closeup of soldiers working at the breech area. Troops with rifles engaged in field exercises, taking prone positions and crawling along on the ground. German Navy (Kriegsmarine) sailor signaling with semaphore flags. German soldiers firing machine gun. Wehrmacht eagle and swastika on his helmet. German cavalry on horseback. Hitler youth marching segueing into German army troops marching. German boys jumping segueing into German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 transport planes. Likewise, German youth receiving award turns into German soldier receiving Iron Cross medal. Similar transition leading to German Luftwaffe pilot donning helmet in airplane cockpit. A Junkers 87 Stuka dive bomber taking off from a grass field. Formation of 6 Stukas in flight overhead. German Hitler youth cheering. A line of German Heinkel He 50 dive bomber aircraft parked side-by-side with engines running, on an airfield and then in loose formation flying overhead. Low flying German airplanes laying down smoke screens. Heinkel He 60 float planes dropping ordnance in water. View from German Navy scout plane flying low past a German warship. Goering speaking again. Hitler reviewing marching troops. The German light Cruiser Königsberg. A German gunboat. A line of German warships in formation. Hitler casually rendering the Nazi salute from a balcony, as crowd below cheers him. Closeup of Adolf Hitler. Nazi storm troopers marching in nighttime torchlight parade. Hitler on a balcony with others, at night, as crowds below cheer.
Aftermath of World War II in Berlin, Germany. Trees and soldiers in the foreground as explosions occur in the countryside in Germany. German tanks strafed by Allies as explosion occurs and smoke rises.
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