German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, at the Christening ceremony for Edda Goering, the baby daughter of leading Nazi leader Hermann Goering and actress Emmy Sonnemann. Chancellor Hitler seated with Emmy Goering and Hermann Goering, before the start of the ceremony at Carinhall (Wucker 17268 Templin, Brandenburg) near Berlin, Germany. Chancellor Hitler plays with Goering's baby daughter Edda. The Christening or baptism ceremony begins, with Reich Bishop (Reichsbischof) Ludwig Müller presiding, and the Goerings with their baby, Edda, standing before him, along with the Godfather, Adolf Hitler, who's attention is focused on the baby.
Enthusiastic German audiences in and around the Berlin Sportpalast in Germany listen to Adolf Hitler speak as he harangues them about the Sudetenland issue. Interior views and exterior views of the Sportpalast. Scenes of German military on wartime footing: German Navy sailors marching, German warships at sea, and German Air Force aircraft in flight. Neville Chamberlain departing London for a last attempt at diplomatic settlement with Hitler, while at home, the British prepare for the worst, placing sandbags around government buildings, enlisting in the military, and generally preparing to defend themselves, if necessary. Adolf Hitler walking along a train platform with Benito Mussolini, who has arrived for the Munich summit meeting, followed by Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler. Munich street scenes with enthusiastic German crowds lining the sidewalks waving flags as Hitler and others proceed through the city streets in a motorcade. Prime Minister Chamberlain riding in an open car with Joachim von Ribbentrop, German ambassador to Great Britain. Chamberlain of Britain, Edouard Daladier of France, German officials, and Mussolini, entering the Führerbau, with their respective retinues. While the negotiations go on in Munich, a crowd gathers and cheers Mrs. Chamberlain, in front of 10 Downing Street, London. Crowd surrounds car carrying Prime Minister Chamberlain, cheering in belief that his mission to Munich was a success. The Chamberlains appear on a balcony amidst cheers from London residents.
Union workers gathered in Flint Michigan, 1937, with a sign reading: "We've just begun to fight!" View of an Army truck, with a uniformed National Guardsman atop, manning a Browning M1917 machine gun mounted on a tripod. It drives past the Fisher Body factory, where striking workers, who have occupied the plant are seen looking out the windows. View from factory of National Guardsmen setting up machine guns outside. View from behind two Guardsmen, in battle gear, directing a machine gun from a high point along the factory roadway. Closeup of a machine gun crew setting up. Camera view looking directly into muzzle of the machine gun. Women and children watching the troops. Crowd of supporters waving at the strikers. Several women pass a basket of food to the strikers through a window. Strikers receiving cigarettes and one talking with his wife through a window. A striker lowers his child back down to his wife, after a visit with Daddy. Union workers marching along street, carry a banner of the new local 236 of the UAW (CIO) established on March 3, 1937, for workers at the L. A. Young Spring and Wire Corporation. Former sit-in strikers at the Fisher Body plant are seen outside,with family and friends, celebrating a contract after the 44-day ordeal. A crowd with banner reading: "GM Today, Ford Tomorrow." Several views of union workers from different industries, marching. In one, workers carry a coffin labeled "The Open Shop." Workers walking and waving in front of Chrysler's Desoto plant on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. More views of C.I.O. union workers in gatherings.
Damage caused by 1937 flood in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. A heavy loss of property due to a flood. Supplies being unloaded from trucks for the people. People being rescued from the areas affected by flood. Men aboard boats moving through buildings on the edge of the Ohio River that are submerged in water. Men moving a wooden casket. Destroyed houses and buildings in the areas. Flooded streets. A weather vane blowing briskly in wind. Narrator details how the weather bureau forecasts the weather and offers the information to help prevent losses from such disasters. Automatic typing machine records weather instrument readings. View of newspapers being printed at a printing press. A radio tower. People gather near injured flood victims. People lined up on the street to get supplies. Scenes of floodwaters below Memphis where flooding was effectively contained. Water rushing under the then new Bonnet Carre spillway of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Man opens a book published in Lisbon in 1605, now in the Library of Congress, written by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, reporting on the exploration team of De Soto on leaf 300 of the book. De Soto's group, in 1543, reported on the flood they saw below current day Memphis, extending over 20 leagues of land, covering the tops of trees, but not overrunning the homes of the Native Americans who build shelter atop high poles. A view of submerged homes in the 1937 flood are shown as the narrator laments that more modern people did worse than the Native American Indians.
Scenes in Paris, France during the 1937 "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne" (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life). Traffic on streets with Arc de Triomphe in the background. Eiffel Tower of Paris and grounds of the 1937 Expo in distance beyond. Crowd around Eiffel Tower and visitors riding on compact train cars or a transport trolley to view sites. Fountains of Gardens of Trocadero in distance. Camera pans from ground to top of Eiffel Tower. Next views show the Soviet Pavilion on left, with bronze statue "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" by Vera Mukhina. German Pavilion by Albert Speer is seen on right with Eagle symbol atop. Views of other pavilions and buildings at the Exposition. (Amateur home movie.)
The first phase of German assault on France and the Low Countries during World War II. The main part of the Battle of France campaign beginning 10 May 1940. Massive columns of German soldiers lined up in Berlin. Hundreds of young soldiers in uniform. Close-ups of some German soldier faces. An animated map depicts the movement of the English and French Armies across the French city of Lille towards the Ruhr Area in Germany. Allied vehicles move to meet the German advance. British Expeditionary Force troops, French, Belgian, Dutch, and colonial troops move to the front in railroad train cars, trucks, and on foot. Allied soldiers on motorbikes on a street. Soldiers stand guard at a check post. Tanks, military trucks and motorbikes cross the check post. The convoy moves along. Troops in a train. Tanks on the streets. Soldiers on tanks. Hundreds of Allied French and British soldiers march ahead in France. Soldiers man artillery and guns. Soldiers use detonators to set off explosions.
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